Former Kuka boss Till Reuter joins Spread

Reuter becomes an angel investor in the Berlin start-up. The manager has invested several million euros with others.

Till Reuter, CEO of industrial robot manufacturer Kuka until 2018, joins Spread as a business angel. The Berlin-based start-up produces assembly instructions and software for visualizing machines. Among other things, the software can generate 3D animated models of engines on which all individual parts can be recognized. Mercedes, Porsche and Volkswagen are among the Berlin-based company's customers.

In addition to Reuter, the Berlin VCs Cavalry and La Famiglia as well as the former Microsoft manager Charles Songhurst and the initiator of the Founders Foundation Sebastian Borek have already invested a total of 2.9 million euros in Spread. "The complexity that engineers have to manage today and in the future, for example to get a car on the road, is enormous," Reuter told the Handelsblatt.

"It is high time to provide them with an intelligent and networked tool for this. Such a solution has enormous potential not only in the automotive industry, but for all companies that build complex products. In the future, I am convinced that the software will also become a key technology for robotics thanks to its intelligent product understanding."