Stockholm-based Kovant, an autonomous enterprise platform that enables
businesses to create, run and manage entire operations and departments of AI
agents, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by
Stockholm-based VC firm J12 Ventures, with participation from Ampli, Green Ventures and a group of angel investors ranging from tech veterans to industry
leaders, including Sarah Öhrvall, board member at Axfood and Verisure, who will
also join the Kovant board, and Emmanuel Martin-Chave, VP AI at Data Guard.
Unlike copilots or isolated bots that only assist at specific points in a
workflow, Kovant provides managed agentic workforces, meaning teams of
specialised AI agents that can autonomously operate across functions such as
procurement, supply chain, inventory management, compliance and customer
success.
Kovant uses a novel architecture that allows enterprises to deploy swarms
of agents based on small language models (SLMs) rather than relying solely on
large, general-purpose AI models, which helps reduce the risk of hallucinations
and errors. Each agent operates within clearly defined guardrails to support
accuracy, auditability and compliance. Designed to be deployed within weeks
rather than months, Kovant’s agentic teams run continuously, learn over time
and escalate only when human input is needed.
Ali Sarrafi, CEO and co-founder of Kovant, explained:
Too often, AI is used in ways that strip the human element out of work.
We’ve flipped that. We’re pioneering a system where AI handles the execution so
people can focus on what actually needs human judgment. What matters to us is
real P&L impact, not building more agents or running endless POCs.
Something that can be achieved in weeks, not months.
Kovant’s current portfolio is already generating business value by
turning processes that previously took a month, such as procurement and
bidding, into autonomous executions completed within one to two days while
retaining human oversight. The company is now launching globally, making its
platform available to enterprises of all sizes and across markets.
With this funding, Kovant plans to expand its
presence across the Nordics, Switzerland and the Benelux region. This expansion
supports the company’s goal of helping enterprises adopt agentic-first
operations, where AI workforces execute end-to-end business functions under
full governance, compliance and human oversight.