turnus.ai secures pre-seed funding

Increasing regulatory pressure and a growing volume of compliance enquiries from partner companies are creating an immense burden on the industry. This effort leads to noticeable productivity losses and is becoming a genuine barrier to innovation. Businesses are forced to hire additional staff who do not generate value but focus exclusively on managing administrative tasks.

Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that we have closed our pre-seed funding round led by Uplift Ventures. This partnership advances our mission to put the compliance response process on autopilot. Our technology is already successfully deployed at more than 20 leading industrial companies, and the number is growing daily.

When manual enquiries paralyse productivity

The idea for turnus.ai emerged from our collaboration with our strategic partner, Jungheinrich AG. We observed that subject-matter experts were increasingly blocked by manual information requests and quickly realised that this issue recurred across all industries.

Manually answering these complex compliance questionnaires is time-consuming and compounded by the fact that the required information is often fragmented across various departments, ERP systems, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets.

“Industrial companies face the challenge of having to answer an increasing number of highly specific customer enquiries. More and more specialist resources are tied up in these requests without generating any discernible added value for their own business,” says Tobias Seidel, Co-Founder and CEO of turnus.ai.

turnus.ai understands documents like an expert

We have developed an AI solution that automates this entire workflow. turnus.ai simplifies the process through AI-driven text analysis and context recognition.

The system supports subject-matter experts with, among other things, product compliance enquiries such as REACH or RoHS, sustainability and supply chain topics like LkSG or ESG, and IT security certifications such as NIS2 or DORA. Most importantly, with turnus.ai we eliminate the manual searching and migration of data. To achieve this, we combine the advantages of modern Large Language Models with GDPR-compliant data processing and encrypted communication to ensure the protection of sensitive corporate data.

“For the first time, our solution offers a centralised and transparent database to make all quality- and sustainability-relevant informaton immediately available within the enterprise,” says Ferdinand Heck, Co-Founder and CPO.

Strong validation by leading industrial enterprises

The solution was successfully validated during a multi-month pilot phase with our strategic partner, Jungheinrich AG. The turnround time for complex enquiries was reduced by up to 90%, returning valuable time to the specialist staff for strategic tasks.

With the pre-seed funding, turnus.ai will meet the growing market demand and integrate the system even deeper into existing corporate processes. We take our role as a compliance autopilot for our customers seriously and see the greatest opportunity in connecting the diverse requirements of quality, compliance, and sustainability managers within a centralised system.

AI enthusiasts wanted!

We are a small team with a large impact and are growing rapidly to meet customer demand. We are hiring across various departments. If you want to work on leading technology with measurable impact, we look forward to meeting you!

You can view our open positions here or learn more at turnus.ai.