Tekst secures €11.5M to scale Process Intelligence for agentic AI in enterprise operations

McKinsey's State of AI 2025 report found that, while 62% of organisations are experimenting with AI agents, no more than 10% of companies have scaled them in any business function. Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. The models are capable. What is missing is a software layer that explains how the business actually operates.

Tekst is the Belgian startup building that layer. Founded in Ghent in 2022 by Wouter Janssen (CEO) and Tiebe Parmentier (CTO), the company has developed what it calls Process Intelligence, a platform that reconstructs the genuine flow of work inside an enterprise by analysing existing digital trails, from emails and documents to system events. How does it work effectively? The system automatically surfaces unwritten rules, customer-specific exceptions, and cross-system handoffs, thus enabling AI agents to act within the reconstructed model and connect to SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft without the need for a re-platforming project.

The company has just closed an €11.5 million Series A funding round led by US venture firm Elephant, with participation from Entourage. The capital will fund international expansion and continued platform development.

McKinsey and Gartner findings converge on the same point: agentic AI stalls not because the models are underperforming, but because they lack the operational context required to make reliable decisions in real back-office conditions. Tekst's process intelligence layer directly addresses this issue by providing the structural understanding that sits between enterprise systems and the agents expected to run on top of them.

Sources: Tekst | McKinsey State of AI 2025 | Gartner

Founders: Wouter Janssen, Tiebe Parmentier