Munich-based environmental administration and compliance platform Tanso has closed a Sequence A spherical of €12 million to develop its workforce into extra international locations, and to develop additional product modules for provide chain, compliance, and threat administration.
The spherical was led by worldwide VC corporations henQ and Fortino Capital, with participation from present buyers Capnamic and UVC Companions.
“With the brand new funding, we’ll now double down on: Increasing Tanso with new modules for provide chain, compliance, and threat; Implementing new use instances for Tanso AI Copilot and deeper integration; Rising our ecosystem associate community in DACH and past; Establishing Tanso because the European class chief for industrial firms,” mentioned Co-founder and CEO Until Wiechmann in a public announcement.
Based in 2021 by Until Wiechmann, Gyri Reiersen and Lorenz Hetzel, Tanso affords a cloud-based answer for environmental administration and compliance automation. The Tanso software program helps manufacturing industrial firms meet environmental necessities alongside their provide chain and cut back compliance prices.
Tanso is an built-in sustainability software program for carbon accounting and ESG information administration. The platform allows the structured assortment, exact calculation, and focused optimisation of sustainability metrics – supported by AI-powered information administration and clever suggestions.
For manufacturing industrial firms, the stress to interact in lively environmental and compliance administration is growing considerably: with obligatory sustainability reporting on the EU degree (e.g., the Company Sustainability Reporting Directive, “CSRD”), the communication of sustainability KPIs within the areas of surroundings, social, and governance is turning into a part of monetary reporting – topic to auditor evaluation and board legal responsibility.
On the identical time, main prospects in industries resembling automotive, meals, or chemical compounds are growing stress on their suppliers to actively interact in sustainability administration within the space of decarbonisation and to report usually on progress.
As a knowledge administration and analytics software program, Tanso reportedly builds on present firm techniques and creates a centralised management view for sustainability and compliance. This allows firms to centrally plan transformation tasks resembling investments in decarbonisation measures, handle them primarily based on information, and successfully observe progress.
The software program is presently utilized by over 300 firms from varied industries in additional than 40 international locations, together with Kärcher, Duravit, the Paulaner Group, and Goldbeck.
Case research embody:
- Wheat starch producer Crespel & Deiters saves 75% in sustainability processes.
- Böllhoff establishes information administration for sustainability processes in additional than 40 international locations.
- Motorsport provider Pankl AG ensures full compliance with the EU CSRD.
- Automotive provider FEP optimizes environmental KPIs at product degree with Tanso and secures a aggressive edge in tenders from main OEMs.
