Velorum Raises €3 Million from Iris to Accelerate AI-Powered Enterprise Knowledge Platform
Velorum, the Barcelona‑based startup applying artificial intelligence to enterprise knowledge management, has taken a major step forward in its growth trajectory with a substantial capital infusion that underscores investor confidence in its technology and market potential. Founded by Marc Martínez and Marcos Lora, the company has developed a platform that transforms disparate organizational data into a unified, intelligent system of connected knowledge. The platform is designed to contextualize technical and documentary information and convert it into a strategic asset that businesses can exploit through AI‑enabled processes.
In November 2025, Velorum secured three million euros in investment from Iris, a venture builder with a strong track record of creating and scaling technology companies across sectors such as cybersecurity, cloud services and data management. This funding round is aimed at accelerating Velorum’s growth, strengthening its position within the European AI ecosystem and supporting expansion into new markets, including the United States, where the company has recently opened an office in Seattle to anchor its presence in the West Coast tech landscape.
The investment by Iris marks a vote of confidence in Velorum’s approach to what it calls “Enterprise Knowledge Automation,” a method that uses semantic graphs and advanced algorithms to model the full spectrum of a company’s informational assets — from documents and databases to codebases and machine‑generated models. These semantic graphs allow Velorum’s platform to organize, connect and extract meaningful metadata from previously siloed data, effectively creating a dynamic, interconnected knowledge layer that can boost automation, improve decision‑making and support more effective AI deployments.
Velorum’s technology tackles one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise AI: the fragmentation and inaccessibility of data. Many organizations struggle to leverage the full value of their data because it lives in disparate systems and formats that are difficult to integrate. Velorum’s solution seeks to break down those barriers by providing a unified framework that contextualizes information across business units and data types, positioning the company to serve clients in sectors where complex data environments are the norm, such as finance, insurance and technology.
The €3 million investment from Iris also reflects broader trends in the AI market, where tools that enhance enterprise productivity, insights and operational intelligence are attracting significant interest. According to Velorum’s leadership, the company is already working with “leading clients” in key industries, and the new capital is expected to help scale both product development and go‑to‑market efforts to meet what management describes as “high demand” for its solutions. In tandem, Velorum anticipates additional fundraising activity in 2026 to further fuel its international expansion.
A notable element of Velorum’s post‑investment strategy is its emphasis on integrating with major cloud and data technology partners including Microsoft and Google for cloud infrastructure, NVIDIA and Neo4j for graph and AI acceleration, and Databricks for unified data and AI platform services. Collaborations with AWS and Snowflake also form part of the broader ecosystem that underpins the company’s platform, enabling it to leverage best‑in‑class technologies while focusing on its core competency of knowledge automation.
Velorum’s projected growth ambitions are substantial. The company has publicly stated intentions to multiply its revenue by a factor of seven in 2026 while maintaining annual growth rates of around 30 percent through 2029. Leadership has framed these objectives within a vision of becoming a reference partner for organizational intelligence, data transformation and AI acceleration across Europe and beyond. The new funding from Iris is a foundational piece of that plan, offering both the capital and strategic support necessary to navigate a competitive AI landscape.
For Iris, the investment in Velorum represents part of a broader strategy to cultivate cutting‑edge technology ventures that can scale rapidly and drive value across international markets. Iris’s portfolio includes a range of companies in emerging tech domains, and its commitment to Velorum aligns with its ambition to deploy €20 million in investments between 2025 and 2028 to expand its suite of innovation‑driven enterprises.
As Velorum continues to evolve, its combination of semantic knowledge modeling, AI contextualization and strategic funding support positions it as a noteworthy player in the enterprise AI space. The company’s trajectory — from its European roots to its expanding footprint in the United States — reflects both the opportunities and the growing investor interest in solutions that can help enterprises harness the full potential of their data in an increasingly AI‑driven world.
