{"id":649701,"date":"2025-01-17T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:05:14","slug":"nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help enterprises take AI projects from pilot to production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256fe63ae84\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a256fe63ae84\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production\/#Capitalizing_on_a_catalyst\" >Capitalizing on a catalyst<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production\/#From_idea_to_inception\" >From idea to inception<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new AI orchestration startup from the founders of Lithuanian unicorn <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/nordsecurity.com\/\">Nord Security<\/a> is setting out to help enterprises put their AI projects into production, with an initial focus on bringing greater visibility, security and adaptability to large language models (LLMs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/nexos.ai\/\">Nexos.ai<\/a>, as the startup is called, is the handiwork of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tokmanas\/\">Tomas Okmanas<\/a> (pictured above) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eimis\/\">Eimantas Sabaliauskas<\/a>, who built one of the most recognizable brands not only in Lithuania, but in all of Europe. Nord Security, best known for its flagship VPN product NordVPN, bootstr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed its way through its first 10 years before succumbing to a bumper $100 million investment in 2022 at a $1.6 billion valuation (it later hit a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/nordsecurity.com\/blog\/nord-security-raised-another-100m-investment-round\">$3 billion valuation<\/a> during a subsequent fundraise).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their new company is exiting stealth today with $8 million in funding from a slew of high-profile backers, including lead investor Index Ventures, which has now made its first ever investment into Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve known of Tomas and the work that he\u2019s done for many years, so as soon as we heard that he was building a new company in the AI space, and was finally willing to take venture capital money at this [early] stage, we were very eager,\u201d Index Ventures\u2019 partner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hannahseal\/\">Hannah Seal<\/a> told TechCrunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other notable investors include Creandum and Dig Ventures, and prominent angels such as the CEOs of Datadog, Klarna, Supercell, and Wix also participated.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-capitalizing-on-a-catalyst\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Capitalizing_on_a_catalyst\"><\/span>Capitalizing on a catalyst<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, teams that want to put their AI into production have to connect myriad tools, which likely involves recruiting and building teams with the necessary skills. This is where Nexos.ai wants to step in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen that there\u2019s a big gap between running AI as pilots and going into production,\u201d Okmanas told TechCrunch in an interview. \u201cWhen you\u2019re testing AI in your lab, it might work and it can be useful, but when you want to put it into production, especially in enterprises, how do you ensure high availability? How do you ensure security? How do you manage cost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nord Security\u2019s been around for more than a decade, but five years ago, it was folded into an umbrella company called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tesonet.com\/\">Tesonet<\/a>, an incubator with a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tesonet.com\/companies\/\">portfolio<\/a> of more than two-dozen businesses. One of these is web-hosting firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.co.uk\/\">Hostinger<\/a>, which recently added <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.co.uk\/ai-website-builder\">AI-enabled smarts to its website building tool<\/a>. Okmanas, a Hostinger board member and shareholder, said some of the issues they encountered served as a catalyst for what would eventually become Nexos.ai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe wanted to employ AI in our website builder, so we turned on OpenAI, we started testing it, and we put it in production,\u201d Okmanas said. \u201cIn August, we had $150,000 billed. For what? Why was it so expensive? There was no visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?w=680\" alt=\"AI website builder on Hostinger\" class=\"wp-image-2948251\" style=\"width:406px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png 868w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=150,131 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=300,261 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=768,669 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=680,592 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=430,375 430w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=720,627 720w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=800,697 800w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=668,582 668w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=431,375 431w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=708,617 708w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-16-at-15.00.34.png?resize=610,531 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"wp-element-caption__text\">AI website builder on Hostinger<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-image__credits\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong>Hostinger<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when OpenAI went down a handful of times, Okmanas was convinced that something had to be done to make it easier to deploy, manage and optimize the \u201cincreasingly complex ecosystem of AI models\u201d that organizations may need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through a simple API (application programming interface), customers can access more than 200 AI models, from big-name incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic to smaller, niche LLMs. The idea is, if OpenAI goes down, a company can temporarily (and automatically) switch to a different provider without breaking stride. Or if the costs involved in accessing a specific LLM explode for whatever reason, a company can transition to another one to keep their costs down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nexos.ai also ushers \u201cintelligent caching\u201d into the mix \u2014 if a particular question is repeated by multiple users, the system can turn to its own database rather than continuing to engage the LLM, which can get expensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the security and compliance fronts, Nexos.ai also prevents individuals from sending private data to LLM providers, or if an employee leaves a company, their access can be terminated im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1514\" height=\"1027\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?w=680\" alt=\"Nexos.ai\" class=\"wp-image-2948345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=150,102 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=300,204 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=768,521 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=680,461 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=1200,814 1200w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=1280,868 1280w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=430,292 430w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=720,488 720w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=900,611 900w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=800,543 800w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=668,453 668w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=553,375 553w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=910,617 910w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nexos-ai-visual-for-press-release-03-e1737047817493.jpg?resize=708,480 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1514px) 100vw, 1514px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"wp-element-caption__text\">Nexos.ai<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-image__credits\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong>Nexos.ai<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no escaping the elephant in the room, though: One of the reasons enterprises have been hesitant to embrace AI is the thorny issue of data security \u2014 healthcare companies, banks, or insurance firms can\u2019t simply trust LLM providers with all their sensitive information. It\u2019s worth noting that Hostinger itself was hit with a data breach in 2019 and NordVPN has also been hacked in the past \u2014 the sort of attacks that all companies face today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This raises questions around how Nexos.ai handles such data, given that it is hosting everything on its own infrastructure. Okmanas said the company will likely offer self-hosting in the future, and that it already supports integrations with companies\u2019 own internal LLMs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also has guardrails in place to detect when data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), is sent to it \u2014 in such cases, it can re-route the data back to the originating company\u2019s own LLMs or database. But if a query is generic, like a customer asking an AI agent for details about their location and opening hours, then the query will be handled on the Nexos.ai side.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-from-idea-to-inception\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_idea_to_inception\"><\/span>From idea to inception<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going from an idea to formal incorporation took Nexos.ai around six weeks, and while the speed of securing the funding was largely down to the founders\u2019 pedigree, a big part of it was simply the timing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve finally gone beyond the hype of AI, and now the real-world applications are coming,\u201d Seal added. \u201cAll the large enterprises are realizing this is really meaningful, and they need to adopt AI at scale. And now is the time for the infrastructure to catch up with the models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The speed of execution, though, was substantively due to the broader organizational setup at Tesonet, which has around 4,000 employees across its portfolio. This enabled Okmanas to quickly assemble a team of around 30 people who he knew and trusted to work on Nexos.ai full-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have these teams that can really join forces \u2014 they\u2019ve been working together for so many years, there\u2019s no need to tell them what\u2019s what,\u201d Okmanas said. \u201cWe\u2019ll also be hiring from the outside, but that takes much more time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nexos.ai\u2019s platform is set to launch by the end of March, though Okmanas said it is already working with a bunch of \u201cbeta customers and design partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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