Cirql One raises €5 million in seed funding to bring Business Context to Enterprise AI

Heidelberg, Germany, April 29, 2026 – Cirql One builds the Business Context Layer that enterprise AI needs to act reliably and at scale. Large enterprises run on decades of accumulated knowledge: the workflows, approval logic, pricing rules, and decision structures embedded in systems like SAP – the world’s leading enterprise resource planning platform. This institutional knowledge is what makes AI actually useful in business operations. Cirql One extracts it, governs it, and makes it ready to use – for AI applications, analytics teams, and autonomous agents alike. Enterprise customers, including dm are already deploying Cirql One to move beyond AI experimentation. To accelerate this mission, the company today announces €5 million in Seed funding led by UVC Partners, with participation from Fly Ventures.

Business Context: The strategic factor Enterprise AI has been missing

When every company can access the same AI models, the competitive advantage shifts to context. Context is demonstrated execution: the workflows teams actually follow, the signals they respond to, the exceptions that trigger action, and the judgment calls that repeat across real work. That knowledge does not live in a data lake or a model. It lives in complex enterprise systems like SAP.

SAP systems encode the real business logic of an enterprise: permissions, workflows, pricing rules, and approval logic accumulated over decades. This institutional knowledge is embedded in configurations that took years to build. It is rarely formalized and almost never machine-readable.

The consequence is structural. Every AI initiative that touches business operations requires rebuilding the same institutional knowledge from scratch. The result: inconsistent outputs, duplicated effort, and accountability that erodes the moment something goes wrong.

As enterprises move into agentic AI, where systems act autonomously on business processes, the cost of missing business context is no longer a wrong report. It is a wrong action.

Where Cirql One delivers value

Cirql One massively accelerates the creation of Business Data Products: structured, reusable units of business knowledge extracted directly from enterprise systems, in particular SAP. The concept of Business Data Products was developed by Cirql One. The platform extracts business context, KPIs, and governance logic from SAP, formalizes them into reusable assets, and delivers that governed knowledge to AI applications, analytics, and automation systems, ready to use, without manual reconstruction for every use case.

The company was founded in January 2025 by Gregor Stöckler (CEO), Stefan Hockenberger (Co-Founder & COO), and Tara von Metzen (Co-Founder & CPTO), SAP veterans with 20+ years of combined experience. 

Voices

Gregor Stoeckler, CEO & Founder, Cirql One:

“AI can already build powerful applications but lacks Business Context to operate in the enterprise world. The prevailing view is that ontologies and semantics solve this. That is only part of the answer, because enterprises don’t run on metadata, they run on rules and decision structures, from discount logic to approval limits and process routings. This logic sits in systems like SAP, but it has never been made usable for AI. That is the gap we address. By turning Business Context into reusable decision logic, we enable AI to operate reliably across use cases, grounded in how businesses actually work. This is no longer a future vision – it is already happening in production.”

Oliver Schoppe, Partner, UVC Partners:

“The Business Context Layer is infrastructure that every enterprise will need as AI moves from experimentation into operation. What sets Cirql One apart is the insight that this layer cannot be generic: it must reflect how a specific business actually works – its rules, its authority structures, and its decision logic. That is a hard problem to solve, and Cirql One has built an effective and differentiated path to solving it. We are excited to lead this round and support the team in scaling what they have built.”

Accelerating R&D, Co-Innovation, and Go-to-Market

Cirql One will deploy the funding across four priorities: strengthening its R&D team; advancing co-innovation programs with enterprise customers; expanding operational structures that allow the company to scale with rigor; and building the commercial momentum needed to bring the Business Context Layer to enterprises that need it.

About Cirql One

Cirql One builds the Business Context Layer that Enterprise AI needs to act reliably and at scale. By extracting decades of institutional knowledge from enterprise applications like SAP into its Business Context Layer we establish the foundation that makes Enterprise AI scalable and trustworthy. Our Business Context Layer provides centrally governed business reasoning and decision logic, so organizations can deploy Enterprise AI at scale without rebuilding logic from scratch for every use case. Founded in January 2025 by Gregor Stoeckler, Stefan Hockenberger and Tara von Metzen, Cirql One is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

For more information, visit cirqlone.com

About Fly Ventures

Fly Ventures is a first-check VC backing technical founders across Europe. Fly partners at inception with founders everyone wants to meet but nobody dares to invest in. Portfolio companies have raised more than USD 3B in follow-on funding from leading US and European venture firms, including AI outliers such as Wayve, 9fin, and Orbital.

For more information, visit www.fly.vc.

About UVC Partners

UVC Partners backs Europe’s most ambitious B2B tech founders building new category leaders. From DeepTech to AI, the firm has invested in breakout startups including Isar Aerospace, Proxima Fusion, Q.ANT, Aleph Alpha, Tacto, Flix, and FINN. 

With more than €700 million in assets under management, UVC Partners invests up to €15 million initially across multiple stages from early to growth. Over the lifetime of the investment, €30 million per company can be deployed. 

Beyond capital, UVC Partners' investment team is a "tech team for tech teams" – supporting founders in building and scaling market-leading companies. Through its unique access to UnternehmerTUM – Europe's leading innovation hub – the VC offers a powerful ecosystem of entrepreneurs, key corporate decision-makers, and top-tier researchers. UVC Partners' value-creation team provides direct access to a network of 1,000+ companies – potential customers and strategic partners. 

For more information, visit www.uvcpartners.com.