Orq.ai Raises €5 Million to Close the AI Production Gap for Enterprises

Orq.ai, the all-in-one platform to build reliable LLM apps, led by Sohrab Hosseini and Anthony Diaz, has secured raised €5 million in seed funding, led by Seed + Speed Ventures and Galion exe, with continued support from Curiosity VC, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck, bringing the total funding to €7.3 million since the company’s founding in 2022. Strategic advisors joining include industry leaders such as Sam Bourton (QuantumBlack and McKinsey), Adriaan Mol(Mollie), and Daniel Gebler (Picnic), supporting Orq.ai’s expansion into advanced enterprise and data governance capabilities.

The new Agent Studio and managed runtime enable precise agent design with configurable behaviors, workflows, and decision rules, supported by full auditability and governance. Agents run reliably across cloud, hybrid, or self-hosted environments through a single platform that removes execution-layer complexity. As Alexander Kölpin notes, AI agents are becoming a new enterprise software layer, and Orq.ai is building the infrastructure required to orchestrate and govern them.

Most teams can produce an impressive AI demo, but production deployment is where progress stalls. Common blockers emerge, such as uncertain agent behavior, fragmented tooling, limited observability, and burdensome governance requirements. These issues slow iteration and push engineering teams to rebuild foundational infrastructure on their own. With this platform, deployment moves 67% faster, and more than 10% of engineering capacity is unlocked by eliminating the need to recreate core systems.

“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. This platform provides the harness to enable that control.” — Sohrab Hosseini, Co-founder of Orq.ai.

The new funding round advances platform expansion with Agent Runtime and accelerates development of a new AI Studio designed for faster experimentation and collaboration.

Orq.ai provides a unified control layer that centralizes quality, compliance, financial impact, and product metrics within a single environment.

Its infrastructure-agnostic architecture enables enterprises to operate AI across cloud, hybrid, or fully on-prem deployments without trade-offs.

“Enterprises are no longer experimenting with AI out of curiosity. They want fast implementation, yet many remain stuck when real systems must move into production. Orq.ai delivers the solution to those challenges, as it does for us. It accelerates development daily and is accessible even to non-technical profiles. Orq’s unified agent-lifecycle platform shortens iteration time, reduces friction, and brings stability to deploying agents at scale.” — Kevin Kuipers, Founding Partner of Galion.exe

More than 100 organizations across Europe and the US, including Afas, MoneyBird, Keyrus, and Helloprint, rely on Orq.ai to bring AI systems into real production. These teams accelerate delivery, maintain strong control, and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and data.

“Leading enterprises have moved past experimentation. Their focus is production. Orq.ai provides the stable foundation to scale AI agents reliably.” — Herman Kienhuis, Curiosity VC