UMH
Manufacturing & Industrial Software · Industrial IoT (IIoT)
2open roles
Venture roundlatest round · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
3backers · Freigeist Capital, Growth Capital Management GmbH
10+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Standardize industrial data across sites and systems to reduce costs, improve efficiency and accelerate execution. Open-source, deployed at production sites across Europe, live in weeks.
How UMH hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
UMH scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Latest round
Venture round
Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
3
Freigeist Capital, Growth Capital Management GmbH
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
fresh money, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 14
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 21, 2024
On the Hacker News front page AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner · 131 points
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
10
best: 131 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2026 | — | — | handelsregister.de |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | UMH Systems GmbH | its site |
| Registered | 16 Feb 2021 |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Alexander KrügerVertreten durchcompany's site
Niklas HebbornVertreten durchcompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$101k
Typical range
$90k – $112k
Open positions
2
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $112k | $112k |
Highest paying role
Product Engineer (f/m/d) | 70-100k EUR | Cologne
$112k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~7 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
50% ▼
Backend
25% ▼
Industrial Engineering
25% ▼
Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
People
Alexander Krüger
Vertreten durch
Niklas Hebborn
Vertreten durch
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at UMH over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
7
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
76/100
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Apache Kafka
Grafana
Redpanda
Developer tools
MQTT
OPC UA
Docker
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Connections
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Shared investors
Freigeist CapitalVia a fund
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News
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UMH Insights What is MQTT? Why Most MQTT Explanations Suck-and Our Attempt to Fix Them
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UMH Insights Integrating the Unified Namespace into Your Enterprise Architecture: An Architect's Guide
The article delves into the different data requirements of frontline workers and business analysts, the roles of OLTP and OLAP databases, and the concept of Lambda Architecture for managing large volumes of real-time and historical data.
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UMH Insights Why designing your own IT / OT infrastructure is harder than you might think - 10 Pitfalls and how to avoid them
Navigating the design of IT/OT infrastructure without MQTT, Kafka, and Kubernetes? We embarked on that journey too and confronted numerous challenges. Our hope is that our experiences can provide you with insights towards better solutions.
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UMH Insights United Manufacturing Hub Relicensed to Apache 2.0: Our Offering for System Integrators And Other Vendors In The Industrial IoT
We're excited to announce that the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) is switching from AGPL to the Apache 2.0 license. This change will give system integrators and other vendors more freedom to create their own services and products on top of UMH, leading to
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UMH Insights Comparing MQTT Brokers for the Industrial IoT
Are you looking for the best MQTT broker for your IoT or IIoT project? In this technical comparison, we evaluate four popular options: Eclipse Mosquitto, VerneMQ, EMQx, and HiveMQ. We consider factors such as reliability, scalability, and maintainability
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UMH Insights Historians vs Open-Source databases - which is better?
OSIsoft PI, Canary, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB and Ignition - the number of tools you can use to store your data from your machinery is endless. This article provides an overview of historians and open source time series databases.
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UMH Insights Tools & Techniques for scalable data processing in Industrial IoT
The industry is shifting from use-cases to being technology driven. We provide a look behind the United Manufacturing Hub and into our experiences for tools & techniques for data processing.
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UMH Insights An introduction into certificates and secure communication in IoT for normal people
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cologne
Cologne
Germany
HQ
4 open roles 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff $101k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Industrial Engineering