Danish startup Interhuman AI, a startup building the first social intelligence layer for AI systems, has raised a €2 million pre-seed funding round. Interhuman AI is creating a world where tech finally understands humans. Not just our words, but the millions of subtle signals beneath the surface.
This will transform the next generation of conversational AI by allowing it to develop human-like social awareness by understanding facial expressions, body language, and voice tonality.
Interhuman AI combines computer vision, audio analysis, psychology, and behavioral science to translate raw human cues into social signals. These signals can then be interpreted in context to make human-AI interactions more natural and meaningful. A smile while leaning forward can signal engagement, while the same smile paired with leaning back might suggest something entirely different. This social awareness can be added to any AI system by adding just a few lines of code.
In training and coaching, AI with social intelligence could feel more natural and personalised, adapting to each learner’s unique style and challenges. In digital health, it could respond with greater empathy, tailoring support to our needs in real time. In sales, it could help professionals understand not just what they say, but how they say it, offering feedback on clarity, confidence, and empathy. And in customer service, it could finally give us AI support bots that truly get us, responding better to frustration and hesitation.
The global AI market is expanding rapidly. Yet while AI systems are becoming skilled at processing words, they miss up to 93 per cent of non-verbal communication. That’s a major gap, especially since half of the $757B AI market involves human-AI interaction, and 40 per cent of those interactions would improve if AI could understand non-verbal cues.
Paula Petcu, co-founder of Interhuman AI, comments:
The global AI market is growing fast. However, to realise the full potential of AI solutions, it needs to take into consideration all aspects of human behaviour. AI isn’t just about efficiency and workflow optimisation - it is about human interaction. Without the solution that we are building, we think that AI developers will continue to struggle to deliver impactful solutions that allow for human-Al understanding, resulting in failure and disappointment with what AI can do.
The investment round was led by the Nordic VC fund PSV Tech, with participation from EIFO (Export and Investment Fund of Denmark), Antler, the Yope Foundation, and high-profile angels from Ada Ventures.
Alexander Viterbo-Horten, Partner at PSV Tech, comments:
We’re only just beginning to see what happens when social intelligence is built into AI. This breakthrough has the potential to transform healthcare, education, and any sector where human-AI interaction matters. Research already shows that automating behavioral coding with AI makes mental health diagnostics far more reliable, while avoiding the bias that comes with manual coding. Interhuman AI is leading this shift with rare technical depth, scientific rigor, and the ambition to unlock this frontier.
The investment in Interhuman AI is the third AI investment out of three in PSV Tech’s Fund II, which they launched in May this year. This only illustrates that Denmark and the Nordics are taking the lead on AI in Europe.
Interhuman AI was founded in Copenhagen by a team that brings together deep AI expertise, startup experience, and strong academic research backgrounds. They are supported by advisors with expertise in psychology, user experience, business development, and artificial intelligence.
Mathias Kaasgaard, Investment Manager at EIFO, said:
Interhuman AI is not just another fast AI-language model business. It is the next and meaningful step in the evolving AI-industry. With its technology deeply rooted in the scientific discoveries in the AI and computer scientific environment at DTU, the company demonstrates what stronghold we have in the AI ecosystem in Denmark and how we can contribute to European innovation within new and transformative technologies. This is technology that will make a difference, and we believe that the founder team is extraordinarily well equipped to make it happen. That is why EIFO is in on this.
Michael Wiatr, Partner at Antler, emphasized that Interhuman AI is adding a human dimension to artificial intelligence:
In a world increasingly dominated by AI, empowering new technologies to understand the wealth of non-verbal communication that we take for granted will be transformational. Interhuman AI has a world-class founding team who combine technical expertise with a real passion and determination to make AI more socially aware. We are delighted to have backed them and have every confidence in their future success.
The company will use this funding to build a platform and API to give companies access to their socially aware AI and models core. The investment will also be used to scale development and expand a team of AI engineers.
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