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Electronics industry specialists

Inventing what comes next in electronics.

We listen to industry experts and to stakeholders along every step of the supply chain, then build solutions with and for the electronics industry.

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precision, at scale

Sparring partner across the supply chain

PCB & PCBA

Bare-board fabrication and assembly sourcing — from prototype runs to series production, and the specification details that decide a quote.

Engineering Sourcing Software

Components

Semiconductors, passives and electromechanics: parametric data, availability, lifecycle status and compliance documentation.

Data Compliance Software

Supply chain

Distribution, marketplaces and procurement workflow — how a BOM actually turns into orders, and where it stalls.

Commercial Integration Software
Any topic above, from any angle — we can support and spar on it. Talk it through with us →
Where we come from

More than a decade in electronics.

We did not arrive at this industry from the outside. We came up through EMS and PCB supply chain, built software the industry uses every day, and kept running into the same gap.

2013

Coming up through EMS

Hardware development, test automation and PCB supply chain at mikromess and beyond. We learned this industry from the shop floor.

2019

Founding Electronic-Fellows

Our own company, and Stackrate: the only web-based DFM software on the market, used by hundreds of PCB and EMS companies.

2021

Acquired by Luminovo

Stackrate and the team joined Luminovo, one of the leading software companies in the electronics supply chain.

Five years

Building an ecosystem

Leading PCB and building the partner ecosystem — hundreds of conversations with suppliers, distributors and manufacturers.

2025

Starting Automates

Those conversations kept pointing at the same gap: distributors and component manufacturers had no software of their own. So we started building.

2013

Coming up through EMS

Hardware development, test automation and PCB supply chain at mikromess and beyond. We learned this industry from the shop floor.

2019

Founding Electronic-Fellows

Our own company, and Stackrate: the only web-based DFM software on the market, used by hundreds of PCB and EMS companies.

2021

Acquired by Luminovo

Stackrate and the team joined Luminovo, one of the leading software companies in the electronics supply chain.

Five years

Building an ecosystem

Leading PCB and building the partner ecosystem — hundreds of conversations with suppliers, distributors and manufacturers.

2025

Starting Automates

Those conversations kept pointing at the same gap: distributors and component manufacturers had no software of their own. So we started building.

What comes next

We are developing several applications for the electronics supply chain. Distrify and mLink are the first two.

Each one starts the same way: a conversation with people who know their part of the chain better than we ever will, and a gap nobody has bothered to close.

Our applications

Two products, one thread.

Distribution

Distrify

The infrastructure layer for component distributors — one place to organise their catalogue, sell it, and automate the daily work around it.

  • 01 Structured, enriched component data with full traceability
  • 02 Distribution and marketplace reach from one source of truth
  • 03 Quoting and order workflow your customers can self-serve

Every product starts with a conversation.

We talk to founders, owners and the people who carry the decisions — and keep talking to them while we build. Most of what exists today started as a problem someone described honestly over a call.

01

A real conversation

Tell us how your business actually works and where it hurts. No pitch, no discovery template — we are as interested in the constraints as in the idea.

02

A shared view

We write down what we heard, what we would try first and what we would leave alone. You can take that anywhere, with or without us.

03

Build it together

Where it fits, we build alongside your team — sometimes as a product for you, sometimes as something we grow with you, the way Distrify started.

We would like to hear what you are working on.

Send us a short note or book a 30-minute call. We are happy to share what we have learned, whether or not it turns into a project.

hello@distrify.io
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Provider

Automates UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Fasanenweg 4
65321 Heidenrod, Germany

Represented by

Florian Herborn
Nils Minor

Register & VAT ID

Commercial register HRB 36192
VAT ID DE458118927 (§ 27a UStG)

Responsible for content (§ 18 (2) MStV)

Florian Herborn and Nils Minor
Fasanenweg 4, 65321 Heidenrod

Dispute resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.