Optiak closes €4 million pre-seed to build first true orchestration layer for enterprise AI

Optiak, the modular operating system for enterprise AI, has announced a €4 million (approximately $4.7 million) pre-seed funding round led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures Plug and Play EMEA Fund and Mission. The round is also backed by investors linked to giants such as SpaceX, Amazon, Stripe, Crowdstrike, or Databricks, making it one of the largest capital injections recorded in Spain in 2026 in the field of AI for enterprises.

Founded in 2025, Spanish-founded and EU-focused, Optiak has developed a modular operating system designed to enable large enterprises to integrate artificial intelligence into the core of their workflows. The intuitive and secure platform enables the centralised management of AI third-party applications and proprietary tools, reducing a company’s dependence on a single cloud or AI provider.

“The first wave of AI adoption was based on isolated solutions. Now, companies need governance, intelligent management, security and observability to function as a unified system. Our mission is to facilitate that transition and move from fragmented AI to intelligence that is truly integrated into the core of the company,” according to Daniel Arenas, co-CEO and co-founder of Optiak.

The challenge of managing AI in enterprises

Optiak launches at a time of intense pressure for executive boards, which are forced to deploy AI at scale without losing operational control or compromising security. In this context, many companies fall into two common traps. 

• The first is  ‘shadow AI’, where employees use tools on their own without IT department oversight. This issue has already led to internal data leaks in 46% of companies (Cisco, 2025) and currently accounts for 20% of security breaches related to generative AI (IBM, 2025). 
• The second trap is to run towards rigid centralisation to avoid the possibility of shadow AI. However, this limits companies to a single large provider or forces them to develop proprietary internal platforms, which reduce flexibility and can prove very costly. Estimates put annual maintenance costs as ranging from 15% to 30% of the initial development investment (RiseUp Labs, 2026). 

Optiak addresses existing flawed approaches to enterprise AI deployments through a centralised operational layer that acts as an intermediary between any AI application—such as chatbots, agents or workflows—and the models that underpin them. This approach provides a single point of connection where all security, governance, memory, observability and optimisation logic is configured once.

One of Optiak’s key differentiators is its governance capabilities. The platform applies corporate policies that block any security or IP risks before an employee uses a third-party LLM. The platform then acts as a conductor, assessing which permissioned LLMs will provide users with the best response at the lowest cost.

An elite team building the future of AI orchestration

Behind Optiak’s vision is a team of artificial intelligence experts with experience at companies such as Amazon, Google, DeepMind and Hugging Face. The company is led by co-CEOs Daniel Arenas and Ignacio Gamoneda and Borja Balle, the company’s CTO, alongside a team with a proven track record in developing large-scale AI products and systems in highly complex technological environments.

Coinciding with the funding round, the company has announced the launch of its Design Partner Program, a joint development programme focused on a select group of forward-thinking companies seeking a strategic partner to co-design and validate large-scale AI use cases with direct support from the founding team.

“In my previous roles at Google DeepMind and Amazon I kept observing the same pattern: the real return on AI never comes from optimizing one model or tool in isolation. It comes from the architecture and ecosystem around them. At Optiak we operationalize exactly this principle. By connecting an entire corporate ecosystem into a shared operating layer, every gain in latency, cost, accuracy, memory, security or governance, stops being local and starts compounding. The system’s intelligence accumulates and scales globally, instead of being rebuilt application by application.”  says Borja Balle, CTO and co-founder of Optiak.