Stockholm-based Ivy Interactive has raised €917k in a pre-Seed funding spherical led by Swedish enterprise capital agency Luminar Ventures to allow builders to ship instruments quicker and with higher long-term maintainability.
“Ivy tackles the AI anxiousness that many firms and tech departments are grappling with, about how one can leverage AI to change into extra environment friendly and empower staff. With Ivy, a talented developer can change into considerably more practical and lead the AI revolution inside their organisation. It’s not a no-code product meant to switch builders however one which creates synergies,” says Niels Bosma, Co-founder and CEO of Ivy Interactive.
Based in 2025 by Niels Bosma, beforehand of Offerta and Tessin, and Renco Smeding, the founding father of 21-Draw, Ivy Interactive advantages from a strong mixture of technical experience and go-to-market acumen. The 2 Co-founders have collaborated for years and produce a shared imaginative and prescient of empowering software program groups by way of sensible automation.
This startup is constructing an AI-powered platform that permits builders to quickly create customized inner instruments resembling CRMs and CMSs – instruments typically constructed slowly or in no way on account of useful resource bottlenecks.
Ivy’s pitch is easy: equip builders with an AI-enhanced toolkit that may streamline the event of business-critical purposes in “hours or days, as a substitute of months“.
The platform is just not designed to switch builders, however to boost their pace and suppleness – an strategy that seeks to maneuver away from the constraints of conventional SaaS options.
By utilizing AI to jot down production-grade code that integrates immediately into an organization’s current infrastructure, Ivy goals to take away the necessity for costly exterior companies or sluggish in-house builds.
The pre-Seed capital will assist Ivy’s continued growth and enlargement forward of its public launch, deliberate for this summer season. With early customers already in line, the startup intends to ramp up hiring to scale each its product and market attain rapidly.
“Ivy impresses not solely with its expertise however, above all, with Niels and Renco’s expertise as serial entrepreneurs. Their imaginative and prescient to automate inner programs with AI is daring and revolutionary. Ivy allows speedy growth and sensible customisation of back-office options, boosting effectivity and unleashing builders’ potential. We strongly consider within the group and are proud to be on board from the beginning,” says Jacob Key at Luminar Ventures.
Ivy joins a rising cohort of AI-first firms in Stockholm aiming to reshape how software program groups function, particularly inside massive or fast-moving companies the place inner programs are sometimes uncared for.
