Finnish company Creoir raises Seed funding for voice AI in defence systems
Oulu-based Creoir has secured Seed funding from Swedish VC fund Gungnir Capital to scale its voice AI technology for defence and mission-critical systems. The investment will accelerate commercialisation of its EdgeVUI and Operator Assistant products.
Creoir, a DefenceTech company based in Oulu, Finland, has raised Seed investment from Swedish venture capital fund Gungnir Capital. The fund is leading Creoir's ongoing Seed round, which targets €2 million in total funding. The company intends to use the capital to accelerate commercialisation of its EdgeVUI and Operator Assistant products and to meet rising demand from European defence customers.
Creoir was founded in 2012 by Antti Lilja, Jaakko Mattila, and Oskari Ketola. The company specialises in embedded speech technologies and AI solutions for the defence sector, enabling operators to control complex systems — including command-and-control and combat management platforms, vehicles, sonar systems, and radios — hands-free, by voice, and without an internet connection.
Offline voice technology for critical environments
The EdgeVUI product allows operators to interact with systems by voice in their native language, while Operator Assistant is an AI-powered knowledge base offering instant access to mission-critical information. EdgeVUI relies on natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech, and signal enhancement technologies from US-based Cerence AI, all running entirely on-device without cloud dependency — a key requirement for noisy, security-sensitive environments.
Creoir CEO Antti Lilja said defence operators work under intense pressure, and hands-free voice interaction helps them stay focused on the mission. Max Villman, Managing Partner at Gungnir Capital, noted that Creoir's technology is already deployed in projects with leading European defence companies.
The company already collaborates with several of Europe's major defence primes and system integrators, including Saab, Leidos, and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). Creoir was also recently selected to participate in the NATO Innovation Range's Layered Counter-UAS Initiative (LCI-X), a NATO-led operational experiment focused on layered counter-drone capabilities.
