AI start-up Jentic has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Elkstone with additional participation from Sure Valley Ventures, TechOperators, and Shuttle. The funding will be used to expand the team, accelerate product development, and bring an integration layer for AI to market.
Founded in late 2024, Jentic is a communication middleware layer for AI agents, which enables developers and organisations to easily hook their AI agents up to other systems, and manage and control their communication. It aims to be the platform that unites the expanding ecosystem of AI agents, from those offered by tech giants to bespoke agents created by in-house teams.
Jentic was founded by CEO Sean Blanchfield, former co-founder of PageFair (acquired by Blockthrough) and DemonWare (acquired by Activision Blizzard); COO Dorothy Creaven, former Managing Director at Rent The Runway and co-founder of Element Wave; Michael Cordner, co-founder of Mindconnex; and Dr. Tilman Schaefer, a founding team member at DemonWare.
“We’re building critical infrastructure to enable developers to easily and securely hook their AI systems up to the world’s APIs,” said Blanchfield. “This is the future of automation, and it needs a new kind of integration layer to manage the unique complexity, reliability and security issues that arise when AI becomes highly connected.
“We have a strong history of building category-leading middleware, and this funding will allow us to quickly expand our world-class team, match the tremendous pace of AI development, and deliver a platform that empowers developers and organisations to deploy sophisticated AI with confidence.”
For developers, Jentic streamlines API integration for AI agents, automatically matching them with optimal tools as they execute tasks. For executives, it provides centralised oversight of agent operations across the organisation, enabling monitoring, security management, and access control.
Jentic’s board of advisors includes Steven Collins (CTO of Unity, former CTO of King, co-founder of Havok and Swrve), Patricia Scanlon (Ireland’s AI Ambassador and founder/former CEO of Soapbox Labs, acquired in 2023 by Curriculum Associates), Colm Long (former VP of global operations at Facebook and director of operations at Google, previously COO at Tines), Fergal Reid (VP of AI at Intercom) and Mark Cummins (former founder/CEO of Pointy and Plink, which were respectively acquired in 2010 and 2020 by Google).
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