Based final 12 months, this AI start-up desires to unite the increasing AI agent ecosystem with its integration tech.
The AI bubble continues to increase, as increasingly companies pursue a bit of the motion by deploying AI of their organisations. However what many companies rapidly realise is that it’s not so simple as they may assume.
A current report by PwC discovered that 98pc of Irish companies have began utilizing synthetic intelligence, however solely 6pc have deployed the know-how at scale.
In line with the report, 67pc of Irish enterprise leaders are partially implementing or testing the know-how of their organisations, whereas nonetheless feeling that the protected deployment of AI is advanced, and wishes planning and coordination.
As hesitation abounds with regards to AI deployments and integrations, our Begin-up of the Week hopes to make the method a bit simpler.
Jentic is a Dublin-based AI start-up that goals to unite the increasing AI agent ecosystem by enabling builders and firms to attach their AI brokers to different programs. An AI agent is a software program program that makes use of AI to plan how you can accomplish targets and duties, after which performs the steps in that plan by connecting to different software program programs.
CEO and co-founder Sean Blanchfield describes the start-up’s platform as a “centralised communication hub for AI brokers”.
“We’re constructing a communication middleware layer that permits builders and organisations to simply join their AI brokers to different programs, and centrally management and handle their communication and knowledge entry,” he explains. “We assist builders take their brokers from idea to prototype, simplifying the method of securely connecting them with instruments and programs, and we assist organisations take brokers from prototype to manufacturing, with centralised administration, monitoring and safety.
“By addressing challenges in how AI brokers work together with APIs and different programs, we goal to be the mixing layer that unites the quickly increasing ecosystem of AI brokers.”
The workforce behind the tech
Blanchfield, who’s a member of the Irish Authorities’s AI advisory council, is not any stranger to the entrepreneurial world, having co-founded a number of start-ups previously.
Whereas finding out as an undergraduate, he co-founded cellular messaging firm Phorest, and he later dropped out of a pc science PhD to co-found Demonware, which developed a community middleware know-how for video video games like Name of Obligation. Demonware would later be acquired by Activision Blizzard in 2007.
Following this he co-founded a enterprise studio in addition to PageFair – which was acquired by Blockthrough in 2018.
Jentic is his newest enterprise, which he co-founded final 12 months with SaaS and e-commerce knowledgeable Dorothy Creaven, serial founder and blockchain knowledgeable Michael Cordner and Dr Tilman Schaefer, an knowledgeable in distributed programs who was a founding engineer in Demonware.
“The workforce got here along with a shared imaginative and prescient to handle the challenges of deploying AI brokers in real-world companies, leveraging our complementary experience in know-how, operations and innovation to construct a foundational platform for the subsequent period of AI,” says Blanchfield.
Agent bonding
With automation turning into extra widespread in enterprise operations, Jentic is concentrating on the enterprise AI market, with the goal of offering the suitable infrastructure to attach and handle AI brokers.
As Blanchfield explains to SiliconRepublic.com, each main tech platform shift within the final 40 years has required a brand new kind of integration layer to attach software program elements to one another in addition to to the world.
“Likewise, AI brokers want a brand new sort of integration layer, to assist them discover and securely join to one another, to different software program programs working within the enterprise and to APIs throughout the web,” he says.
“Jentic is constructing this integration layer, with a give attention to reliability, safety and entry management, so that companies can lean into the AI revolution and begin deploying AI brokers with confidence.”
Regardless of solely being established final 12 months and the challenges of becoming a member of a extremely aggressive market – Blanchfield says launching a brand new AI start-up is like “attempting to shoot a shifting goal in a fog” – the start-up has had important success so far.
At first of 2025, Jentic introduced that it had raised €4m in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Elkstone. With eyes set on the longer term, Blanchfield says this funding will enable the corporate to increase its workforce, speed up product growth and produce its AI integration platform to market.
“Our final objective is to be the trusted platform that connects the longer term panorama of AI brokers and different software program programs collectively.”
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