Palette, a Copenhagen start-up building an operating system for AI-native teams, raised a €3m (about $3.5m) pre-seed round announced on 11 August 2026. Ugly Duckling Ventures led it.
Emblem, Acadian Ventures and a group of angel investors also took part, according to Tech.eu and Oresund Startups. No valuation was disclosed.
Pulse 2.0 listed a group of angel investors, among them executives from Danish companies including Boozt, Airtame, Forecast, Tonsser and Goodiebox, and the founders of Mastra.
“There will always be a newer model.”Brian Kyed, Co-founder, Palette
What Palette does
Palette separates a company's AI models from its internal context, workflows and knowledge, so a team can switch models or providers without losing its data. Tech.eu said the idea is that the responsible way to adopt AI is to make the model swappable and make company context durable.
Palette Desktop, the first product, lets teams run AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex on their own files and folders, using cloud models or local models for sensitive data. It is available to paying customers. The broader Palette OS is planned to include a company-owned context library, shared AI skills and a connector gateway that lets a team connect its tools once for several agents. Design partners are using it.
Oresund Startups reported that early paying customers include teams in sales, operations and product development, not only engineering. None were named.
Pulse 2.0 reported that Palette Desktop supports Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Mistral, as well as Palette's own agent. Users choose an agent for a task and review changes before saving. It is available for Mac, with a Windows version planned.
Pulse 2.0 said Palette built the product after its own team ran many AI agents whose work stayed trapped in separate sessions, forcing people to re-explain context again and again. Its summary of the approach is to own the context and swap the model.
Who is behind it
Tech.eu named the founders as Brian Kyed, Lars Ettrup, Steffen D. Sommer and Christian Lomholt. The company was founded in 2025 and is based in Copenhagen. Neither source gave a headcount, though Oresund Startups said Palette plans to grow its team.
Kyed said there will always be a newer model, which is the case for keeping context separate from the model.
Who invested
Andreas Green Rasmussen, a partner at Ugly Duckling Ventures, said the firm believes Palette can become the operating layer for teams adopting AI across the whole company.
The round is a pre-seed, and the sources did not report earlier funding.
What the money is for
Palette will use the funds to expand its sales operations and grow the team, and to continue building and rolling out the platform, according to Tech.eu and Oresund Startups.
Company website: palette.team