Orq.ai
Category: AI Developer Tools
A Generative AI Collaboration Platform (LLMOps) that enables teams to build, deploy, and manage production-grade AI agents and LLM applications at scale, providing end-to-end tooling for development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. Orq.ai was founded in 2022. The company is led by Sohrab Hosseini. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Team size: 25. Total funding raised: $8.28M. Latest round: Seed ($5.81M, Dec 2025). Key investors include ["seed + speed Ventures","Galion.exe","Curiosity VC","Spacetime","XO Ventures","xdeck ventures","Waves Capital","Golden Egg Check"].
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Team size
- 25
- Total funding
- $8.28M
Value proposition
Bridges the AI prototype-to-production gap by providing a unified control layer for quality, compliance, financial impact, and product metrics in one infrastructure-agnostic platform, cutting agent development time by 67% and freeing more than 10% of engineering capacity
Products and solutions
["AI Gateway (multi-model support across 300+ LLMs with intelligent routing)","Agent Runtime & Deployment Engine","Prompt Management & Experimentation Studio","Evaluation Tools (Agent Simulation, LLM-as-Judge, Human Evals, RAG Evals)","Observability & Real-time Analytics Dashboard","RAG-as-a-Service with Knowledge Base Management","Serverless Orchestration Platform","Budget Control & FinOps Tools"]
Unique value
Only LLMOps platform with sovereignty-ready architecture that allows enterprises to run AI on their own infrastructure (cloud, hybrid, or on-premises) while supporting data residency rules; democratizes GenAI for both technical and non-technical team members through collaborative low-code/no-code interface; supports 300+ LLM models with intelligent routing and automatic failover
Target customer
Engineering and product teams at enterprises, AI startups, tech consultancies, and software development agencies seeking to accelerate generative AI adoption while reducing friction between technical and business stakeholders
Industries served
["Enterprise Software & SaaS","Technology Consultancies & Agencies","Financial Services","E-commerce & Retail","Healthcare & Life Sciences","Manufacturing & Logistics"]
Technology advantage
End-to-end LLMOps platform that combines multi-model AI gateway, serverless orchestration, real-time observability, and compliance monitoring in a single solution; eliminates need for enterprises to build prompt engineering tools in-house; infrastructure-agnostic design supports GDPR, EU AI Act, and SOC 2 Type II compliance; reduces vendor lock-in through BYOM (Bring Your Own Model) capability
How they differentiate
End-to-end LLMOps platform with sovereignty-ready architecture supporting 300+ LLM models, enabling enterprises to run AI on own infrastructure (cloud, hybrid, on-premises) while ensuring GDPR, EU AI Act, and SOC 2 Type II compliance. Features collaborative low-code/no-code interface for technical and non-technical users, serverless orchestration, and comprehensive Agent Studio for designing production-grade AI agents.
Main competitors
["LangChain (LangSmith)","Vellum","Lleverage"]
Key partnerships
["Google Cloud (strategic partnership for global scaling and market expansion)","Groq (fast AI inference integration for LPU-based model deployment)","Gartner Recognition: Included in Emerging Leaders Quadrant for Generative AI Engineering (2025) and recognized as Emerging Visionary/Specialist in three categories: Generative AI Engineering, AI Knowledge Management Apps, and Generative AI Model Providers","Technology partners network including major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)","Implementation partners for enterprise deployment and integration"]
Notable customers
["Afas","MoneyBird","Keyrus","Helloprint","Brand New Day Bank","Evergrowth","CopyPress","ADAMI","Nxt Phase AI"]
Major milestones
["First pre-seed round of €800K in September 2023","Pre-seed extension of €1.5M in March 2024","Seed round of €5M in December 2025 - oversubscribed","Recognized in Gartner Emerging Leaders Quadrant for Generative AI Engineering (2025)","Recognized as Emerging Visionary in 3 Gartner market quadrants (Nov 2025)","Strategic partnership with Google Cloud for global scaling","Groq partnership for fast AI inference integration","SOC 2 Type II certification achieved","500+ engineering teams using platform globally"]
Growth metrics
Platform used by 500+ engineers and product teams globally across 100+ organizations; raised €7.3M total funding over 3 rounds from 2023-2025
Market positioning
Early-stage European LLMOps platform positioned as a comprehensive Generative AI Collaboration Platform, Recognized in Gartner's Emerging Leaders Quadrant for Generative AI Engineering (2025) and identified as Emerging Visionary/Specialist across three categories: Generative AI Engineering, AI Knowledge Management Apps, and Generative AI Model Providers.
Geographic focus
Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) and United States
Patents and IP
No registered patents publicly disclosed as of latest update (December 2025)
About Sohrab Hosseini
Co-founder of Orq.ai; 18+ years building and operating engineering organizations for B2B SaaS companies; Previously served as COO/CTO at Neocles and other SaaS companies; Former McKinsey & Company associate with experience in technology transformation
Official website: https://orq.ai/