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Spanwerk

Raising Pre-seed

Fast, explainable quotes for CNC machining job shops, built straight from the customer's CAD file

3.3(3 reviews)Manufacturing AIStuttgart, Germany1 follower
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Overview

Problem

A typical German job shop with 20 machinists receives 40 to 80 requests for quotation a week, each with a STEP file and a PDF drawing. The owner or a senior machinist spends 30 to 90 minutes per quote working out setups, cycle times and material, so replies take four days and the shop wins only about one quote in six.

Solution

Spanwerk reads the 3D model and drawing, recognises features such as pockets, threads and tight tolerances, and estimates setups and cycle times on the shop's own machines using its past jobs. It produces a quote with a cost breakdown the estimator can adjust in minutes, and learns from every quote the shop wins or loses.

Target market

Europe has around 80,000 machining job shops, about 20,000 of them in German-speaking countries; most have 5 to 100 employees and still quote by hand or in spreadsheets.

Business model

Subscription per shop at €390 a month for up to 100 quotes or €890 for unlimited quotes and ERP export, with annual contracts for multi-site groups.

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Team

  • Lena AlbrechtCEO and co-founder
  • Murat YılmazCTO and co-founder
  • Rainer BrennerHead of Machining Data

Traction and funding

  • Pilot shops6
  • Quotes generated2,340
  • Median time per quote9 min (was 45)
  • Waitlist130 shops
Current roundPre-seed, raising €1.1MPrevious: Grant and angels €250K (2025)

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Product
3.3
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Potential
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  • Jonas Becker
    Verified demoCustomer

    Good on simple milled parts, not ready for our workshop

    We trialled it in our in-house machine shop for six weeks. It quoted single milled parts well, but roughly a third of our work is welded assemblies and it simply cannot handle those yet. The export to our older ERP failed, so the estimators were retyping quotes anyway.

    Reply from Lena Albrecht, CEO

    Weldments are on our roadmap for next year, and older ERP systems now have a CSV bridge. We'd welcome a second trial once both are live.

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  • Ravi Menon
    Industry observer

    Explainable estimates beat a black-box price

    Grounding each cycle-time estimate in the shop's own similar jobs, and showing which ones, suits people who will not trust an unexplained number. Feature recognition on the STEP files I tested was accurate for pockets and holes. Thin-wall parts were consistently underestimated.

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  • Priyanka Desai
    Investor

    Grounded team in a fragmented, overlooked market

    Lena grew up in her family's machine shop and Rainer has 30 years at the spindle, so the product speaks the language of estimators. Moving the win rate from 17% to 23% in a quarter is a strong early signal. The challenge will be selling efficiently to thousands of small shops.

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