Bonx raises $8.6M to build the AI-native ERP for manufacturing

We’re pleased to announce that Bonx has raised an $8.6 million seed round, about €7.3 million, led by 9900 Capital with participation from Kima Ventures, Purple, OSS Ventures, and Dynamo Ventures. The funding will help us grow the product and customer teams, deepen the AI capabilities inside Bonx, and expand further into Italy and Spain.

Our why is simple: mid-sized manufacturers are being asked to move faster, prove more, trace more, coordinate more suppliers, and absorb more complexity with software that was built for another era.

Here’s why we raised, what we are building next, and why we believe the world needs a different model for manufacturing ERP, now.

The old ERP model is not keeping up with modern manufacturing

For 40 years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has made the same basic bargain with manufacturers: accept the long project, accept the consultants, accept the rigid configuration, and eventually the business will get control. That bargain stopped making sense for a lot of manufacturers.

The companies we work with are not static factories. They add product lines, warehouses, sales channels, subcontractors, quality rules, and supplier constraints while production keeps running. They use tools their teams already trust, from Shopify and HubSpot to Pennylane and Sidely. They cannot freeze the business for 12 months while an ERP project turns yesterday's process map into tomorrow's bottleneck.

Today, production teams keep spreadsheets because the ERP is too slow to change. Operators write notes on paper because the system doesn’t reflect the realities of their business. Finance, sales, and operations reconcile different versions of the same order because the software never quite connected the flow of work.

Manufacturers deserve better than a system that becomes useful only after the team has done the work somewhere else.

Bonx is built for a different operating model

Bonx is an AI-native manufacturing ERP. It covers the operational backbone of manufacturing, including order management, inventory, purchasing and supplier management, planning, production, quality, and logistics, while connecting to the finance, CRM, e-commerce, and accounting tools already in the stack.

The difference is not just faster implementation, although speed matters. Bonx customers go live in 1 to 3 months, not 12 to 18. Case in point: Féroce deployed Bonx in 42 days before a national TV appearance multiplied orders tenfold in a single day, and every package stayed traced and shipped to the same standard. Something Added deployed in 2 months with a native integration to HP 3D printers, then moved to 24/7 production capacity through automated scheduling.

The deeper shift, aside from speed of deployment and flexibility that puts the ERP back in the hands of manufactures, is that Bonx is a system of action. Instead of waiting for people to make decisions and record them afterward, it can generate manufacturing orders, prepare procurement suggestions, schedule production, and trigger routine operational work under human supervision. Bottom line: Bonx is here to make your operations more efficient, bringing them into the age of AI.

At L'Atelier du Ferment, where fruit kefir volumes were doubling every year across four workshops, Bonx connects operations with Sidely and Pennylane while supporting full batch traceability across more than 100,000 bottles. The system helps generate manufacturing orders and procurement suggestions based on sales, shelf life, and cold storage capacity.That is the operating model we are scaling: software that fits the factory, connects the existing stack, and takes routine work off the team's plate instead of asking the team to serve the database.

Why now?

Industry is full of companies with real know-how, but who are plagued with bad software that’s a burden to the business. These companies need systems that can handle the operational detail of manufacturing and, at the same time, can liberate them from tedious, manual work that their systems should be doing.

We’ve seen this is true in France, Italy and Spain, three manufacturing economies where Bonx is already present and where demand for modern operational software is clear. The seed round gives us more room to support that demand properly: more product depth, more customer support, and more local execution as we expand.

At Bonx, success is not about implementing software, but elevating people. We work so that the production manager who can trust the stock view. So that the buyer sees shortages before they become line stoppages. So that the operator updates the system during their shift because doing so actually helps the business run smoother, not to check a box. We do what we do so that CEOs  know they can grow without adding a layer of manual coordination every time the business wins.

What we are building next

This seed round gives us the means to move faster without changing what made Bonx work in the first place. We will keep investing in the operational depth manufacturers need: stronger planning, purchasing, inventory, traceability, quality, logistics, and production workflows. We will keep improving the AI layer so Bonx can take on more routine operational work under supervision, with the right human decisions kept visible.

We will also keep building around the reality that manufacturers already have tools they rely on. Bonx becomes the operational backbone around those tools, connecting the factory and keeping the flow of work moving.

The ERP industry taught manufacturers to accept too much pain as normal. At Bonx, we firmly believe that long implementation timelines are not normal, that heavy consultant dependence is not normal, that operators avoiding the system during real work is not normal, and that rebuilding the same planning spreadsheet every week because the ERP cannot be trusted is not normal. It is just familiar.

Bonx exists to make manufacturing easier for people. AI is changing the world, and we believe it will also change the manufacturing industry for the better. We believe that an ERP should help your team run the business, not just serve as a system of record. This seed round helps us bring this mission and our vision to more factories across Europe and around the world.