Palette raises €3M pre-seed to develop an OS for AI-native teams

Copenhagen-based
AI software startup Palette has raised €3 million in pre-seed funding to expand
its platform for teams adopting AI across their organisations. The round was
led by Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from Emblem, Acadian Ventures
and a group of angel investors.

Founded in
2025 by Brian Kyed, Lars Ettrup, Steffen D. Sommer and Christian Lomholt,
Palette is developing an operating system designed to help companies integrate
AI agents into workflows across functions including sales, operations and
product.

As AI
adoption expands beyond engineering teams, companies are increasingly
incorporating different models and AI tools into their day-to-day operations.
Palette’s approach is to separate these underlying models from a company’s
internal context, workflows and knowledge, allowing teams to switch between
models and providers while retaining their own organisational data and
processes.

There
will always be a newer model. The responsible way to adopt AI is to make the
model swappable and make your company context durable. That’s what we’re
building with Palette,

said co-founder Brian Kyed.

The
company’s Palette Desktop application enables teams to work with AI agents such
as Claude Code and Codex directly on their files and folders. Users can choose
between cloud-based models for factors such as speed, capabilities and cost, or
local models where greater control over sensitive information is required.

Palette is
also developing a broader operating system that includes a company-owned
context library, shared AI skills and a connector gateway designed to allow
tools to be connected once and used across multiple agents. Palette Desktop is
currently available to paying customers, while the broader Palette OS is being
used by design partners.

The company
will use the new funding to expand its sales operations and team while
continuing to develop and roll out its platform.