In a significant stride for the European tech landscape, Stockholm-based Tzafon has secured a total of €8.3 million in pre-Seed funding. This marks not just a milestone for the young company, but the largest pre-Seed round ever recorded in Sweden—a powerful indicator of growing international confidence in agentic AI innovation.
“Our vision at Tzafon is to build agents from the ground up that are capable of collaborating across any digital, and in the future, physical environment. This round enables us to significantly expand our compute resources to train smarter, better, and more agentic AI models. And launch Lightcone, which will reduce the friction between intention and action across any digital device.”
–Noah Löfquist, Tzafon’s CEO and co-founder
From Vision to Action: Introducing Lightcone
Founded in 2024, Tzafon’s core focus is on building AI agents that go beyond the traditional realm of research and content generation. Instead, they’re tackling the more complex challenge: enabling artificial intelligence (AI) to independently take meaningful action within digital environments. The company’s breakthrough product, “Lightcone,” is designed as a digital agent capable of acting on a user’s behalf across virtually any application or platform.
This approach isn’t just theory. Tzafon’s models have demonstrated top performance on web-based tasks, validating their promise in benchmarks such as OSWorld. As demand for automation and digital efficiency rises, Tzafon’s vision is for these agents to bridge the “last mile” between human intention and actual execution.
High-Profile Backing and a Mission for Autonomy
The recent funding round saw participation from HV Capital, Streamlined VC, Kakao VC, Oliver Jung, and angel investors from leading global AI labs, OpenAI and xAI. This eclectic mix not only brings capital for scaling compute infrastructure and research, but also strengthens Tzafon’s network in the competitive landscape of AI development.
Engineering for Next-Gen Digital Automation
Tzafon’s innovation lies in the deep integration of advanced machine learning, reinforcement learning, and proprietary AI architectures. The goal? To empower AI agents that perform not just specific commands, but complex, multi-step tasks autonomously and effectively.
Industry voices are already recognizing the potential. As Lina Chong, Partner at HV Capital, notes, “There’s a huge gap in the market with many infrastructure challenges to make agents lightning fast, scalable, and more autonomous when it comes to performing tasks. The Tzafon team continues to release agents that are highly performant and able to function cross platform. An amazing feat for a team that’s just getting started.”
Looking Ahead: Transforming Human-AI Collaboration
With the injection of new capital, Tzafon plans to accelerate product development, strengthen its strategic market position, and make its agentic technology broadly accessible. Soon, users will be able to deploy Lightcone directly, bringing “action” to the heart of digital workflows.
This funding round is more than a nod to one company—it is a reflection of the rising tide of investment and innovation across Europe’s AI sector. Tzafon’s journey represents a critical step forward for active, autonomous AI—where digital intent converts seamlessly into real-world results.
