Circonomit in the media

Creditreform Magazin presents Circonomit as a modelling toolkit that connects data, decisions and their impact on costs, production and supply chain. Using the Aachen family business PH Mechanik as an example, the article shows how scenarios are simulated and deviations from plan are spotted early.

In this founder interview, Dana Aleff explains how Circonomit makes dependencies along the value chain visible and talks about its value-based pricing. It also covers the seed investors and the next stage of the modelling toolkit.

TechQuartier names Circonomit its Community Member of the Month and tells how the first customer paid before a single line of code was written. It also covers the seed round, a pilot with Signal Iduna and the next version of the modelling toolkit.

digitalHUB Aachen congratulates its former incubation member Circonomit on its €2.8M seed round. The article describes how the team turns environmental and financial supply chain data into measurable KPIs.

WirtschaftsWoche reports the €2.8M seed round led by Vorwerk Ventures with Fund F and Push VC. The money goes into the product team and market entry in German-speaking countries.

Startup Rise reports on the €2.8M seed round led by Vorwerk Ventures with Fund F and PUSH VC. The focus is on how executives use Circonomit to quickly model the financial and environmental impact of their decisions.

IT BOLTWISE presents Circonomit as a modular toolkit that lets companies simulate scenarios and plan deviations, and contrasts its model-based approach with process mining. The seed funding goes into the product team and growth in the DACH region.

Dana Aleff describes pitching Circonomit to kindergarten children and what she learned for sales and communication: keep it simple and grab attention in the first sentences. The occasion is the €2.8M seed round.

Startbase reports the €2.8M seed round with Vorwerk Ventures, Fund F and PUSH VC. Circonomit is described as a strategic twin for industrial mid-sized companies that links scenarios, forecasts and KPIs.

StartingUp profiles Circonomit as a Cologne tech start-up whose modelling toolkit builds a strategic twin of the value chain and makes gaps between plan and actuals visible. With the new funding, the team plans to grow and win manufacturers in the DACH region.

Silicon Canals reports on the €2.8M seed round for the Cologne start-up, led by Vorwerk Ventures. The modelling tool helps decision-makers calculate interdependencies and respond quickly to deviations from plan.

WirtschaftsWoche features Circonomit as Start-up of the Week: a toolkit that lets leaders play through the financial and environmental consequences of their decisions. It also asks whether Frank Thelen would invest.

AddedVal describes Circonomit as a steering system for controllers and managing directors that makes links between KPIs and external factors visible ahead of time and complements Excel. It also tells the path from RWTH research to the first paying customer.

In this interview, Dana Aleff explains how Circonomit combines environmental and financial data for better decisions and how funding programmes in NRW helped. Her advice to founders: validate a real market problem first.

Circonomit is one of the ten winners of the WECONOMY 2023 founder competition, which focused on sustainability that year. The jury recognised a platform that brings environmental and economic goals together for industrial companies.

In the series on first bosses, Dana Aleff recalls repairing machines in the Australian outback at 18 and how her boss at the time encouraged her to study mechanical engineering. The piece also covers Circonomit's early days.