Tacto Raises $5.3 Million to Digitalize Industrial Supply Chains in the Mid-Market

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• Munich-based tech startup Tacto raises $5.3 million in a seed funding round from Cherry Ventures together with UVC Partners and Visionaries Club, as well as business angels Hanno Renner (Personio), Michael Wax (Forto), Johannes Reck (GetYourGuide), and Torsten Reil (Helsing)

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• Founded in 2020, the company develops AI-based software for industrial procurement that already manages several hundred million dollars in procurement volume for the production of medical devices through manufacturing machinery

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• The funds will be invested in further developing the software and expansion, to support additional mid-sized manufacturing companies in the digital, intelligent, and sustainable transformation of their supply chains

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Munich, March 22, 2022 - Munich-based software company Tacto has raised $5.3 million from investors in a seed funding round to digitalize procurement and supply chains in the industrial mid-market. The funding round was led by Cherry Ventures together with UVC Partners and Visionaries Club and was supported by business angels Hanno Renner (Founder, Personio), Johannes Reck (Founder, GetYourGuide), Michael Wax (Founder, Forto), and Torsten Reil (Founder, Helsing).

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Manufacturing companies are currently affected by massive disruptions in global supply chains. The recovering economy has filled most companies' order books, but production cannot keep up due to material shortages. In 2021 alone, this caused more than $38 billion in damages.¹ Procurement is the interface to a company's entire supply chain.

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“We work with the backbone of the German economy, the mid-market, to jointly transform industrial procurement digitally, intelligently, and sustainably,” says André Petry, co-founder of Tacto.

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On average, industrial companies spend about 50% of their revenue on purchased parts.² As products become more sophisticated and supply chains more complex, procurement must ensure the on-time, quality-compliant, budget-conforming, and sustainable delivery of thousands of parts. Existing tools are usually too expensive for mid-sized companies, implementation takes too long, and outdated technologies lead to dissatisfaction among employees.

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“With Tacto, we are significantly advancing the digitalization of our procurement: thanks to the software that all employees can operate, we are moving away from Excel-based processes toward fully digitalized procurement. Just a few months after implementation, we were already able to identify significant savings potential,” says Matthias Schlotter, Head of Procurement at Schwäbische Werkzeugmaschinen.

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The AI-based software solution provides customers with a transparent overview of their procurement activities, reveals strategic savings potential and risks, and automates manual tasks in sourcing and supplier management. In this way, Tacto helps its customers transform procurement and thus the supply chain to be future-proof.

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“We are convinced that Tacto can develop into a market leader for procurement software in mid-sized companies. Through directly achievable cost savings in procurement as well as more resilient supply chains in the long term, the use of Tacto pays off from day one,” says Christian Meermann, Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures. “The Tacto team combines a strong technical background with a deep understanding of mid-sized manufacturing companies to work on one of the most pressing problems of our time: managing global industrial supply chains. With all its hidden champions, Germany is the perfect location to build the leading software solution in industrial procurement.”

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Sources 

[1]: ifo Institute Munich, https://www.ifo.de/node/65936
[2] VDMA: https://www.vdma.org/einkauf-materialwirtschaft

Munich-based tech startup Tacto raises $5.3 million in a seed funding round from Cherry Ventures together with UVC Partners and Visionaries Club, as well as business angels Hanno Renner (Personio), Michael Wax (Forto), Johannes Reck (GetYourGuide), and Torsten Reil (Helsing)