AI platform amber has raised €7 million in Series A funding to expand across Europe and further develop its technology to help small and medium-sized businesses access and use internal company knowledge. The round was co-led by existing investor Ventech and NRW.Venture, the venture capital fund of NRW.BANK.
Headquartered in Aachen, amber was founded by Bastian Maiworm, Philipp Reissel and Igli Manaj to develop an AI platform that connects, structures and contextualises company knowledge across emails, documents, cloud applications and internal systems.
The company is addressing a challenge facing businesses adopting generative AI: company data is often fragmented across multiple systems, limiting the ability of AI models to understand business context and provide reliable results. At the same time, organisations risk losing institutional knowledge when experienced employees leave or retire.
At the core of amber's platform is its proprietary AI Data Layer, which creates a unified understanding of information across different enterprise systems before applying large language models. By providing models with structured and relevant business context, the technology is designed to improve the accuracy of answers and insights while reducing the amount of unstructured data that AI systems need to process.
Employees can use amber to retrieve information and organisational knowledge that would otherwise require searching through files, emails and other internal systems. The platform is designed to understand the context behind business information rather than relying solely on keywords, helping companies preserve knowledge, support employee onboarding and automate knowledge-intensive workflows.
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,
said amber co-founder & CEO Philipp Reissel.
The new funding will support amber's broader European expansion, beginning with Benelux, as well as further investment in its AI Data Layer and deeper integrations with business systems. The company also plans to strengthen AI adoption among SMEs and evolve its platform from user-initiated workflows towards systems capable of identifying and executing tasks more autonomously.
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