Synera

Synera is an agentic AI platform for engineering that lets industrial companies deploy teams of AI agents as digital engineers, autonomously executing complex product development workflows across the tools where the work actually happens. Founded in 2018 in Bremen, Germany as ELISE by Dr. Moritz Maier, Sebastian Moller-Lafore, and Daniel Siegel, a team that had worked together since 2006, the company rebranded Synera in 2022 as its scope grew beyond lightweight structure design. It raised a fourteen point eight million dollar Series A in 2022 led by Spark Capital and a forty million dollar Series B in April 2026 led by Revaia, with Capgemini, BMW iVentures, Cherry Ventures, and UVC Partners participating, bringing total funding to about fifty eight million dollars. It serves more than sixty enterprise customers across fifteen countries, including NASA, Airbus, BMW, Volvo Trucks, and Miele.

At its core is a low code visual editor where engineers assemble reusable workflows from modular nodes, connecting more than eighty CAD, CAE, CAM, and PLM tools from vendors like Siemens, Autodesk, PTC, and Altair into one automated pipeline. In 2025 Synera layered AI agents onto that engine: while the underlying workflows are deterministic, the agents interpret requirements, select and execute the right workflows, and run continuously, acting as what the company calls a digital engineering workforce, or JARVIS for engineers. Because the agents work inside the real toolchain rather than sitting beside it as a chatbot, they can carry a product brief through design, simulation, optimization, costing, and reporting. NASA has used Synera agents to turn requirements into validated part designs, running hundreds of design iterations in an hour.

A decisive strength for its target markets is on premises deployment: aerospace, defense, and automotive firms cannot send engineering intellectual property to third party clouds, so Synera runs agents inside the customer's own firewall, keeping proprietary data in house. The founders frame the shift as moving engineers from execution to judgment, overseeing agents that handle end to end workflows, and the company reports up to ten times faster development cycles and doubled annual recurring revenue in 2025. It is deep in one domain and does not offer choice of underlying model or general purpose agent tooling. For an industrial or hardware engineering organization that wants to automate real CAD, simulation, and PLM workflows on premises, Synera is a category leading option; a software only team or one without heavy engineering toolchains will find it outside its wheelhouse.