Graphwise, a leading graph AI provider, announced that Oakley Capital (Oakley), a leading European mid-market private equity investor, has acquired a majority stake in the company to help businesses anchor AI using verified enterprise data.
Oakley will acquire a majority stake, through its Fund VI, from an investment consortium led by Integral Capital Group, including PortfoLion Capital Partners, Carpathian Partners, and the EBRD. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The investor will partner with Graphwise's founders and management team who will continue to lead the business to support its commercial expansion and strengthen its market-leading position, according to the companies. Oakley will work closely with president Atanas Kiryakov to develop its commercial capabilities and go-to-market strategy, strengthening its footprint in key international markets, and pursuing selective strategic acquisitions in a highly fragmented market.
“AI is changing how every organization operates which makes trusted, well-governed data more important now than ever,” said Peter Dubens, founder and managing partner of Oakley Capital. “Graphwise has built an exceptional platform to solve that challenge and has already demonstrated impressive growth. We look forward to partnering with Atanas and the team to help the business build on that momentum and realize its full potential.”
The value of AI depends on the quality and reliability of the data behind it. Large language models (LLMs) are strong at processing language but have limitations, including factual consistency and explaining how they arrived at conclusions. Graphwise’s semantic backbone addresses these limitations by giving LLMs a reliable layer of facts to retrieve from and reason over, according to the company. This is valuable in regulated, data-intensive sectors such as financial services, life sciences, and the public sector, where compliance, auditability, and data governance are essential.
Graphwise's semantic context and GraphRAG engine retrieve the specific knowledge an AI model needs, instead of flooding AI with unstructured context.
The company was formed in 2024 through the merger of two pioneers in semantic technologies: Ontotext and Semantic Web Company.
“We are excited for this new partnership with Oakley, as their team understands both our technology and our ambition,” said Kiryakov. “Oakley has an outstanding track record of transforming founder-led software businesses into unicorns. Together, we look forward to expanding our platform and supporting more organizations to adopt AI with confidence.”
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