Copenhagen-based Interhuman AI Secures €2 Million In Pre-Seed Round

The round was led by PSV Tech, a Nordic venture capital firm focused on ambitious AI founders. Other participants included EIFO (Export and Investment Fund of Denmark), Antler, The Yope Foundation, and notable angel investors from Ada Ventures.

Interhuman AI’s mission is to create a world where technology truly understands people — not just our words, but the many subtle signals beneath them.

Interhuman AI uses a mix of computer vision, audio analysis, psychology and behavioral science to help AI understand human social signals. Their technology can read facial expressions, body language, and voice tone to figure out what a person is really feeling or trying to communicate.

For example, a smile while leaning forward might show interest, but the same smile while leaning back could suggest something different. This social awareness feature can be added to any AI system with just a few lines of code.

Adding social intelligence to AI makes it more natural and personal, especially in areas like training, coaching, and healthcare. In learning, it helps tailor the experience to each person’s style and needs.

In digital health, it allows for real-time, empathetic support. In sales training AI can assess not just what someone says, but how they say it looking at things like confidence and clarity. In customer service, AI bots with social awareness can better handle frustration or hesitation in a customer’s tone.

While AI is improving quickly, most systems still miss out on up to 93% of non-verbal communication. This is a huge gap, especially since around half of the $757 billion global AI market involves human-AI interaction—and 40% of those cases could benefit from AI that understands non-verbal cues.

Paula Petcu, co‑founder of Interhuman AI, comments, “The global AI market is growing fast. However, to realise the full potential of AI solutions, it needs to take into consideration all aspects of human behaviour. AI isn’t just about efficiency and workflow optimisation – it is about human interaction…. Without the solution that we are building, we think that AI developers will continue to struggle to deliver impactful solutions that allow for human‑AI understanding, resulting in failure and disappointment with what AI can do.”

The funding will be used to build a platform and API that give access to Interhuman AI’s socially aware core models. It will also help grow the development team by hiring more AI engineers.

Alexander Viterbo‑Horten, Partner at PSV Tech, comments: “We’re only just beginning to see what happens when social intelligence is built into AI. This breakthrough has the potential to transform healthcare, education, and any sector where human‑AI interaction matters. Research already shows that automating behavioural coding with AI makes mental health diagnostics far more reliable, while avoiding the bias that comes with manual coding. Interhuman AI is leading this shift with rare technical depth, scientific rigour, and the ambition to unlock this frontier.”

He adds: “Interhuman AI is exactly the kind of technological breakthrough Europe needs. It shows that European founders can lead in frontier AI, while staying true to the ethical and scientific standards that will define global trust in technology.”

This is PSV Tech’s third AI-focused investment from Fund II since it started in May, showing the Nordic region’s strength in AI innovation.

Interhuman AI’s founding team combines AI skills, startup know-how and strong academic backgrounds. CEO Paula Petcu, one of Europe’s few female technical AI co-founders, was previously CTO at Brain+. Co-founder and COO Frederik Sally brings experience in product and operations.

CSO Line Clemmensen is a professor of AI and machine learning at the Technical University of Denmark and Copenhagen University. The team also gets expert advice in psychology, user experience, business development, and AI.

Michael Wiatr, Partner at Antler, commented: “Interhuman AI is bringing humanity to AI. In a world increasingly dominated by AI, empowering new technologies to understand the wealth of non‑verbal communication that we take for granted will be transformational. Interhuman AI has a world‑class founding team that combines technical expertise with a real passion and determination to make AI more socially aware. We are delighted to have backed them and have every confidence in their future success.”

About Interhuman AI

Interhuman AI adds a social intelligence layer to AI, decoding 93% of non-verbal human communication like facial expressions, body language, and tone. It enhances any AI platform by detecting emotions and engagement in real-time, enabling more natural, adaptive, and meaningful human-machine conversations.