# EIT Manufacturing

> EIT Manufacturing is a VC fund backing Manufacturing. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palaiseau, France
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eit-manufacturing/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/EITManufactur
- Website: https://eitmanufacturing.eu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EIT-Manufacturing-344556279642937

EIT Manufacturing is a VC fund in Palaiseau focused on Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence. EIT Manufacturing creates a community of professionals and companies related to manufacturing. It is based in Palaiseau, France.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $117k–$5M |
| Grant | $11k–$457k |
| Pre-Seed | $155k–$2.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| Energy | 1 | 11% |
| Robotics | 1 | 11% |
| Software | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Grant | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 1 | 11% |
| Turkey | 1 | 11% |
| Austria | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Klaus Beetz | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klaus-beetz |
| Jean François Duroch | Director of Innovation Pillar | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-fran%C3%A7ois-duroch |
| Kevin Lenehan | Director of Investments | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-lenehan-cc17 |
| Mircea Ilie | EIT NEB Startup Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mircea-ilie-cb80 |
| Tamara Carleton | Moonshots Program Advisory Board Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tamara-carleton-dccc |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CERPRO | CERPRO helps reimagining the future of production using artificial intelligence, and cloud computing technologies. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Beespenser | Beespenser is a technology-driven startup revolutionizing the printed electronics industry with its flagship product, Monobee—a multifunctional dispensing device designed for rapid, precise, and scalable circuit production on flexible and rigid surfaces. Monobee integrates inkjet dispenser supporting advanced materials such as silver, graphene, andinsulative inks.The company operates on a B2B model, catering to R&D companies, laboratories, academic institutions, and industrial manufacturers in sectors like IoT devices, sensors, flexible electronics, and energy storage systems. Beespenser’s innovative solutions aim to reduce reliance on outsourced production, accelerate R&D, and enable sustainable, localized manufacturing. Supported by strategic partnerships with Sabancı Holding and accelerator programs like İTÜ Çekirdek and Sabancı ARF, Beespenser is positioned to lead in the global electronics market. | $117.1K | Seed | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Holy Technologies | Holy Technologies’ ambition is to make composite manufacturing autonomous. From prototyping to serial production, the company helps manufacturers build radically better lightweight components, fast and at scale.Lightweight components are essential to reduce fuel use, boost range, and improve efficiency across industries. Yet the materials thatmake this possible, composites, remain slow and costly to produce, often relying on manual labor. Holy Technologies solves this with an end-to-end, software-driven workflow. Powered by AI and robotics, it covers design, production, and recycling while providing a competitive alternative to overseas production and enabling sovereign, reliable manufacturing in Europe.Since 2022, Holy Technologies has built a fully operational pilot line, secured offtake agreements for thousands of components, and partnered with leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in automotive, motorsports, industrial tools, and orthopedics. Its technology addresses around 80% of parts in the 105 billion USD composite market and accelerates the wider adoption of composites across industries. | $5M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| RoboTwin | RoboTwin s.r.o. develops innovative products for motion imitating robotics, focusing on easy robot teaching for tasks such as spray painting, powder coating, grinding, sanding, and polishing. The company aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) efficiently robotize their production processes. RoboTwin's smart robot teaching toolallows workers to directly teach robots the required motions, making automation more accessible and practical for various manufacturing applications. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| BeChained | We built a AI-powered software platform for business consumers and aggregators to efficiently manage their flexible distributed resources. So, clients benefit from cutting costs and emissions, and improve their sustainable impact. Our ultimate goal is to decarbonise the energy system, avoiding to use of fossil fuel power plants during unexpectedpeak moments.BeChained acquires the right to manage resources to curtail unnecessary consumption at businesses installations. We build a large network of capacity from demand flexibility.We take this flexibility and provide it in the electric market through aggregators. So that we help grid operators avoid to use polluting plants, while generating new revenue streams for our customers.What differentiates us is our software platform: with blockchain, we dynamically certify businesses' carbon footprint and generate CO2 credits from sustainable innovation. With AI, we manage production scheduling for bottom lines, so that we can reduce up to 35% the consumption and 20% the GHG emissions. On top of that, our clients now have metrics to make business strategic decisions, based on actual consumption measurements. | $400K | Grant | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| phine.tech GmbH | phine.tech combines the best of IT and telecommunications. Our vision is to simplify 5G and accelerate the development of 5G Use Cases, especially in robotics and manufacturing. Our solution, the Virtual 5G Lab, provides a developer-friendly 5G Lab as a Service, offering hands-on exploration of 5G capabilities. | $154.7K | Pre-Seed | Jan 08, 2025 |  |
| Algbio | Clean-tech, Climate-Tech, Deep-tech | $10.5K | Grant | Dec 01, 2024 |  |
| STILFOLD | STILRIDE develops sleek electro-mobility devices based on sustainable industrial origami LIGHTFOLD. | $457.2K | Grant | Apr 29, 2024 |  |
| RESONIKS | RESONIKS delivers AI-acoustic inspection in seconds, detecting hidden defects 60× faster and 71% cheaper than CT. Our patent-pending technology enables fully automated, zero-defect manufacturing by turning sound into actionable data for OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers in automotive, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does EIT Manufacturing invest in?

EIT Manufacturing invests primarily in Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence and Energy startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is EIT Manufacturing's check size?

EIT Manufacturing typically joins rounds of $117k–$5M at Seed, $11k–$457k at Grant and $155k–$2.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds EIT Manufacturing participates in.

### How do I contact EIT Manufacturing?

Public channels for EIT Manufacturing include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at EIT Manufacturing?

The team at EIT Manufacturing includes Klaus Beetz (CEO), Jean François Duroch (Director of Innovation Pillar) and Kevin Lenehan (Director of Investments). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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