Brno-based Ranketta, an AI visibility platform serving to manufacturers perceive and enhance their presence in AI search and AI Procuring outcomes, has raised €1 million in pre-Seed funding.
The spherical was led by Lighthouse Ventures with participation from Gi21 Capital.
“Coming from the analysis world, I noticed firsthand the shortage of visibility that firms have into how AI programs affect what individuals purchase. Conventional search engine optimization and analytics not present the complete image of how prospects uncover merchandise, and types want instruments that work throughout each previous and new search channels,” says Vojtěch Oravec, CEO and founding father of Ranketta.
In 2025, a number of European startups working in AI search, ecommerce optimisation, and brand-visibility tooling have secured new funding, illustrating rising momentum on this rising section.
In Prague, TopK raised €4.6 million to construct an AI-native enterprise search engine, whereas Berlin-based Peec AI secured €7 million to assist its generative-search optimisation platform for advertising groups. Within the UK, Merx closed €1.1 million at pre-Seed for its AI-enabled conversational commerce layer, and Ghent-based Dalton raised €1 million to show web sites into AI-powered progress engines.
Mixed, these firms attracted roughly €13.7 million in 2025, signalling investor curiosity in instruments that assist manufacturers floor, carry out, or convert inside AI-driven discovery environments.
Ranketta’s pre-Seed spherical matches into this sample, with one other Czech startup (TopK) additionally elevating capital this yr – highlighting Czechia’s rising presence in AI search-related innovation.
Whereas different firms in adjoining verticals raised bigger Seed rounds, Ranketta enters the panorama with early traction and a specialised concentrate on measuring and bettering model and product visibility inside generative-AI outcomes, a functionality that aligns intently with the broader market exercise.
“Ranketta turns AI Procuring into an actual acquisition channel that firms can monitor, enhance, and develop. Our mission is to make sure each model can compete pretty within the AI-driven discovery panorama,” provides Oravec.
Based in 2025 by AI researcher and product builder Vojtěch Oravec, Ranketta is a platform that measures and improves model visibility in AI-generated solutions. It helps D2C, ecommerce, and B2B manufacturers monitor their presence throughout massive language fashions like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, providing actual knowledge and actionable ideas to enhance rankings.
Earlier than launching Ranketta, 21 yr previous Oravec performed analysis within the group of Tomáš Mikolov on the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at Czech Technical College.
In simply two months since launch, Ranketta has reportedly reached €86k ($100k) ARR and now helps greater than 20 quickly rising European manufacturers, together with Brainmarket, Enhance.area, Purple Expertise and Sloneek.
Michal Zálešák, Managing Accomplice at LightHouse Ventures, says: “Many firms are attempting to handle AI search, however Ranketta’s precision and product-level visibility set it aside. The corporate’s early progress, along with Vojtěch’s technical imaginative and prescient, are each extremely spectacular. With AI search set to affect a whole bunch of billions in client spending over the following few years, we see Ranketta rising as a key participant on this quickly rising market.”
Information reveals that 50% of consumers are already using AI-powered search to inform purchasing decisions, and 44% now rely on it more than Google.
Spending influenced by AI search is predicted to succeed in €647 billion ($750 billion) by 2028, but fewer than 40% of marketers checklist Generative Engine Optimization as a precedence for his or her organisations, and simply 16% of brands track their AI search performance at all.
This implies manufacturers will be extremely seen on Google, however stay virtually invisible inside LLMs in the event that they don’t have the instruments to grasp what prospects really see.
Ranketta says they’re the one software program in Europe able to measuring how usually and the way nicely particular person merchandise seem in solutions generated by AI instruments similar to ChatGPT and Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overview.
The platform reveals which particular person gadgets LLMs advocate most, why they seem, and the way manufacturers can enhance their placement. Alongside product insights, Ranketta additionally tracks a model’s total presence in AI responses, together with whether or not mentions are optimistic, how excessive the model ranks, and the way regularly it seems.
It additionally identifies the articles and sources these instruments depend on when referencing a model.
The platform contains an AI Copilot that critiques every model’s knowledge and offers tailor-made suggestions on what content material to create and which citations or web sites could have the most important influence.
“Conventional search engine optimization gained’t outline the following decade, AI visibility will. Ranketta is among the many first platforms to obviously decode how AI fashions consider manufacturers and merchandise, giving firms the perception they should develop in an AI-first market,” stated Damir Špoljarič, Founder and GP at Gi21 Capital.
The brand new funding will speed up growth throughout Europe, assist its entry within the U.S. market, and develop its engineering, product, and gross sales groups. It can additionally advance growth of Ranketta’s integrations with Shopify and different ecommerce platforms.
