Optiak, the enterprise AI platform, has announced a €4 million pre-seed funding round (approximately $4.7 million), led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures, Plug and Play EMEA Fund, and Mission. The round also includes backing from investors linked to giants such as SpaceX, Amazon, Stripe, CrowdStrike, and Databricks, among others, positioning it as one of the largest capital injections recorded in Spain in 2026 in the field of enterprise AI.
The startup Optiak, founded by Spanish entrepreneurs and focused on the European Union, has developed a modular operating system designed to enable large companies to integrate artificial intelligence into the core of their operations in a simple, intelligent, and secure way. The platform allows centralized management of both third-party applications and proprietary tools based on large language models (LLMs), enabling companies to adapt to the rapidly evolving AI landscape in a safe and controlled manner.
“The first wave of AI adoption was based on isolated solutions. Now, companies need governance, intelligent management, security, and observability to work as a unified system. Our mission is to enable that transition and move from fragmented AI to intelligence that is truly integrated into the core of the company,” said Daniel Arenas, co-CEO and co-founder of Optiak.
The challenge of managing AI in companies
The launch of Optiak comes at a time of maximum pressure for corporate boards, which are required to deploy AI at scale without losing operational control or compromising security. In this context, many companies fall into two common pitfalls. On the one hand, so-called shadow AI, where teams use tools independently without IT oversight, which has already led to internal data leaks in 46% of companies and accounts for 20% of security breaches related to generative AI, according to data from Cisco and IBM. On the other hand, the push for rigid centralization, either by relying on a single major provider or by building internal proprietary platforms, which reduces flexibility and can be very costly, with annual maintenance expenses ranging between 15% and 30% of initial development costs, according to RiseUp Labs.
Optiak addresses this tension through a centralized operating layer that acts as an intermediary between any AI application—such as chatbots, agents, or workflows—and the underlying models and integrations. In this way, through a single connection point, all logic related to security, governance, memory, and compliance is configured once.
One of Optiak’s key differentiators is its ability to understand the full relevant context of the company even before interacting with an AI model, allowing it to optimize each interaction based on organizational needs—from ensuring compliance with data security regulations to selecting the best model in terms of performance or cost. As a result, early outcomes show strong potential for cost synergies while ensuring outputs remain secure and controlled.
An elite team
Behind this 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, along with Borja Balle, CTO of the company, supported by a team with extensive prior experience building AI products and systems at scale in highly complex technological environments.
Unlike traditional providers that simply deliver closed software, Optiak is focusing on co-creation at this stage. Coinciding with the funding round, the company has announced the launch of its Design Partner Program, a joint development initiative aimed at a small group of advanced 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 seeing the same pattern: the true performance of AI never comes from optimizing a model or tool in isolation; it comes from the architecture and ecosystem surrounding it. At Optiak, we apply exactly this principle. By connecting an entire corporate ecosystem through a shared operating layer, every improvement in latency, cost, accuracy, memory, security, or governance is no longer local—it starts to compound. The intelligence of the system accumulates and scales globally, instead of being rebuilt application by application,” said Borja Balle, CTO and co-founder of Optiak.
About Optiak
Founded in 2025 by a team of professionals with extensive experience in artificial intelligence, Optiak is an enterprise AI platform dedicated to transforming how large organizations adopt this technology. Headquartered in the United States with initial operations in Spain, the company provides a modular operating system that enables organizations to securely and efficiently manage both third-party applications and proprietary tools based on large language models (LLMs). Its platform acts as a centralized operating layer that optimizes performance, ensures data control, and guarantees technological adaptability, allowing artificial intelligence to become the strategic core of the business.
www.optiak.com
Image: From left to right: Ignacio Gamoneda, Daniel Arenas, and Borja Balle.
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