Kyrok announced that it has raised €3.1 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI operating system for supply chain teams at pharmaceutical and chemical SMEs.
The round was led by Speedinvest, with participation from Arve Capital, the family office behind pharmaceutical packaging company Sanner, and several industry and technology investors.
Additional investors included Dr. Marcell Vollmer, former Chief Procurement Officer at SAP; Dr. André Heeg, Managing Director and Partner for Pharma and Healthcare at BCG; Dr. Stephan Rohr, CEO of TWAICE; Langdock founders Jonas Beisswenger, Tobias Kemkes, and Lennard Schmidt; and Rodrigo Martinez through HelloWorld.
Founded in 2025 by Daniel Hofinger and Lukas Bierfreund, Kyrok is building an AI application layer that sits on top of existing ERP systems without requiring system migration.
The Berlin-based company is focused on pharmaceutical and chemical SMEs, where many supply chain teams still rely on legacy ERP systems, spreadsheets, and manual workflows.
Kyrok said its operating system gives teams a modern interface where industry-specific AI agents help with recurring workflows while employees remain in control of decisions.
The company’s first module is built for customer service teams, supporting order intake and other industry-specific processes. Kyrok plans to add modules for production planning, material planning, and procurement.
Kyrok said several pharmaceutical and chemical SMEs are already using the system in a pilot phase. The company said the platform captures more than 80% of complex orders without errors and significantly reduces time spent on routine tasks.
All data is stored in a GDPR-compliant way on European infrastructure in Frankfurt am Main.
The new funding will be used to continue developing Kyrok’s operating system, build additional modules, and scale the company’s Berlin team.
KEY QUOTES:
“We visit production sites where order lists are printed out in the morning, carried into the next room and typed back into another system. The people doing this work are extraordinary, holding disjointed systems together by hand. They deserve tools from this century. Our goal is to make a concrete contribution to a competitive European SME sector.”
Daniel Hofinger, CEO and Co-Founder of Kyrok
“Kyrok takes a huge amount of work off our shoulders. We get back the time we need for the things that genuinely matter to our customers. What convinced me is that the system makes suggestions, but the final call stays with the employee who carries the responsibility.”
Christoph Staub, CEO at Konapharma
“Kyrok brings an impressive depth and breadth of industry knowledge. In my 14 years at SAP, I rarely saw software teams reach that level. What Daniel and his team have delivered in only a few months shows enormous potential for Europe’s industrial base.”
Dr. Marcell Vollmer, Former Chief Procurement Officer at SAP
“Traditional ERP systems mainly just manage data. Kyrok intelligently connects data, processes and knowledge. It captures valuable experience that lives in the minds of our people and turns it into scalable, AI-supported workflows. For a chemical SME like ours, this is a decisive step towards the next generation of process management and towards securing the future of manufacturing in Germany.”
Frank Fürst, General Manager at AnalytiChem
“Daniel and Lukas have already shown that they can make industrial companies more competitive through technology. With Kyrok, they are modernising an entire sector without taking it offline to do it. That is exactly the kind of leverage Europe needs to keep its SMEs competitive and its pharma and chemical supply chains resilient.”
Florian Obst, Partner at Speedinvest
