Orq.ai, the generative AI collaboration platform built for companies to build, deploy, and manage production-grade AI agents, has raised €5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round.
The round was led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion.exe, with continued backing from Curiosity VC, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck. The round brings Orq.ai’s total funding to €7.3 million since its founding in 2022.
With the new capital, Orq.ai will expand its 25-person team across engineering, enterprise sales, and customer success, while deepening its presence in key European markets and accelerating its North American growth. Additionally, strategic advisors and angel investors like Sam Bourton, co-founder of QuantumBlack/McKinsey, Adriaan Mol, founder of Mollie, and Daniel Gebler, CTO of Picnic, have joined to support Orq.ai’s growth into more advanced enterprise and data governance capabilities.
As Europe tightens requirements under GDPR and the upcoming EU AI Act, engineering teams need infrastructure that gives them full control over data flows, model behavior, and deployment environments. This shift has created demand for platforms that move beyond demos and into real production. Orq.ai addresses this by giving teams a unified control layer for the full agent lifecycle, enabling them to take AI systems from prototype to production with reliability and compliance built in. This approach has driven adoption across Europe and the US, with customers such as Afas, MoneyBird, Keyrus, and Helloprint.
Most enterprises have proven that they can build promising AI demos, yet few can reliably take them to production. Versioning breaks down, monitoring remains incomplete, governance is manual, and POCs fail once exposed to real data, real users, and real compliance requirements. This production gap is where Orq.ai has established its position.
Sohrab Hosseini, Co-founder of Orq.ai, said: “Engineering teams don’t just need more models; they need the infrastructure to industrialize how agents are built, improved, and deployed. 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.”
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While the generative AI tooling landscape is crowded with point solutions, Orq.ai has taken an end-to-end approach. It is the only platform that combines experimentation, evaluation, observability, an AI gateway, governance, and agent runtime into a single environment.
To deliver this, Orq.ai offers a suite of tools to help businesses streamline the entire agent lifecycle, from initial prompt engineering and experimentation to production deployment and ongoing performance optimization.
Key platform capabilities include:
- Agent Runtime for running agentic systems in production with consistency and auditability.
- AI Gateway for accessing 300+ models from 17 providers through a single unified API.
- Complete LLM and agent experimentation and simulation capabilities.
- Evaluation and monitoring for tracking all dimensions across performance drift, quality, costs, and compliance.
- Knowledge base integrations for enabling retrieval-augmented generation workflows.
- Infrastructure-agnostic deployment for operating across cloud, hybrid, or fully on-prem environments.
Orq.ai’s approach reduces agents’ development time by 67% and frees up more than 10% of engineering capacity, as teams avoid rebuilding foundational components from scratch.
As data governance requirements tighten, Orq.ai’s sovereignty-ready architecture gives enterprises the ability to run AI on their own infrastructure, meet residency obligations, and reduce reliance on external providers, a priority that is becoming increasingly important for regulated industries and the public sector. US customers benefit from the same flexibility, helping them deploy agents that can withstand real production demands.
As production AI matures and engineering teams increasingly adopt agent-based architectures, Orq.ai is positioning itself as the default control layer for operating agents at scale. Its full rebrand and redesigned platform experience further reflect this evolution, solidifying Orq.ai’s role as an enterprise-grade solution now used by more than 100 organizations.
Alexander Kölpin, Managing Director, seed + speed Ventures, said: “AI agents are becoming a foundational layer of enterprise and B2B software, much like cloud infrastructure in the last technology cycle. Companies will need a reliable way to orchestrate, govern, and scale these agents across operations, and Orq.ai is building the platform that will enable that shift.”
Kevin Kuipers, Founding Partner of Galion.exe, stated: “Enterprises are no longer experimenting with AI for curiosity. They want to move fast, but most teams struggle to push real systems into production. We believe Orq is the solution for their needs, as it is for us. It accelerates our development process daily and is even used by non-technical profiles. Orq’s unified agent lifecycle platform shortens iteration time, reduces friction, and brings stability to deploy agents at scale.”
