Amsterdam-based Orq.ai has raised €5 million in an oversubscribed seed
round led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion.exe, with continued support from
Curiosity VC, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and
GoldenEggCheck. The round brings the company’s total funding to €7.3 million
since its founding in 2022.
As regulatory requirements tighten under GDPR and the forthcoming EU AI
Act, enterprises are seeking infrastructure that gives them full control over
data flows, model behaviour, and deployment environments. This shift has
created growing demand for platforms capable of supporting operational,
production-grade AI rather than isolated demos or proofs of concept.
Orq.ai positions itself directly in this space, addressing what many
refer to as the industry’s “production gap.” While enterprises can often build
promising AI prototypes, few manage to run them reliably in real-world
environments. Versioning issues, incomplete monitoring, manual governance, and
POCs that fail under real data and compliance pressures remain common
obstacles.
To solve this, Orq.ai offers a unified control layer for the entire AI
agent lifecycle, enabling teams to move systems from prototype to production
with reliability and compliance built in.
Unlike many point solutions in the
generative AI tooling landscape, Orq.ai has taken an end-to-end approach,
combining experimentation, evaluation, observability, an AI gateway,
governance, and agent runtime in a single environment. Engineering teams can
develop, deploy, monitor, and improve agents without relying on disconnected
systems.
According to Orq.ai Co-founder Sohrab Hosseini, engineering teams’ needs
extend beyond access to new models; they need robust infrastructure that
enables them to industrialise the development and deployment of AI agents:
They want clarity on how agents behave, how
data moves through their systems, and how to stay compliant as the regulatory
landscape evolves. We provide them with the harness to have this control.
As data governance and sovereignty requirements intensify, Orq.ai’s
architecture is designed to allow enterprises to run AI on their own
infrastructure, meet residency obligations, and reduce reliance on external
providers, an increasingly important capability for regulated industries and
the public sector.
With the new capital, the company plans to expand its team across
engineering, enterprise sales, and customer success, deepen its presence in key
European markets, and accelerate growth in North America.