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Juna.ai

juna.ai

Juna.ai builds autonomous AI software that plans, controls, and optimizes industrial factory operations.

HQBerlin, Not applicable, Germany
Employees11-50
Funding$7.5M
Valuation$9.6M
3 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
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Not classified
Business
Software Applications
Market
Manufacturing
Ecosystem
Agents
Customers
Enterprises
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Agents
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Manufacturing
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Seed
Reported funding amount
$1M-$10M

About

Juna.ai builds the Agentic Factory OS, an AI platform whose agents plan, steer, and improve industrial processes in real time. It sells to manufacturers operating complex factories, differentiating through autonomous process control aimed at improving output, margins, energy efficiency, and environmental performance.

Market

Juna.ai competes in industrial AI, autonomous process control, and factory-optimization software for heavy and resource-intensive manufacturing. It positions the Agentic Factory OS as a full-loop, multi-agent operating layer—not merely a dashboard or point solution—that connects fragmented factory data and uses self-learning and reinforcement-learning agents to plan, steer, and continuously improve processes. Its differentiation is the combination of customer-specific control policies, real-time operational action, cross-system semantic integration, and simultaneous optimization of output, efficiency, and emissions.

Target Customers

Juna.ai targets large-scale, asset- and energy-intensive manufacturers in industries such as steel, cement, paper and pulp, chemicals, wood, textiles, glass, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and industrial manufacturing. Its likely buyers and internal champions are plant operations, process-engineering, production, and energy/sustainability leaders seeking higher throughput, yield, utilization, and quality while reducing energy use and emissions.

At a Glance

Problem

Industrial manufacturers often operate with fragmented IT and OT data, dispersed operational knowledge, and process variation that makes optimization slow and reactive. The resulting pain is economic: lost throughput and production stability, excess energy and raw-material consumption, higher emissions, and costly off-spec output. Juna’s main use cases are continuous process control, energy optimization, and quality troubleshooting—for example, monitoring energy consumption, identifying inefficiencies, acting on day-ahead price opportunities, and tracing quality deviations back to raw materials, process conditions, or operator actions.

Product / Service

Juna provides an Agentic Factory OS: an AI platform that connects to existing plant IT and OT systems, creates a unified Factory Graph of assets, processes, material flows, and sensors, and deploys specialized agents for functions such as process engineering, energy management, and quality. Its Factory Foundation, Factory Chat, and Factory Agents are designed to give industrial teams operational context without replacing live production systems or requiring extensive setup.

The agents work continuously on live plant data, detecting anomalies, checking process parameters and SOP compliance, investigating root causes, generating reports, and recommending or supporting corrective actions with traceability and human-in-the-loop control. Juna reports benefits including higher throughput and stability, lower energy costs and emissions, faster root-cause analysis, and reduced off-spec production; these figures are company-reported rather than independently verified.

Market

Juna competes in industrial artificial intelligence, autonomous process control, and AI-enabled manufacturing and energy-optimization software, particularly for energy-intensive production. Its stated target industries include chemicals, food and beverages, cement, pulp and paper, glass, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and broader industrial manufacturing. The available research does not name direct competitors, so Juna’s relative competitive position cannot be assessed beyond this category description.

There are signs of commercial traction: Juna describes its agents as proven in production across industries, cites a customer testimonial from Deutsche Gasrußwerke, and advertises a library of more than 250 agent templates. Dealroom lists the Berlin company as launched in September 2024, with 11–50 employees and an estimated enterprise value of $30–45 million. The evidence does not provide revenue, customer-count, or funding figures, so it is not possible to classify Juna as pre-revenue; the strongest conclusion is that it appears to have early production deployments but limited publicly disclosed traction metrics.

Founders & Leadership

Matthias Auf der MauerFounder
Founder
Christian HardenbergFounder
Founder

Funding History

2024-11
Seed$7.5M

Kleiner Perkins, Norrsken VC, John Doerr, Ellipsis Ventures

Recent News

2026-10-03funding
Juna AI reports a $7.5 million seed round

Norrsken VC's October 3 investment note described Juna AI as having fresh $7.5 million seed funding, led by Kleiner Perkins and including Norrsken VC. Juna AI's own funding announcement also identifies the round as $7.5 million.

2026-06-25product_launch
About Juna AI | Enterprise Security And Data Protection

Juna published an enterprise-focused update describing direct connections to ERP, MES, historians, PLCs, and sensors. It says customers do not need to replace existing systems or clean all data upfront.

2026-03-11other
Juna AI Recognized by Gartner in Two Major Research Publications

Juna announced recognition in two Gartner research publications. The announcement describes Juna as a Berlin-based company building an Agentic Factory OS for orchestrating industrial AI agents.

Active Roles

3

Business Model

Juna.ai appears to operate as a B2B enterprise SaaS company, providing manufacturers with a hosted AI platform through subscription-based industrial software contracts. Public evidence does not show a standard self-serve or per-seat price list.

Products

Agentic Factory OSAgentic Process Control platformAI Agents for industrial process optimizationProcess Engineering AgentBackground agents for KPI monitoring, shift reporting, quality analysis, and operational alertsIndustry-specific solutions such as AI agents for cement kiln and clinker production

Customers

Deutsche Gasrußwerke

Tech Stack

Autonomous AI agents and agent orchestrationReinforcement learning for control-policy trainingCustom AI models built with TensorFlow and PyTorchReal-time sensor and industrial process data processingNative integrations with PLC, SCADA, process historians, MES and ERP systemsSemantic data layer for contextualized factory-wide operations data

Competitors

Siemens
ABB
Emerson
C3 AI
Phaidra

Key Investors

Kleiner Perkins, Norrsken VC, John Doerr