IPercept
About
About IPercept
IPercept provides motion-based diagnostics and predictive maintenance for CNC machines. A device fitted to a machine’s moving structure measures its behaviour without connecting to the controller or factory IT network. Its customers include Airbus, Bosch, Hitachi Energy, Scania and Volvo.
Funding
- 2026-09-29 - Series A - $16.5M - IPercept raises $16.5M Series A for motion-based industrial diagnostics
Completed financing supports its robotics and industrial technology business. - source: techfundingnews.com
- 2025-05-05 - Funding round - IPercept raises EUR5 million to expand predictive machine monitoring
Luminar Ventures led the financing to expand IPercept's manufacturing analytics business in Europe. - source: ipercept.io
- 2022-03-15 - Funding round - IPercept secures SEK5.5 million for machine diagnostics
The financing supports software development and sales of its industrial machine-monitoring service. - source: news.cision.com
Investors
- AI.Fund - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-05-05 - latest 2026-09-29
- J12 Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-05-05 - latest 2026-09-29
- Luminar Ventures - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-05-05 - latest 2026-09-29
- RunwayFBU - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-05-05 - latest 2026-09-29
- 2150 - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-29
- Almi Invest - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-15
- Backstage Invest - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-05-05
- Isogon Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-29
Team
- Karoly Szipka - Founder and CEO - Leads commercial expansion and the development of motion-based CNC diagnostics, including the planned US sales and deployment expansion.
- Andreas Archenti - Co-founder - Co-led the KTH research that produced IPercept's automatic machine-condition assessment method.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-29 - Funding - IPercept raises $16.5M Series A for motion-based industrial diagnostics
Luminar Ventures, RunwayFBU, J12 Ventures and AI.Fund participated. The company reports more than thirty enterprise customers, including Airbus, Bosch, Hitachi Energy, Scania and Volvo. IPercept previously raised a €5 million seed round in May 2025.
Source - 2026-04-14 - Partnership - IPercept partners with MTT on predictive CNC maintenance in the UK
MTT brings 25 specialist engineers and nationwide CNC service coverage. The device requires a 24 V supply and approximately 45 minutes of installation time, with software configured per machine.
Source - 2026-02-19 - Product Launch - IPercept introduces CNC Copilot for machine-maintenance decisions
The assistant combines health indicators, vibration trends, alarms, collisions and root-cause analyses with verified manuals and procedures. It records investigation reasoning and conclusions so technicians and later shifts can continue the same troubleshooting workflow.
Source - 2026-02-12 - Partnership - IPercept signs CNC-monitoring collaboration with Sheffield AMRC
Smart Devices and Online Services will be installed on selected CNC machines at the AMRC. Work covers component health, process stability and evaluation of predictive maintenance strategies.
Source - 2026-02-03 - Partnership - IPercept signs Quant Gulf agreement for CNC condition monitoring
The announced plan covers 200 critical CNC machines during 2026. IPercept described potential agreement revenue of up to EUR10 million. Quant Gulf operates from Dubai across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Source - 2025-05-05 - Funding - IPercept raises EUR5 million to expand predictive machine monitoring
RunwayFBU, Backstage Invest, AI.Fund and existing investor J12 participated. The proceeds support entry into European manufacturing hubs, additional customer installations and recruitment. Following its 2022 commercial launch, IPercept reported serving more than a dozen major European manufacturers.
Source - 2025-03-31 - Partnership - IPercept partners with DynaMate on machine maintenance
The collaboration focuses on complex metalworking and processing machines. DynaMate provides nationwide specialist machine-service and metrology expertise.
Source - 2024-05-22 - Partnership - IPercept and Konecranes launch Smart Monitoring in Finland
The joint offering was already in use by its first Finnish customer. Konecranes planned to present Smart Monitoring at Pohjoinen Teollisuus on May 22-23.
Source - 2022-03-15 - Funding - IPercept secures SEK5.5 million for machine diagnostics
Almi Invest contributed SEK2.5 million, with private investors also participating. The initial service combined a retrofit sensor, analytical software and a customer dashboard. The technology commercialised five years of KTH research into wear in machine tools, industrial robots and cranes.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Machine Tool Technologies
Partner - IPercept and Machine Tool Technologies combine CNC condition monitoring with UK maintenance services.