Copenhagen-based Flare has raised €3.6 million in pre-Seed funding to construct belief infrastructure for information validation, responding to a digital surroundings through which AI can generate convincing claims at larger pace and scale than folks can verify them.
The spherical was led by 20VC, with participation from ByFounders and 20Growth, and angels from Stack Overflow, GitHub, Reddit, Meta, Kahoot, HubSpot and Encord.
“We’ll spend the pre-Seed spherical on compute, salaries and scaling the workforce, which goals to develop from six to eight by the top of the 12 months. The purpose is to make it simpler for everybody to belief what they learn,” shared Nicolai Frost Kolborg Jacobsen, co-founder and CEO, with EU-Startups.
Within the wider 2025–2026 funding panorama round AI belief, verification and fraud prevention, Flare’s €3.6 million pre-Seed spherical might be set alongside Tremau in Paris, which raised €3 million to scale its AI-powered belief and security platform; Keyless in London, which secured €1.9 million to sort out deepfakes; IdentifAI in Italy, which raised €5 million for its deepfake detection platform; Trustfull in Milan, which secured €6 million to increase its fraud prevention know-how; and TMT ID in Romania, which raised €34 million because it scaled its digital belief and fraud prevention providing.
Taken collectively, these rounds quantity to nearly €50 million, or about €53.5 million together with Flare, suggesting sustained investor curiosity throughout adjoining classes together with belief and security, id verification, deepfake detection and fraud prevention.
Inside that set, Flare is positioned closest to firms addressing whether or not digital content material or interactions might be trusted, fairly than broader cybersecurity infrastructure.
“We’ve spent years constructing programs that needed to be each massive and reliable,” provides Nicolai. “What’s damaged proper now isn’t that persons are naïve. It’s that the infrastructure for discernment hasn’t scaled with the infrastructure for content material. That’s what we’re constructing.”
Based in 2026, Flare is constructing infrastructure for information validation and understanding within the AI period. Its platform makes use of clear, structured programs and collective intelligence to guage statements and spotlight what’s really supported – on the pace and scale that the present info panorama calls for.
The workforce brings expertise from Google, Unity, IBM, Amazon and Corti.
The corporate believes that AI can already generate convincing statements quicker than any individual can consider them, and is growing a basis for information validation as a response – offering a structured and clear contribution system, for anybody to see which statements are supported and never.
