Stockholm-based Kovant, an autonomous enterprise platform that enables businesses to create, run and manage entire operations and departments of AI agents, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by Stockholm-based VC firm J12 Ventures, with participation from Ampli, Green Ventures and a group of angel investors ranging from tech veterans to industry leaders, including Sarah Öhrvall, board member at Axfood and Verisure, who will also join the Kovant board, and Emmanuel Martin-Chave, VP AI at Data Guard.
Unlike copilots or isolated bots that only assist at specific points in a workflow, Kovant provides managed agentic workforces, meaning teams of specialised AI agents that can autonomously operate across functions such as procurement, supply chain, inventory management, compliance and customer success.
Kovant uses a novel architecture that allows enterprises to deploy swarms of agents based on small language models (SLMs) rather than relying solely on large, general-purpose AI models, which helps reduce the risk of hallucinations and errors. Each agent operates within clearly defined guardrails to support accuracy, auditability and compliance. Designed to be deployed within weeks rather than months, Kovant’s agentic teams run continuously, learn over time and escalate only when human input is needed.
Ali Sarrafi, CEO and co-founder of Kovant, explained:
Too often, AI is used in ways that strip the human element out of work. We’ve flipped that. We’re pioneering a system where AI handles the execution so people can focus on what actually needs human judgment. What matters to us is real P&L impact, not building more agents or running endless POCs. Something that can be achieved in weeks, not months.
Kovant’s current portfolio is already generating business value by turning processes that previously took a month, such as procurement and bidding, into autonomous executions completed within one to two days while retaining human oversight. The company is now launching globally, making its platform available to enterprises of all sizes and across markets.
With this funding, Kovant plans to expand its presence across the Nordics, Switzerland and the Benelux region. This expansion supports the company’s goal of helping enterprises adopt agentic-first operations, where AI workforces execute end-to-end business functions under full governance, compliance and human oversight.
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