Hamburg, 22 July 2026 – CYANIS AI has secured more than €250,000 in pre-seed financing. The funding will support the continued development of the company's proprietary orchestration platform and the preparation of its first commercial AI-compute deployments.
CYANIS AI is building a distributed AI infrastructure network across household solar systems, commercial and industrial rooftops, as well as large-scale energy sites. Its proprietary software platform connects and intelligently orchestrates these distributed compute nodes into one unified, scalable AI infrastructure.
The distributed model is built around three requirements at the centre of Europe's AI agenda. Compute remains on European soil and under European control, helping keep AI workloads and data sovereign within the region. By distributing compute closer to where demand exists, the platform enables the ultra-low latency required for real-time AI inference. At the same time, by co-locating directly with energy generation, CYANIS AI integrates compute and power at the source rather than competing for scarce grid connections.
By deploying standardized infrastructure in parallel across locations with existing energy capacity, CYANIS AI can bring new AI-compute capacity online in months rather than years – helping close Germany's and Europe's growing compute gap without relying solely on large centralized data-centre projects with multi-year development timelines.
"Europe's AI ambitions require physical compute infrastructure on European soil. However, building large centralized data centres can take many years. Our distributed model enables capacity to be deployed progressively and in parallel; from household and commercial rooftop PV systems to utility-scale energy sites. This pre-seed financing allows us to further advance our proprietary orchestration platform and prepare the next stage of our commercial rollout."
Alexander Owolabi, Founder & CEO, CYANIS AICYANIS AI operates as an asset-light software and infrastructure platform. Its core value lies in its proprietary orchestration, control and commercialization layer. The underlying compute hardware is financed separately at the project level, keeping the software and infrastructure financing layers cleanly separated.
"Our capital structure is a core part of the strategy. Equity finances our asset-light software and orchestration platform, where our core margins are generated, while compute infrastructure is financed separately through asset-backed project structures suited to long-term infrastructure returns. Matching each layer with the right capital makes the model both capital-efficient and scalable, and this pre-seed round lays the foundation."
Tim Kuhnert, CFO, CYANIS AIThe financing was supported by industrial entrepreneur Christian Wichmann, Managing Director of BESI Marine Systems GmbH and Heinrich Behrens Pumpenfabrik GmbH & Co.
"AI will be a foundation of technological and economic sovereignty. Germany and Europe cannot afford to sit out this race. We need significantly more sovereign AI compute capacity on our own soil. CYANIS AI is addressing this challenge with a bold yet commercially grounded model, combining distributed energy infrastructure with a proprietary orchestration platform. The team is already moving from concept to execution, and I am pleased to support them at this early stage."
Christian Wichmann, Managing Director, BESI Marine Systems GmbH & Heinrich Behrens Pumpenfabrik GmbH & Co.The platform is also designed to integrate and orchestrate existing third-party data-centre capacity, enabling infrastructure owners to participate in the CYANIS AI network without transferring ownership of their assets.
CYANIS AI is already working with partners across the energy, hardware, system integration and financing ecosystem and is preparing an initial commercial rollout targeting 10 MW of AI-compute capacity.
About Christian Wichmann
Christian Wichmann is an industrial entrepreneur and Managing Director of two established, owner-managed family businesses based in Bremen: BESI Marine Systems GmbH, a global provider of flow-management systems for the maritime industry, and Heinrich Behrens Pumpenfabrik GmbH & Co., a manufacturer of marine pump systems operating since 1949.
About CYANIS AI
CYANIS AI is accelerating the deployment of sovereign AI-compute capacity across Europe. The company combines distributed compute infrastructure across household PV systems, commercial and industrial rooftops, and large-scale energy sites through a proprietary orchestration platform.
Sovereign. Low-Latency. Industrial Scale.
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