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 learn how to leverage AI to grow to be extra environment friendly and empower workers. With Ivy, a talented developer can grow to be considerably more practical and lead the AI revolution inside their organisation. It’s not a no-code product meant to exchange 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 stable mixture of technical experience and go-to-market acumen. The 2 Co-founders have collaborated for years and convey a shared imaginative and prescient of empowering software program groups by means of sensible automation.
This startup is constructing an AI-powered platform that permits builders to quickly create customized inside instruments corresponding to CRMs and CMSs – instruments typically constructed slowly or by no means 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 functions in “hours or days, as a substitute of months“.
The platform will not be designed to exchange builders, however to boost their pace and adaptability – an strategy that seeks to maneuver away from the restrictions of conventional SaaS options.
By utilizing AI to jot down production-grade code that integrates straight into an organization’s present 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 growth 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 shortly.
“Ivy impresses not solely with its know-how however, above all, with Niels and Renco’s expertise as serial entrepreneurs. Their imaginative and prescient to automate inside methods with AI is daring and revolutionary. Ivy allows fast growth and sensible customisation of back-office options, boosting effectivity and unleashing builders’ potential. We strongly imagine 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 inside methods are sometimes uncared for.
