turnus.ai secures pre-seed financing
The funding accelerates our mission to automate the response to manual compliance inquiries.
13th November 2025
Increasing regulatory pressure and a growing volume of compliance inquiries from partner companies are creating an immense burden on the industry. This overhead leads to tangible productivity losses and is becoming a genuine barrier to innovation. Businesses are forced to hire additional staff who do not contribute to value creation but instead focus solely on managing administrative tasks.
Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that we have completed our pre-seed funding round with Uplift Ventures. This partnership accelerates our mission to put the compliance response process on autopilot. Our technology is already successfully deployed at more than 20 leading industrial enterprises, and this number is growing every day.
When manual inquiries stifle productivity
The concept behind turnus.ai emerged from our collaboration with our strategic partner, Jungheinrich AG. We observed that subject matter experts were increasingly being hindered by manual information requests, and quickly realised that this is a recurring challenge across the industry. This manual completion of complex compliance questionnaires is time-consuming and compounded by the fact that the required information is often dispersed across various departments, ERP systems, PDFs and Excel spreadsheets.
Manually responding to the complex compliance questionnaires is time-consuming and further complicated by the fact that the necessary information is often spread across various departments, ERP systems, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets.
“Industrial enterprises face the challenge of having to respond to an increasing number of highly specific customer enquiries. More and more specialist resources are being tied up by these enquiries without creating any tangible added value for their own business,” says Tobias Seidel, Co-Founder and CEO at 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-powered text analysis and context recognition.
The system supports subject matter experts with enquiries regarding product compliance such as REACH or RoHS, sustainability and supply chains such as the LkSG or ESG, as well as IT security certifications such as NIS2 or DORA. Most importantly, with turnus.ai we eliminate the manual retrieval and transfer 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 provides a centralized and transparent data base, making all quality and sustainability-related information instantly accessible across the company," says Ferdinand Heck, Co-Founder and CPO.
Strong validation by leading industry companies
During a multi-month pilot phase with our strategic partner, Jungheinrich AG, the solution was successfully validated. The response time to complex inquiries was reduced by up to 90%, returning valuable time to the professional staff for strategic tasks.
With this pre-seed funding, turnus.ai will meet the growing market demand and integrate the system even deeper into existing business processes. We take our role as a compliance autopilot for our customers seriously and see the greatest opportunity in combining the diverse requirements of quality, compliance, and sustainability managers within one central system.
AI enthusiasts wanted!
We are a small team with a significant impact and are rapidly expanding to meet customer demand. We are hiring across various sectors. If you want to work with leading technology that has a measurable impact, we look forward to meeting you!
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