Many enterprises want to leverage AI in mission-critical operations but remain stuck at the prototype stage. Challenges such as fragmented tooling, unclear governance, and difficulties maintaining AI system reliability once in production prevent scaling.
Amsterdam-based Orq.ai addresses this market gap by providing a unified platform that enables companies to build, test, deploy, monitor, and safely scale AI agents at enterprise scale.
“Most companies can build a great demo. The real challenge is getting that demo into production without losing control over quality, compliance, or costs. Orq.ai exists to close that gap,” said Sohrab Hosseini, Co-founder of Orq.ai.
Today, Orq.ai closed an oversubscribed €5 million seed funding round led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion.exe, bringing its total funding to €7.3 million. The fresh capital will fuel growth in engineering, enterprise sales, and customer support teams to accelerate Orq.ai’s push across Europe and North America.
Helping companies move beyond AI prototypes
Orq.ai was founded in 2022 by Sohrab Hosseini and Anthony Diaz to democratise the power of generative AI by creating a platform that enables engineers and non-technical teams to collaborate seamlessly to build reliable AI applications. The end goal is to close this crucial “prototype gap” and would allow enterprises to operationalise AI at scale, smoothly and securely.
Orq.ai’s Platform 4.0 supports over 300 large language models and supports flexible deployment across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, helping companies meet stringent EU AI regulations and GDPR data sovereignty demands.
The platform = integrates AI experimentation, evaluation, observability, governance, and runtime into a single, easy-to-use interface, reducing agent development time by 67% and freeing more than 10% of engineering capacity.
Unlike AutoGen and CrewAI, Orq.ai provides an enterprise control layer that enables secure, compliant AI operations across teams and environments. Its flexibility and scalability set it apart, enabling forward-thinking organisations such as Afas, MoneyBird, Keyrus, and Helloprint to transition from isolated AI experiments to large-scale operational deployments.
What’s next?
The new investment will help Orq.ai grow its 25-person team, especially in engineering, enterprise sales, and customer support. The company plans to strengthen its presence in Europe and speed up its expansion in North America.
“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,“ notes Alexander Kölpin, Managing Director, seed + speed Ventures.
TFN reached out to Orq.ai to comment on the team’s diversity.
