Undisclosed · Seed · Cybersecurity, Defence · Oulu, Finland
Oulu-based Creoir has secured an undisclosed seed investment from Swedish defence investor Gungnir Capital to commercialise voice AI for defence and other mission-critical systems. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate its EdgeVUI and Operator Assistant products and support deliveries to European defence customers.
The investment amount was not disclosed. EU-Startups and Resilience Media report that Gungnir is leading an ongoing seed round with a €2m target and an expected close by year-end. That target describes the round Creoir is still raising, rather than the amount already secured.
Turning voice pilots into fielded systems
Creoir's commercial pitch starts with a specific operating constraint: personnel using command-and-control, combat-management, vehicle, sonar or radio systems may need to act while their hands and attention are occupied. EdgeVUI processes speech on the device, works offline and is designed for noisy, security-critical environments. Operator Assistant adds voice access to mission information through an AI-powered knowledge base.
That architecture gives Creoir a route into systems where cloud dependence is impractical, but the financing does not mean broad deployment has already been achieved. The company says it has ongoing projects with Saab, Leidos and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. Resilience Media reports that its defence push began with a paid Saab pilot for the 9LV Combat Management System and that the current milestone is converting pilots into commercial deployments.
The integration model matters. Creoir is positioning its software as an added interface for existing mission-critical systems rather than asking customers to replace the underlying platform. That can reduce adoption friction, while still leaving the company exposed to defence customers' testing, integration and procurement cycles. CEO Antti Lilja told Resilience Media that budgets and procurement timing will influence how quickly deployments advance.
Creoir brings a longer engineering history than a typical seed-stage company. Founded in Oulu in 2012 by a team with Nokia embedded-systems experience, it initially worked across mobile, industrial and IoT voice applications. Resilience Media reports that the business shifted toward its own product in 2020 before focusing more fully on defence. Gungnir's investment now backs the transition from validated customer projects to repeatable fielded capability.
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Fixing Fragmentation: How Unified Regulation Can Unlock European Innovation — Speedinvest & Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, partner article hosted on EUVC · 3 December 2025. Its public-procurement analysis explains why validated defence pilots can still face long, fragmented routes to deployment across Europe.
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