Vlad Cazan and Adrian Dima returned to ZF IT Generation - Start-up Update for a conversation with journalist Ioana Nita. The discussion covered KFactory's 30% revenue growth in 2025, the restructured platform built around three modular products, and a deliberate shift of the centre of gravity towards the United Kingdom as a launchpad into US markets.
Growth, funding, and the international pivot
KFactory grew revenue by roughly 30% in 2025 and is approaching the EUR 1 million threshold. The founders confirmed they are seeking EUR 2-3 million in fresh capital, opening the conversation to strategic investors alongside the traditional venture path. With Romanian industrial output slowing, the team is consciously rebalancing the pipeline towards international markets - and the United Kingdom, described as the most mature ecosystem for industrial AI in Europe, is now the primary base for that push.
Three modular pillars, one data model
The platform has been restructured into three independently purchasable products that share one identity and one data model: Plan for constraint-based scheduling and capacity, Control for real-time operations execution across seven disciplines, and Intelligence for governed AI agents with bring-your-own-LLM. Customers can start with the single product that fixes their most painful problem and add the adjacent ones later without re-platforming - and the bundle discounts apply automatically when they do.
Agents take KFactory beyond manufacturing
The autonomous AI-agents capability inside Intelligence is what unlocks the move beyond discrete manufacturing. KFactory is now actively engaging field services, defence, retail and logistics operators - sectors where the same constraint-and-execution architecture applies. In conversations with defence-sector prospects, Vlad Cazan noted the platform can increase productivity by 20-25% within three to six months, on the strength of the manufacturing heritage and the data-handling model that keeps customer data outside the LLM itself.
The UK as a launchpad
The United Kingdom now anchors KFactory's international strategy on two fronts: a GBP 100,000 Innovate UK grant to develop the CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) compliance module, and access through the same programme to a structured route into US markets. Both moves position the company to be relevant for the next phase of European industrial digitalisation - the regulatory layer and the trans-Atlantic conversation - rather than only the historical Romanian one.
Read the full interview on ZF (Ziarul Financiar) - IT Generation: ZF IT Generation. Start-up Update. Vlad Cazan si Adrian Dima, fondatorii KFactory →
Original article was published in Romanian. The text above is an English summary of the source.