An estimated €2.5 trillion sits locked away in idle inventory, while another €200 billion in perfectly usable parts is scrapped each year. The reason is data fragmentation, and a Berlin-based Resourcly believes it has an answer. The Techstars alumni have built an AI-powered platform designed to harmonise industrial parts data, eliminate redundancies, and reintroduce hidden inventory into circulation.
The company just secured €2.7 million in Seed funding, led by Project A, with participation from Knut Alicke (former McKinsey Partner), Philip Harting (CEO of HARTING), Gregor Stühler (Scoutbee CEO), FIEGE Ventures, and existing investors like D11Z Ventures, Prequel VC, and former executives from SAP, VW, and Siemens.
The investment will accelerate its mission to make manufacturing leaner, more transparent, and ultimately more profitable.
Unlocking trapped value in manufacturing
Co-founders Helena Most and Ian Draxten came together after careers at Bosch, Carl Zeiss, and WAGO, where they experienced the inefficiencies of legacy inventory systems firsthand.
Most explained to TFN, “My co-founder and I both worked at leading industrial manufacturers, where we experienced firsthand how a lack of harmonisation across portfolios and inventories leads to inefficiencies, tied up capital, and even scrapped parts.”
Resourcly’s mission is to help industrial giants reframe inventories from a static cost centre into a dynamic, value-generating asset. The platform doesn’t demand sweeping infrastructure overhauls: manufacturers simply upload their inventory data via CSV files, and Resourcly’s AI engine takes over, identifying duplicates, flagging alternatives, and harmonising details across systems.
Most elaborated, “Resourcly bridges the long-standing gap between engineering and purchasing – two worlds that often operate in silos. Our AI-powered data standardisation engine harmonises technical and commercial data across systems, giving both teams a shared, accurate view of all parts and materials.”
She added, “By analysing similarities and identifying equivalent or compatible components, Resourcly reduces unnecessary variants, enables reuse, and simplifies sourcing decisions. From there, it evolves into a marketplace that lets companies monetise excess parts and source critical components from others, forming a flywheel of liquidity and intelligence that becomes stronger with every new customer.”
For customers, that translates to reduced sourcing costs, faster production timelines, and liquidity from reselling or sharing unused parts through secure industry networks. Clients like Sandvik, Kärcher SE, and Schwäbische Werkzeugmaschinen already report improvements in transparency, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
What’s next?
Just a year after a €750K pre-seed round, the startup has grown revenue fivefold. With fresh funding, Resourcly plans to expand engineering, product, and sales teams, and to push deeper into integrations with large-scale enterprise systems.
“Resourcly is tackling one of manufacturing’s biggest inefficiencies: millions in wasted long-tail parts tying up inventory. It’s a problem ignored for too long, and they’re building the solution at exactly the right time,” said Florian Heinemann, Project A Founder & General Partner.
For Most and Draxten, the vision is clear: a future where no usable component sits idle. “I’m a big believer in results – they cut through bias and speak for themselves – my advice: stay focused, deliver, and let your work speak for itself,” Most said.
She concluded, “In two years we want to be the category leader in AI-based Shared Inventory, closing the gap between Engineering & Purchasing to improve profitability while closing the loop for improve availability, helping manufacturers across the globe to improve profitability from day one with a circular approach, that’s something, no other startup can prove so far.”
