GEA and RebelDot announce joint venture to accelerate digital innovation in the process industry

GEA and RebelDot, a leading Romanian technology company, are forming a strategic joint venture to accelerate digital transformation in the global process industry. The joint venture – named “RebelDot Process Industries” will be headquartered in Cluj, Romania, and will launch in January 2026. The new company will focus on delivering specialised software development services – including web, mobile, and AI solutions – tailored to the needs of industrial customers.

The joint venture combines GEA’s deep process industry expertise with RebelDot’s excellence in software engineering to help process industry and mechanical engineering companies accelerate the development, scaling, and operation of their digital solutions. Customers will benefit from shorter product time-to-market, greater development efficiency, and cost-effective operations through modern DevOps practices. GEA has also assigned a dedicated software engineering team at RebelDot to collaboratively develop Artificial Intelligence solutions. This includes the GEA Copilot®, which acts as an assistant for customers’ maintenance teams to fulfill their service tasks.

RebelDot is one of Romania’s most dynamic technology companies, headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, a major European tech hub. The company achieved 40 % growth in both revenue and headcount in 2024, now employing more than 300 professionals.

RebelDot enjoys a strong reputation among young tech talent and maintains close ties with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Through the acquisition of a specialist AI firm, RebelDot has also expanded its expertise in artificial intelligence, enabling the joint venture to support OEMs in exploring AI-driven applications and solutions.

GEA operates a large industrial cloud platform in the process industry – the GEA Cloud®, which connects more than 10,000 units of process equipment worldwide. The collaboration with RebelDot enables faster development cycles, greater agility, and access to specialised expertise, building on GEA’s open-source software strategy. Earlier in 2025, GEA became a member of the Eclipse Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation supporting open-source software collaboration and innovation. Both GEA and RebelDot Process Industries will develop open-source-ready code and actively contribute to the process industry software community.

One example is project “Sealman”, which provides an open-source IIoT connectivity stack to machine builders. It helps OEMs focus on developing digital customer solutions while standardising and simplifying equipment connectivity to their own cloud systems. Building on this open and collaborative approach, the new joint venture becomes an ideal partner for OEMs and industrial companies looking to develop scalable, future-proof software for an open digital ecosystem in modern production environments.