Optiak announced that it has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding to build what it describes as an operating layer for enterprise AI deployments.
The company is developing a platform designed to help organizations run, govern, secure, observe, and continuously improve AI systems across their businesses. Optiak’s goal is to give enterprises a single framework for deploying AI across any model, tool, application, copilot, or agent without forcing them into a specific vendor ecosystem.
Optiak said enterprise AI adoption is becoming increasingly fragmented as companies experiment with disconnected applications, copilots, and agents across teams and departments. While these tools can improve productivity, they often create operational challenges for IT, security, data, and compliance teams. These challenges include limited visibility into how AI tools are being used, inconsistent governance policies, gaps in security controls, duplicated data flows, and growing exposure to shadow AI.
The company’s platform is intended to address these issues by giving enterprises one central place to configure key AI infrastructure components, including security, governance, memory, observability, optimization, and deployment controls. Once configured, those rules and capabilities can be applied across the organization’s AI stack, helping teams maintain flexibility while reducing operational risk.
Optiak said its approach allows companies to keep control of their own AI infrastructure while maintaining the freedom to swap models, tools, or vendors as needed. This is designed to help enterprises avoid vendor lock-in while giving technical and business teams a more structured way to scale AI from isolated pilots into production-grade systems.
The company describes its mission as moving enterprises from fragmented AI to integrated intelligence. By creating a unified operating layer, Optiak aims to help organizations connect AI workflows, enforce policies consistently, monitor performance, and improve AI systems over time.
The funding round was led by Market One Capital, with participation from Next Tier Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Mission, formerly known as Demium, and angel investors connected to companies including SpaceX, Amazon, Stripe, CrowdStrike, Databricks, and Epic Games.
Optiak was built by a team with experience at Google DeepMind, Amazon, Stripe, Hugging Face, and other technology companies. The company said this background gives it experience across AI infrastructure, large-scale software systems, developer tools, and enterprise technology.
The new funding will be used to accelerate platform development, expand product capabilities, and support early enterprise deployments. Optiak is also opening a Design Partner Program for a select group of companies building AI at scale, giving them an opportunity to work closely with the team as the platform evolves.
In addition, Optiak said it is hiring engineers focused on foundational AI infrastructure as it builds out the core systems needed to support enterprise-grade AI deployment, governance, and optimization.
