Munich-based environmental administration and compliance platform Tanso has closed a Collection A spherical of €12 million to develop its group into further international locations, and to develop additional product modules for provide chain, compliance, and threat administration.
The spherical was led by worldwide VC companies henQ and Fortino Capital, with participation from present traders 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 companion 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 presents 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 permits 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 necessary sustainability reporting on the EU degree (e.g., the Company Sustainability Reporting Directive, “CSRD”), the communication of sustainability KPIs within the areas of setting, social, and governance is changing into a part of monetary reporting – topic to auditor assessment and board legal responsibility.
On the identical time, main prospects in industries corresponding to automotive, meals, or chemical substances are growing stress on their suppliers to actively interact in sustainability administration within the space of decarbonisation and to report usually on progress.
As an information administration and analytics software program, Tanso reportedly builds on present firm methods and creates a centralised management view for sustainability and compliance. This permits firms to centrally plan transformation initiatives corresponding to investments in decarbonisation measures, handle them based mostly on information, and successfully monitor progress.
The software program is at the moment 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 embrace:
- 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.

