Series A · Investor brief 2026

Institutional memory.
Made intelligent.

Acervus turns fragmented enterprise knowledge into a trusted intelligence layer—so every decision starts with everything your organization already knows.

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01 / Executive summary

The operating system for what organizations know.

Knowledge is a company’s most valuable—and most underused—asset. Acervus makes it searchable, governable and actionable in seconds.

Core thesis

Enterprise intelligence compounds when memory does.

Our context engine connects documents, decisions and people into a living knowledge graph that improves with every interaction.

ARR target · 202603.4× YoY growth
Gross margin0At scaled inference economics
Net revenue retention0Expansion-led growth
02 / The problem

Knowledge grows.
Clarity doesn’t.

Critical context is trapped across tools, teams and formats. People spend more time searching and recreating than deciding.

“We don’t have an information problem. We have a context problem.”— VP Operations, design partner
01

Fragmentation at scale

Overlapping tools create disconnected versions of truth.

12+apps per team
02

Invisible knowledge loss

Context leaves every time a key employee does.

42%knowledge at risk
03

AI without trust

Generic assistants hallucinate without governed context.

68%cite trust as blocker
03 / The solution

One intelligent layer.
Every source. Every decision.

Acervus Intelligence● Secure workspace

What drove our highest-retention enterprise wins?

SYNTHESIZED FROM 14 VERIFIED SOURCES

Implementation speed and cross-team adoption were the strongest predictors.

Accounts reaching three active departments within 45 days showed 2.7× higher retention. The pattern is consistent across EMEA and North America.

QBR AnalysisCRM CohortsCS Interviews+11
Confidence98%
Sources verified14 / 14
Time saved6.4 hrs
01

Connect

Unify scattered knowledge without migrating a single file.

02

Understand

Map entities, relationships and decisions into governed context.

03

Activate

Deliver cited answers and proactive intelligence in the flow of work.

04 / Technology

A defensible context engine,
built for the enterprise.

ACERVUSContext EngineGraph + Models + Policy
ConnectorsKnowledge graph
RetrievalGovernance
AgentsAnalytics
01

Source-aware retrieval

Hybrid search and graph traversal produce answers with traceable provenance.

02

Permission-native security

Every answer inherits source-level access controls and auditability.

03

Model-agnostic orchestration

Best-fit models balance quality, latency, sovereignty and unit economics.

04

Compounding data moat

Organization-specific graphs deepen with usage, creating durable switching costs.

05 / Market opportunity

A category-defining shift
in how work gets done.

Generative AI is moving from horizontal copilots to secure, context-rich systems embedded in core workflows.

Enterprise AI market · 2030024% CAGR · Management estimate
Knowledge workers globally0Addressable end users
Hours lost searching / week0Structural productivity gap
06 / TAM · SAM · SOM

A large market.
A focused entry.

We win first where knowledge is complex, regulated and high-value—then expand horizontally.

TAM€38BEnterprise knowledge & AI
SAM€9.4BEU + US mid-market
SOM€470M5-year target
Total addressable market

220k enterprises × €173k average annual platform spend.

Serviceable available market

52k regulated and knowledge-dense organizations.

Serviceable obtainable market

2,350 target accounts at €200k mature ACV.

Source: management estimates based on public market data and bottom-up account analysis.
07 / Competitive analysis

Built for depth,
designed for adoption.

Acervus combines the ease of a modern search product with the control and intelligence demanded by enterprises.

CapabilityAcervusEnterprise SearchGeneric CopilotsLegacy KM
Unified knowledge graph
Source-level governance
Proactive intelligence
Model independence
Time to valueDaysMonthsDaysMonths
● Native◐ Partial○ Limited
08 / Business model

Enterprise SaaS economics.
Usage-driven expansion.

PLATFORM

Annual subscription

€36k–€240k/ year

Tiered by indexed knowledge, active users and governance requirements.

  • Core platform access
  • Admin & governance
  • Standard connectors
INTELLIGENCE

Usage expansion

€0.04/ action

Consumption-based intelligence actions create natural expansion revenue.

  • Agentic workflows
  • Advanced reasoning
  • Proactive insights
ENTERPRISE

Services & ecosystem

15–20%of ACV

High-margin onboarding, premium integrations and partner-led services.

  • Custom integrations
  • Knowledge design
  • Success programs
Target ACV€84k
Gross margin82%
CAC payback14 mo
LTV : CAC6.2×
09 / Go to market

Land with urgency.
Expand with value.

A focused enterprise motion turns one high-stakes workflow into a company-wide intelligence layer.

01

Design partners

Target operations, legal and R&D leaders with urgent knowledge pain.

€20–40k pilot
02

Prove value

Deploy in under 14 days and quantify search time, reuse and decision speed.

8–12 week proof
03

Expand

Add teams, sources and agentic workflows via executive sponsorship.

124% target NRR
04

Scale ecosystem

Channel partners accelerate regulated verticals and international reach.

30% partner-sourced
10 / Financial projections

Disciplined growth.
Compounding returns.

ARR · 2030€42.0M
Management case
20262027202820292030
ARR CAGR143%2026–2030
Break-evenQ2 ’29Operating cash flow
2030 customers410€102k blended ACV
2030 EBITDA18%€7.6M

Forward-looking projections reflect management assumptions and are provided for discussion purposes; actual results may vary.

11 / Roadmap

From intelligence layer
to category standard.

2025

Foundation

Core graph, 12 connectors, security architecture, design partners.

Complete
2026

Product-market fit

Enterprise agents, EU market entry, repeatable sales motion.

Now
2027

Scale

US expansion, partner channel, vertical intelligence packs.

Next
2028+

Platform

Developer ecosystem, autonomous workflows, global category leadership.

Vision
12 / Investment round

Raising €8M
to own the category.

Series A to scale go-to-market, deepen our proprietary context engine and establish Acervus as Europe’s enterprise knowledge intelligence leader.

Target closeQ4 2026
Runway24 months
Milestone€8M ARR
InstrumentPreferred
13 / Use of funds

Capital deployed
with precision.

Every euro is tied to a measurable product, revenue or market milestone.

42%

Product & AI

Context engine, agents, security and engineering talent.

€3.36M
31%

Go to market

Enterprise sales, demand generation and US entry.

€2.48M
17%

Customer success

Implementation, solutions and partner enablement.

€1.36M
10%

Operations

Finance, legal, compliance and working capital.

€0.80M
14 / Team

Built by operators
who know the problem.

Enterprise software, applied AI and go-to-market experience united by one conviction: knowledge should compound.

AM

Ana Martins

Co-founder & CEO

Former VP Product · scaled enterprise SaaS from €0–30M ARRin
DC

David Chen

Co-founder & CTO

Former AI research lead · knowledge graphs & retrieval systemsin
SR

Sofia Rossi

Chief Revenue Officer

15 years enterprise GTM · built teams across EMEA and the USin
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15 / The vision

The world’s most important
decisions should never start
from zero.

Acervus gives every organization a memory that understands, learns and acts—turning accumulated knowledge into enduring advantage.

Build the future with us
16 / Contact

Let’s build a company
that remembers.

We’re partnering with investors who share our long-term view of enterprise intelligence.

Confidential materials shared after verification.

17 / AI Vision

From document storage
to organizational intelligence.

Acervus will evolve every document into an active, trusted source of context—understanding content, anticipating risk and accelerating decisions.

Today

Documents are passive records

Teams manually classify, search, validate and interpret growing repositories.

Tomorrow

Documents become active intelligence

Acervus reads, connects and acts on governed knowledge across every workflow.

Human accountablePrivacy by designExplainable by defaultModel independent
18 / AI Roadmap

A measured path to the Intelligent Document Management Platform.

Four product horizons turn trusted document infrastructure into a defensible intelligence system.

H1 · 202601

Understand

OCR, classification, entity extraction and semantic indexing across the full repository.

  • Document Intelligence
  • Semantic Search
  • AI metadata
H2 · 202602

Assist

Grounded conversational workflows with citations, permissions and multilingual understanding.

  • AI Assistant
  • Intelligent Search
  • Smart summaries
202703

Protect

Continuous risk monitoring, retention automation and explainable compliance recommendations.

  • Compliance AI
  • PII detection
  • Policy agents
2028+04

Predict

Proactive intelligence anticipates bottlenecks, content needs and organizational risk.

  • Predictive Analytics
  • Autonomous workflows
  • Decision intelligence
19 / AI Assistant

Every answer grounded in your truth.

A secure, multilingual copilot answers questions, summarizes complex files and executes document workflows—with citations down to the source passage.

  • Ask naturallyUnderstand questions in Portuguese and English.
  • Verify instantlyEvery claim links to its source and permission context.
  • Act safelyDraft, classify and route documents with human approval.
✦ Acervus AssistantPrivate · Governed
Summarize the renewal risks in our supplier contracts.
Three contracts require attention this quarter.

Two include automatic renewal clauses with 60-day notice periods. One supplier has a price-indexation clause above the approved threshold.

Supplier_Agreement.pdf · §8.2Procurement_Policy.pdf · p.14
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Compliance monitorLive
92/100
Repository compliance score
Retention policiesAligned
PII exposure3 reviews
Access anomaliesNone
22 / Compliance AI

Continuous compliance, explainable by design.

AI identifies sensitive data, policy gaps and retention risks across the repository—then recommends auditable action under human control.

GDPRISO 27001EU AI ActData residency
23 / Document Intelligence

Every file becomes
structured, usable knowledge.

Acervus transforms unstructured content into reliable metadata, relationships and actions at ingestion.

PDF

Ingest

Any format, language or source.

Understand

OCR, classify, extract and connect.

JSON

Activate

Search, automate and analyze.

Entity recognition 98.4%Document classification 97.1%Key-value extraction 95.8%
24 / Predictive Analytics

See what needs attention
before it becomes urgent.

Repository signals become forward-looking intelligence for operations, compliance and leadership.

Document risk forecastNext 90 days
Today30 days60 days90 days
Contracts at risk24↑ 8 this month
Renewals forecast€1.8M92% confidence
Hours preventable680Next quarter
25 / AI Investment Accelerator

Funding intelligence at platform scale.

€3.36M of the round is allocated to AI research, product development and production deployment—expanding applied research, model evaluation, responsible AI, inference infrastructure and specialist engineering.

42%of the round · Product & AI