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Founded 2015 · 64 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
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Cybus develops Connectware, a "Factory Data Hub" software that connects operational technology (OT) with IT to collect, standardize, process, and distribute real-time production data across factories. It serves manufacturing companies implementing Industrial IoT use cases such as traceability, condition monitoring, energy management, and predictive maintenance.
Also known as Cybus GmbH
Investors · 5
How we know: Matterwave Ventures's portfolio page · the VCSheet dataset · Not right? Tell us
Also in the syndicate · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries AApr 2022
PwC Germany (lead), PwC Holdings Germany GmbH (lead), btov Industrial Technologies Fund
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountseed fundingJun 2016
Pfannenberg
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Cybus is a German industrial software provider whose product Connectware is positioned as a "Factory Data Hub" — a central data infrastructure that connects operational technology in production with enterprise IT, applications and other systems. Connectware collects, standardizes, processes and distributes production data, giving manufacturers a single source of machine, energy and building-management data across sites.
The software is described as a technology-neutral layer with a composable architecture and code-based configuration, intended to allow rollouts across additional use cases and production locations. Cybus emphasizes handling of high data loads with low latency, avoidance of data loss, and a secure-by-design approach based on a decoupled microservice architecture with access-rights management. The company also frames a stable data infrastructure as a prerequisite for adding AI applications, assistants and agents to manufacturing operations. Related concepts referenced in Cybus content include Unified Namespace, MQTT, OPC UA, event-driven architecture and software-defined manufacturing.
Business model
Cybus licenses its Connectware software to manufacturing companies, which deploy it as an in-house data infrastructure layer and implement industrial IoT use cases largely on their own; the website directs prospects to request a quote.
Traction
Publicly referenced customers include Porsche (Leipzig and Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen plants), the CLAAS Group (standardizing shopfloor data at up to eight sites), the KRONE Group and its Green Teuto Systemtechnik greenfield factory in Ibbenbüren, Deutsche Nickel GmbH (first use cases live after six weeks), SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG, GRIMME Landmaschinenfabrik, the IFB of the University of Stuttgart, plus unnamed automation-technology and food manufacturers using real-time energy data.
Latest developments
Recent company content covers software-defined manufacturing and factory planning, a multi-site shopfloor data standardization project with the CLAAS Group, a data foundation for lightweight-construction research at the University of Stuttgart's IFB, an event-driven smart factory build-out with KRONE, and podcast appearances by Peter Sorowka and Stefan Hermann on Unified Namespace and software-defined manufacturing.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Positioned as a technology-neutral IT/OT integration and industrial IoT data platform used by named industrial manufacturers, including large enterprises running multi-site rollouts.
Cybus highlights vendor and technology neutrality to avoid lock-in and technical debt, scalability through composable code-based configuration, high availability under heavy production data loads, and a secure-by-design decoupled architecture.
Technology
Connectware is a vendor-neutral industrial connectivity and data-processing software with a composable, microservices-based architecture, code-based configuration, access-rights management, and support for industrial protocols and messaging concepts such as MQTT, OPC UA and Unified Namespace, enabling omnidirectional global data flow across factories.
Go-to-market
Direct sales of the Connectware platform supported by published customer case studies, news articles, podcasts, webinars and industry events; integration into partner ecosystems such as the ADAMOS HUB is also referenced.
Manufacturing and industrial companies, including automotive, agricultural machinery, metals, food production and automation-technology producers, as well as academic production-research institutes.
Geography
Customer deployments cited are primarily in Germany, including Leipzig, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Ibbenbüren and Stuttgart; the software is described as supporting data flow across multiple factories globally.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsThe CLAAS Group uses Cybus Connectware as a Factory Data Hub to standardize production data at up to eight locations.
Deutsche Nickel GmbH deployed Connectware as a central data architecture, with first use cases live after six weeks.
Cybus Connectware is used to connect IT and OT at the Porsche plants in Leipzig and Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.
The KRONE Group implements the greenfield factory of Green Teuto Systemtechnik GmbH in Ibbenbüren using an event-driven architecture with Cybus Connectware.
SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG uses its production data in applications such as WERKBLiQ via the ADAMOS HUB with support from Cybus.
The Institute of Aircraft Design (IFB) at the University of Stuttgart digitizes complex lightweight-construction processes with a central data foundation for transparency, quality and traceability.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- Cybuscybus.io · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Cybus do?
- Cybus builds Connectware, a Factory Data Hub that links factory OT systems with IT applications via real-time data.
- Who are Cybus's investors?
- Cybus's investors include Matterwave Ventures.