{"id":502184,"date":"2026-06-16T08:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:39:14","slug":"exclusive-optiak-raises-e4m-to-build-an-orchestration-layer-for-enterprise-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502184\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Optiak raises \u20ac4m to build an orchestration layer for enterprise AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Optiak, a startup building what it calls a modular operating system for enterprise AI, has come out of stealth with a \u20ac4m pre-seed round, about $4.7m, led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures Plug and Play EMEA Fund and Mission. The company, the founders say, is trying to solve a problem most large organisations have walked into rather than chosen: a sprawl of AI tools that nobody is governing as a single system.<\/p>\n

The pitch is an intermediary layer. Optiak<\/a> sits between any AI application a company runs, a chatbot, an agent, a workflow, and the models underneath, giving a single point where security, governance, memory, observability, and cost optimisation are configured once rather than rebuilt app by app.<\/p>\n

In practice, the company says, that means corporate policies can block an IP or security risk before an employee sends anything to a third-party model, and the platform can then route the request to whichever permitted model answers best for the lowest cost.<\/p>\n

The problem it is aimed at has a name and some numbers behind it. \u201cShadow AI,\u201d employees reaching for tools without IT oversight, has produced internal data leaks at\u00a046% of organisations, according to Cisco\u2019s 2025 research, and unsanctioned AI now accounts for roughly\u00a0one in five breaches<\/a>\u00a0in IBM\u2019s 2025 breach report.<\/p>\n

The alternative many firms reach for, rigid centralisation on a single provider, trades that risk for vendor lock-in and cost, which is the bind Optiak says its neutral layer is meant to escape.<\/p>\n

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The founders bring the kind of CVs that open enterprise doors. Optiak is led by co-chief executives Daniel Arenas and Ignacio Gamoneda, with Borja Balle as chief technology officer; Balle was previously a senior researcher at Google DeepMind and Amazon, known for work on differential privacy at scale. The wider team draws on experience at Amazon, Google, and DeepMind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first wave of AI adoption was based on isolated solutions,\u201d said Arenas, co-founder and co-chief executive. \u201cNow, companies need governance, intelligent management, security and observability to function as a unified system.\u201d <\/p>\n

Balle framed the technical thesis as compounding: connect a whole corporate ecosystem into one shared layer, he argued, and every gain in latency, cost, or security stops being local and starts accumulating across the organisation.<\/p>\n

The round was led by Market One Capital with Next Tier Ventures, Plug and Play, and Mission, and backed by investors linked to SpaceX, Stripe, CrowdStrike, Amazon, and Epic Games.<\/p>\n

Optiak, founded in 2025, Spanish-founded and EU-focused,\u00a0called it the second-largest enterprise-AI round recorded in Spain in 2026, a claim it attributes to itself. Alongside the funding, it opened a Design Partner Programme for a small group of companies to co-design large-scale use cases with the founding team.<\/p>\n

The product thesis is clear; whether enterprises adopt a new control layer rather than consolidating on a provider they already pay is the test ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Optiak, a startup building what it calls a modular operating system for enterprise AI, has come out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-502184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}