A Founder’s Take: Why We Raised €8M and What It Means for the IT industry

We just announced that ONEiO has raised €8M in growth funding, led by Bocap with support from Fairpoint Capital.

Funding is important, but it’s not the real story. The real story is why now, and why IT leaders, service providers, architects, and operations teams need a different approach to integrations in today’s economic and technological climate.

The pressures shaping IT

1. Budgets under scrutiny
   IT spend is being challenged across industries. Large, consultancy-heavy projects are harder to justify, and CIOs are being asked to deliver outcomes with fewer resources.
   
   
2. AI-driven acceleration
   AI agents, copilots, and automation platforms are entering daily IT workflows. They bring speed, but also complexity, demanding integrations that are real-time, resilient, and secure.
   
   
3. The multi-vendor reality
   Enterprises no longer run on a single platform. Service supply chains stretch across multiple vendors and partners. This flexibility comes at a cost: more moving parts to integrate, govern, and monitor.
   
   

These trends collide in one reality: the old project-based approach to integrations doesn’t work anymore.

Beyond iPaaS: The IntegrationOps model

iPaaS was a step forward. It made building integrations easier for developers, but it left operations behind. Teams are still firefighting broken flows, managing unpredictable costs, and relying on external consultants.

In the AI era, running integrations reliably and at scale, with guaranteed outcomes, is what matters. That’s why we built IntegrationOps as a Service. It is a domain-specific, managed operating model for IT services. Integrations go live in weeks rather than months, adapt automatically as tools, vendors, and processes change, and run 24/7 with built-in monitoring, error handling, and compliance. Costs are predictable, SLAs are clear, and our focus as specialists is firmly on the realities of IT services, not on being a general-purpose integration tool.

What this means for IT roles

• CIOs & IT Leaders
  Replace unpredictable, project-heavy work with a managed capability that delivers guaranteed outcomes and transparent TCO.
  
  
• Enterprise Architects
  Gain a governed, reusable integration layer that aligns to your target architecture and keeps lifecycle control intact.
  
  
• Solution Architects & Platform Owners (ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce, etc.)
  No need to be an integration expert. ONEiO handles adaptation, mappings, and monitoring; you keep getting to keep your platform standard and develop your processes and workflows independently, free from worrying about breaking integrations.
  
  
• Integration Developers & Integration Architects
  Instead of spending time on low-level, low-value coding and maintenance, you focus on designing high-value outcomes. If you build it, we run it, removing the burden of upkeep and letting you drive innovation, not maintenance.
  
  
• IT Ops & Service Owners
  24/7 reliable, self-healing integrations. Incidents route correctly, changes don’t break workflows, outcomes are guaranteed.
  
  
• SecOps & SOC Leaders
  Real-time, bi-directional flows with guaranteed alert delivery. No blind spots, no missed threats.
  
  
• MSP & SI Leaders
  Stop sinking time into building integrations that aren’t your core business. Productize them into recurring services that scale, with guaranteed outcomes for your clients.

Why this matters for IT professionals

Across all roles, the message is the same: time is too valuable to waste on low-level, repetitive integration work. With IntegrationOps, there is no need to babysit brittle integrations, buy low-cost resources for manual maintenance, or burn cycles on custom projects that don’t scale. IT professionals can focus on more meaningful, higher-value work: designing services, driving outcomes, and enabling their organizations to move faster.

Why the funding matters

This €8M round allows us to expand further in the UK and DACH regions, grow our team of ioneers, and accelerate the development of ONEAi, our AI-powered automation for the integration lifecycle. More importantly, it allows us to keep pushing the industry forward: from iPaaS to IntegrationOps, from projects to capabilities, from fragile builds to guaranteed outcome.

Thank you

A heartfelt thank you to those who continue to believe in us (LINKITÄ HENKILÖT): Sami Lampinen (Inventure), Hadar Cars (Fairpoint Capital), and our new partners at Bocap: Julianna Borsos, Angelo Moita, and Vilma Torstila.

The next chapter of IT services won’t be defined by how quickly we can build another integration or connect systems, but by how reliably we can run them at scale. That’s the future we’re building with IntegrationOps.

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