The Austrian startup's software shrinks AI models by up to 80%, letting companies run more AI on less hardware.
Ora Computing, a startup specializing in optimizing and compressing AI foundation models, today announced the close of a €3.5 million seed round led by us and Greencode Ventures, with continued backing from foundational investor XISTA Science Ventures, who helped build and launch the company.
Ora was founded by Stefan Sack and Raimel A. Medina, both quantum computing researchers from the Serbyn group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), one of Europe's leading research institutions. The company emerged from stealth in late 2025 and has since validated its compression solution with players in the Automotive and Edge Silcon sectors. The fresh funding will be used to grow the team, extend compression capabilities to the largest frontier models, and launch a commercial product for cloud inference providers and companies deploying AI at the edge.
“The era of brute-force AI is hitting its physical limits: hyperscalers reopening nuclear reactors, frontier labs burning billions on compute, reasoning models multiplying inference costs every quarter. The only sustainable answer is to make frontier AI dramatically cheaper to run. That's what Ora Computing does, compresses frontier LLMs so they run anywhere: in the cloud, in your car, in your pocket, and why Constructor Capital is proud to co-lead their €3.5M Seed,”
says Valentino Jadriško, our Senior Associate.
