Octostar closes Seed+ Round at €6.1M as Demand for Sovereign Defence and Intelligence Platforms Accelerates
Europe invests in Soveregn Investigative AI for critical sectors.
GALWAY, IRELAND, April 3, 2026
Octostar Ltd, a European provider of AI software for national security, law enforcement, and financial institutions, today announced the extension of its Seed round, bringing total funding to €6.1 million.
The round was extended by existing strategic and VC investors and joined by Milan-based venture capital firm The Techshop, as well as new national Institutional investors. The investment comes as governments across Europe accelerate efforts to reduce dependence on non-European intelligence platforms.
Octostar was recently named by Intelligence Online as one of only two European alternatives to Palantir in the investigative intelligence space.
In Q1 2026 alone, Octostar completed three new deployments within EU national law enforcement and judicial bodies, with over 15 expected by year-end. The company has also delivered national security deployments across the Middle East and Asia-Pacific and announced joint work with BAE Systems.
Octostar's "No Cloud / Fully Sovereign" approach
Octostar's platform is built to combine advanced analytical capabilities with full data and use-case sovereignty. It can operate entirely in No Cloud/No Internet (air-gapped) environments, supporting intelligence-grade ABAC/RBAC access controls, and is designed for "use-case sovereignty" — allowing clients to adapt it to their own workflows, data sources, and compliance requirements without vendor intervention.
The company has also launched Octobox, a purpose-built tactical appliance that ships as a pre-configured “cluster in a box” requiring no cloud connectivity and no external data exposure — ready to deploy and use.
"Nations are re-evaluating their technology supply chains for intelligence and security, while they’re in extreme need for AI that can be utilized ASAP" said Giovanni Tummarello, CEO and Chief Product Officer of Octostar. "The question is no longer whether sovereign alternatives are needed, but how quickly they can be deployed. We are scaling delivery faster than we ever anticipated to meet that demand."
Edoardo Bosio, Senior Investment Manager at Cysero VC, Octostar's first institutional investor: "Octostar is a company we believed in from the start. Headquartered in Ireland with R&D in Italy, it is well positioned for an intelligence market that increasingly demands digital sovereignty. We are proud to have been its first institutional investor. Giovanni Tummarello and his team are doing outstanding work."
Gianluca D’Agostino, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Techshop: “Giovanni and his talent-dense team represent a rare combination of deep domain expertise, which stems from spending over a decade building software for investigative intelligence, coupled with hunger for disruption. The need for sovereign AI-native intelligence platforms is accelerating fast and Octostar is one of the very few teams delivering on such demand. We are excited to support the company’s next phase of international growth.”
About Octostar
Octostar Ltd is an Irish-headquartered company building on-premise investigative-intelligence platforms, with its R&D centre, Octostar Research SRL, based in Bergamo, Italy, and a recently opened sales office in London. Founded by Dr. Giovanni Tummarello and a team with deep roots in national security and law enforcement analytics software, Octostar delivers link analysis, communications intelligence, document intelligence, and GenAI-powered agents in a fully sovereign, extensible architecture.
