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Avenue Managed Services LLC and Findustrial announced a collaboration that gives OEMs and system integrators one route to offering their equipment as a service in the United States: from the first commercial concept, through the financing, to a program that runs.
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In an online session hosted by Business Upper Austria, Findustrial co-founder Martin Gruber explained how a narrowly missed EIC Accelerator grant turned into ERDF funding for the Findustrial platform, and what other companies can take from it.
Findustrial’s founders Günter Hehenfelder and Martin Gruber have been appointed senators of the SENAT DER WIRTSCHAFT Austria. Chairman Hans Harrer and senior representative Stefan Unterweger presented the certificates at Findustrial.
Komptech is expanding its business model: with Equipment-as-a-Service, customers no longer pay for machine ownership - but for actual usage. Powered by Findustrial.
Skiing in the morning, Equipment-as-a-Service in the afternoon: on 11 March 2026 Findustrial hosted customers and partners in Schladming for the EaaS Pioneers Summit, with talks on refinancing, contracts and three years of practice with an as-a-service model.
The founder of the intralogistics pioneer deepens his long-standing relationship with Findustrial, underscoring the importance of scalable financial infrastructure for Equipment-as-a-Service models.
In episode 5 of the P2S Management Consulting podcast, host Florian André talks with Martin Gruber (Findustrial), Cyprian Bruck (Linxfour) and Kurt Miller (Energy Partners) about the real economics of Product-as-a-Service: contracts, financing and operating models that make outcome-based offers work at scale.
Findustrial has been awarded the GEWINN Best Young Entrepreneurs Award 2025 in the Circular Economy category. The recognition highlights our role in building the financial and operational backbone for scalable Equipment-as-a-Service models, turning circularity into a viable, repeatable business model.
Business Upper Austria's Mechatronik-Cluster brought TRUMPF, AGILOX, Findustrial and Bridge Corporate Finance together at AGILOX in Neukirchen bei Lambach to look at as-a-service models from a technical, organisational and financial angle.
Findustrial and iSYS have entered into a strategic technology partnership to further advance the Findustrial platform. The collaboration focuses on strengthening platform stability, scalability, IT security, and seamless integration with downstream leasing and ERP systems, laying the foundation for robust and future-proof industrial financing solutions.
With support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Findustrial is further developing its digital platform to enable equipment manufacturers to scale Equipment-as-a-Service business models and transition to recurring, usage-based revenues.
The Seal of Excellence is the European Commission's quality label for project proposals that score top marks in Horizon Europe competitions but cannot be funded from the call budget. Findustrial received it in 2025 for its Equipment-as-a-Service platform project, which is now co-financed with 1.7 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund, as reported by brutkasten.
In a Finance Connect webcast sponsored by Lendscape, Findustrial CEO Günter Hehenfelder discussed with lenders and manufacturers how usage-based financing for manufacturing equipment becomes reality.
Findustrial and Lendscape form a strategic partnership to enable Pay-Per-Use and Equipment-as-a-Service financing based on actual machine usage. The joint solution integrates data-driven Pay-Per-Use models with asset finance software, allowing manufacturers and financial institutions to offer flexible, usage-based equipment financing.
Felix Wortmann, Heiko Gebauer, Claudio Lamprecht and Elgar Fleisch explain how the internet and AI turn product companies into service providers, with 66 actionable product-service patterns. Published by Emerald, 2024; German edition at Campus, 2023.
Company profile with CEO Günter Hehenfelder: an IoT-based financial platform that enables subscription business models for industrial customers.
The Austrian trade magazine for sheet metal processing on why usage-based models such as pay-per-use and Equipment-as-a-Service matter for production sites under cost pressure.
The third edition of the FinTech Rising Stars Report by FinTech Innovators profiles almost 100 young FinTech and InsurTech companies from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Findustrial is in it with a two-page profile on pay-per-use and Equipment-as-a-Service financing.
Podcast episode with co-founder Martin Gruber: how Findustrial supports equipment makers and operators, why usage-based financing is the future, and what the latest investment means.
With the strategic investment of PS Team around founder Peter Schmehl, Findustrial gains a partner that has run its own pay-per-use software since 2018. The existing investors extend their financing to secure further growth.
Technology Innovators Media Group named Findustrial founder and CEO Günter Hehenfelder one of the Top 25 FinTech CEOs of 2022 and told the Findustrial story in the edition.
Findustrial and ACP Digital, the digital business unit of the ACP Group, joined forces to take industrial companies from a first roadmap to a running pay-per-use model: consulting, a shared technology platform and digital services in one package.
In the German trade journal FLF Finanzierung Leasing Factoring, Matthias Ainz of Findustrial explains why manufacturers and lenders struggle with usage-based models and how an independent digital platform lowers the barrier.
Findustrial closes a further financing round in the seven-figure range. Among the new investors is Bamberger GmbH around payment entrepreneur Christian Bamberger. The capital goes into internationalisation, new markets and the pay-per-use platform.
At the Asset Finance Connect UK Conference Awards 2021 in London, an independent expert panel named Findustrial FinTech Innovator of the year.
The German Design Council named Findustrial's platform for industrial fintech a Winner of the German Innovation Award 2021 in the class Excellence in Business to Business.
Upper Austria’s daily newspaper reports on the first project in which a machine’s own usage data determines the repayment, realised with Inocon and Sparkasse Oberösterreich.
The Austrian industry publisher looks at Findustrial’s platform shortly after launch: subscription logic from the consumer world, transferred to industrial machines.
In an online session hosted by Business Upper Austria, Findustrial co-founder Martin Gruber explained how a narrowly missed EIC Accelerator grant turned into ERDF funding for the Findustrial platform, and what other companies can take from it.
Avenue Managed Services LLC and Findustrial announced a collaboration that gives OEMs and system integrators one route to offering their equipment as a service in the United States: from the first commercial concept, through the financing, to a program that runs.
Findustrial’s founders Günter Hehenfelder and Martin Gruber have been appointed senators of the SENAT DER WIRTSCHAFT Austria. Chairman Hans Harrer and senior representative Stefan Unterweger presented the certificates at Findustrial.
Komptech is expanding its business model: with Equipment-as-a-Service, customers no longer pay for machine ownership - but for actual usage. Powered by Findustrial.
Skiing in the morning, Equipment-as-a-Service in the afternoon: on 11 March 2026 Findustrial hosted customers and partners in Schladming for the EaaS Pioneers Summit, with talks on refinancing, contracts and three years of practice with an as-a-service model.
The founder of the intralogistics pioneer deepens his long-standing relationship with Findustrial, underscoring the importance of scalable financial infrastructure for Equipment-as-a-Service models.
Findustrial has been awarded the GEWINN Best Young Entrepreneurs Award 2025 in the Circular Economy category. The recognition highlights our role in building the financial and operational backbone for scalable Equipment-as-a-Service models, turning circularity into a viable, repeatable business model.
Business Upper Austria's Mechatronik-Cluster brought TRUMPF, AGILOX, Findustrial and Bridge Corporate Finance together at AGILOX in Neukirchen bei Lambach to look at as-a-service models from a technical, organisational and financial angle.
Findustrial and iSYS have entered into a strategic technology partnership to further advance the Findustrial platform. The collaboration focuses on strengthening platform stability, scalability, IT security, and seamless integration with downstream leasing and ERP systems, laying the foundation for robust and future-proof industrial financing solutions.
With support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Findustrial is further developing its digital platform to enable equipment manufacturers to scale Equipment-as-a-Service business models and transition to recurring, usage-based revenues.
The Seal of Excellence is the European Commission's quality label for project proposals that score top marks in Horizon Europe competitions but cannot be funded from the call budget. Findustrial received it in 2025 for its Equipment-as-a-Service platform project, which is now co-financed with 1.7 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund, as reported by brutkasten.
In a Finance Connect webcast sponsored by Lendscape, Findustrial CEO Günter Hehenfelder discussed with lenders and manufacturers how usage-based financing for manufacturing equipment becomes reality.
Findustrial and Lendscape form a strategic partnership to enable Pay-Per-Use and Equipment-as-a-Service financing based on actual machine usage. The joint solution integrates data-driven Pay-Per-Use models with asset finance software, allowing manufacturers and financial institutions to offer flexible, usage-based equipment financing.
With the strategic investment of PS Team around founder Peter Schmehl, Findustrial gains a partner that has run its own pay-per-use software since 2018. The existing investors extend their financing to secure further growth.
Technology Innovators Media Group named Findustrial founder and CEO Günter Hehenfelder one of the Top 25 FinTech CEOs of 2022 and told the Findustrial story in the edition.
Findustrial and ACP Digital, the digital business unit of the ACP Group, joined forces to take industrial companies from a first roadmap to a running pay-per-use model: consulting, a shared technology platform and digital services in one package.
Findustrial closes a further financing round in the seven-figure range. Among the new investors is Bamberger GmbH around payment entrepreneur Christian Bamberger. The capital goes into internationalisation, new markets and the pay-per-use platform.
At the Asset Finance Connect UK Conference Awards 2021 in London, an independent expert panel named Findustrial FinTech Innovator of the year.
The German Design Council named Findustrial's platform for industrial fintech a Winner of the German Innovation Award 2021 in the class Excellence in Business to Business.
In episode 5 of the P2S Management Consulting podcast, host Florian André talks with Martin Gruber (Findustrial), Cyprian Bruck (Linxfour) and Kurt Miller (Energy Partners) about the real economics of Product-as-a-Service: contracts, financing and operating models that make outcome-based offers work at scale.
Company profile with CEO Günter Hehenfelder: an IoT-based financial platform that enables subscription business models for industrial customers.
The Austrian trade magazine for sheet metal processing on why usage-based models such as pay-per-use and Equipment-as-a-Service matter for production sites under cost pressure.
Podcast episode with co-founder Martin Gruber: how Findustrial supports equipment makers and operators, why usage-based financing is the future, and what the latest investment means.
Upper Austria’s daily newspaper reports on the first project in which a machine’s own usage data determines the repayment, realised with Inocon and Sparkasse Oberösterreich.
The Austrian industry publisher looks at Findustrial’s platform shortly after launch: subscription logic from the consumer world, transferred to industrial machines.
Felix Wortmann, Heiko Gebauer, Claudio Lamprecht and Elgar Fleisch explain how the internet and AI turn product companies into service providers, with 66 actionable product-service patterns. Published by Emerald, 2024; German edition at Campus, 2023.
The third edition of the FinTech Rising Stars Report by FinTech Innovators profiles almost 100 young FinTech and InsurTech companies from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Findustrial is in it with a two-page profile on pay-per-use and Equipment-as-a-Service financing.
In the German trade journal FLF Finanzierung Leasing Factoring, Matthias Ainz of Findustrial explains why manufacturers and lenders struggle with usage-based models and how an independent digital platform lowers the barrier.
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Short: Findustrial is the operating system and transformation partner for Equipment-as-a-Service. The platform lets equipment manufacturers offer their machines as a service, bill them by usage and refinance them with institutional partners, and the Findustrial team guides them from the first pilot to fleet scale. Founded in 2020 in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria.

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Long: Founded in 2020 in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria, Findustrial is the operating system and transformation partner for Equipment-as-a-Service. The company helps equipment manufacturers in mechanical engineering and robotics turn machines into a service business: the platform handles usage-based pricing, billing, asset management and refinancing, the Pioneer Program guides manufacturers through the three phases Explore, Build and Scale, and a refinancing network including Erste Bank, RIL and Linxfour provides the capital. More than 50 manufacturers, among them Komptech, AGILOX and Lindner, work with Findustrial.

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