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The Hamburg-based startup plancraft, which offers software for craft businesses, has completed a Series B financing round worth 38 million euros. The fresh capital will primarily be used to develop AI-supported functions and expand the team.

© plancraft: the founders Richard Keil (CTO), Julian Wiedenhaus (CEO) and Alexander Noll (CPO)
© plancraft: the founders Richard Keil (CTO), Julian Wiedenhaus (CEO) and Alexander Noll (CPO)

Strong growth thanks to multi-million-euro financing

The lead investor is Headline, one of the foremost venture capital firms with offices in Berlin, Paris, San Francisco and Tokyo. Existing investors such as Creandum, HTGF and xdeck also participated in the round. plancraft's total financing rises to over 50 million euros; previous financing rounds amounted to 1.9 million euros and 12 million euros. Since the Series A round in June 2024, plancraft has more than doubled its team from 40 to over 100 employees. The company now has teams in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Italy. To support further growth, the startup is intensifying its search for for product and AI experts.

© plancraft
© plancraft

AI to play a key role at plancraft

Artificial intelligence is set to play an increasingly important role in plancraft's software. The aim is to develop AI that is so intuitive that language is the only tool needed to operate it. Building on this, plancraft is developing its product roadmap beyond today's language functions towards comprehensive AI automation. The vision: AI agents that actively take over customer communication, create individual offers and optimise business processes. This allows construction professionals to concentrate on their core work while the software takes care of the administration.

© plancraft: Julian Wiedenhaus (CEO)
“Europe's construction workforce is under unprecedented pressure - aging demographics, skills shortages, and the urgent need for climate retrofits demand dramatic efficiency gains. We don't just want to digitalize skilled trades - we want to fundamentally change how they operate, so businesses don't drown in administrative work while the real building suffers.”
Julian Wiedenhaus, CEO of plancraft

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