Aachen-based AI startup Amber has raised €7 million in a Series A funding round. The company offers an AI platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses organise, access, and use their internal knowledge more easily.
The funding round was co-led by Ventech, which has invested in Amber again, and NRW.Venture, the venture capital fund of NRW.BANK.
“Today’s AI tools are still waiting for users to ask the right questions. Our vision is fundamentally different. We have been building an AI platform that understands what’s happening inside a company, recognises what needs to be done and proactively supports employees by executing tasks autonomously. And we’re excited to have won such renowned investors to back our approach,” said Bastian Maiworm, co-founder and CRO of amber.
Founded in 2021 by Maiworm, Philipp Reißel, and Igli Manaj, Amber is an AI platform that helps companies organise and access their internal knowledge while following GDPR requirements.
The platform combines traditional search, generative AI, AI assistants, and automation in one solution. This helps businesses find and use important information more easily.
Amber is also developing technology for autonomous AI in businesses. Its platform helps AI understand a company’s context, identify what employees need, and complete tasks using information from different business systems.
Many companies are investing heavily in AI, but their data is often spread across emails, documents, cloud applications, and internal systems. This makes it difficult for AI to understand the full business context and provide reliable answers.
Amber says fragmented data can limit the benefits of AI. Companies also face the risk of losing valuable knowledge when experienced employees leave or retire, taking years of business experience with them.
Amber aims to solve these problems by connecting, organising, and adding context to business data. This makes important company knowledge easier for both employees and AI systems to find and use.
“AI’s next evolution is not another chatbot. The future belongs to systems that understand business context, recognise user intent and autonomously complete work. That’s exactly what we’re building with amber and this funding allows us to accelerate that vision and bring it to businesses across Europe,” said Philipp Reißel, co-founder and CEO of amber.
“As amber’s first institutional investor, we are backing the team again 18 months following our initial check. They have identified early three of the defining problems of this AI cycle: turning AI into a competitive advantage, lifting the token yield customers actually get from generalists models while preserving data ownership and finally enabling organisations to discover, govern, and scale the right agents, skills, and workflows amid accelerating AI sprawl. By making the right architecture decisions, they built a solid system of context that now underpins the reliable management of agents and their context across hundreds of customers in parallel,” said Nicolas Barthalon, Partner at Ventech.
Amber will use the new funding to expand across Europe, starting with the Benelux region. The company will also invest more in its AI Data Layer and build stronger connections with business systems.
Amber also plans to help more small and medium-sized businesses adopt AI. In the future, its platform will move beyond tasks started by users and become more capable of identifying and completing tasks on its own.
