Alexander Walsh, Co-Founder and CEO Oraion
AI-powered enterprise intelligence and automation platform Oraion has announced it has raised $3.5 million in a pre-seed funding round to support product development and accelerate expansion into the US and Latin America. The investment will also enable Oraion to expand its team, with the aim of tripling the workforce to 45 staff focused on engineering, R&D, and go-to-market by the end of 2026.
As demand grows for secure and reliable AI solutions, Oraion’s intelligence platform provides enterprises a direct line from raw data to clear decision-making in seconds, providing them with deep insights and integrating automatically into existing workflows without disruption.
Over the past year, Oraion has gone from stealth mode to landing enterprise customers across e-commerce, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, private equity, investment management, and financial services. As a remote-first company, Oraion is seeking strategic talent in the US and worldwide to accelerate their vision, close to their customers, with location flexibility to attract the best industry talent.
The pre-seed round was led by US-based Studio VC, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City, with several high-profile backers including Enterprise Ireland and angel investors such as Paul Forster, Co-founder of Indeed.com; Aidan Corbett, Co-founder and CEO at Wayflyer; Gearoid O’Brien, Principal Data Scientist at YouTube; Juho Parkkinen, CFO of the Burning Man Project; Angus Miln, Partner at Cooley LLP; Maurice O’Donoghue, serial entrepreneur; Adam Wilson, Nordea Bank; Maria O’Brien, Partner at SOSV; and Pierre-Antoine Porte, OpenAI.
Oraion is an AI-powered platform that makes raw enterprise data instantly useful. Teams across any industry can chat with their enterprise data to surface insights in real time and predict and prepare for business events before they happen, all using Oraion to accelerate data to action. Oraion’s agents interrogate internal and external systems, extracting context and content to deliver current recommendations in time-sensitive and data-dense arenas such as investment intelligence, customer sentiment analysis, and workflow automation.
The platform can serve as a company’s enterprise data store or seamlessly connect with their existing data infrastructure, supporting over 300 data sources. By integrating directly with productivity applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and more, executives can interact with Oraion through their existing applications, receiving the responses needed to make high-impact, data-driven decisions faster. Oraion acts as a trusted single source of truth that powers smarter, faster outcomes for enterprises.
According to the 2025 State of Analytics Engineering Report, 80 percent of data professionals now use AI daily, up from 30 percent last year, signaling a major shift in how enterprises handle data. Yet 57 percent still spend most of their time maintaining or organizing data sets instead of driving business decisions, a persistent imbalance that limits the strategic impact data teams can make. Oraion is leading the way in helping teams move beyond routine tasks to focus on high-leverage work.
Commenting on the investment, Alexander Walsh, Co-Founder and CEO, said: “This investment is an important step on our journey to transform how enterprises harness their data. It will accelerate our expansion and fuel the continuous evolution of our platform to deliver unparalleled actionable insights at scale. We are driven by a bold vision to secure 50 percent market share of Fortune 500 companies within the next three years. This funding brings us one step closer to reshaping the future of enterprise intelligence.”
Joe Coyne, Managing Partner, Studio VC, added: “We back founders who are ahead of the curve, and the Oraion team is building exactly where the enterprise world is going, toward more autonomous intelligent systems designed to serve humans, not replace them. Agentic AI isn’t just a trend, it’s a fundamental shift. Oraion is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation, and we’re excited to partner with them at this pivotal moment.”
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