Utrecht-Based Comper Raises Pre-Seed Funding For Software Intelligence Platform

The new funding will support the expansion of Comper’s early access programme and further collaboration with product-led teams managing rapidly growing codebases.

Recent funding activity highlights continued investor interest in software, AI, and developer-focused platforms across Europe. In 2026, Milan-based Bricks.sh raised €1.6 million at pre-seed to automate internal admin panels, while Spain’s Fracttal secured €29.8 million to expand its AI-powered maintenance software across Europe and Latin America.

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In 2025, Stockholm-based Lovable closed a €281 million Series B to scale its AI-native application-building platform globally. Fellow Swedish startup Ivy Interactive raised €917k at pre-seed to accelerate AI-driven internal tool development.

While the round remains undisclosed, co-founder Juan Uijtewaal shared with EU-Startups that “It’s still early for Comper, so we chose not to disclose the amount or set a valuation yet. Together with our investors, we agreed to stay flexible and focus on further developing the product and growing the team, with plans to formalise this in a Seed round at a later stage.”

Elsewhere, London-based Ankar secured €17 million to grow its AI-powered IP software, while Prague-based Bandits raised €400k to simplify AI integrations for business workflows.

Altogether, these disclosed rounds represent well over €330 million invested in European software and AI platforms in 2025 and 2026, placing Comper’s undisclosed pre-seed round within a broader trend of capital flowing into tools that help teams build, understand, and scale increasingly complex software systems.

Perry Oostdam, Investor at Productfirst, adds: “After meeting the team and seeing the product, I called Pawel immediately. We didn’t want to miss this opportunity. Comper brings immediate clarity to something every scaling company struggles with; understanding their codebase as a living system. The speed at which this came together reflects the strength of both the product and the founders behind it.”

Founded in 2025 after a year in stealth, Comper is a software intelligence platform designed to help teams understand and work within complex codebases with greater clarity. By transforming a company’s codebase into a shared, explorable system, Comper aims to improve collaboration, speed up onboarding, and support more confident decision-making.

Comper was founded by Jouke Waleson, a former Mendix software engineer, CTO, and fractional CTO, and Juan Uijtewaal, an ex-Miro executive and experienced COO. Both founders have worked in high-growth environments where increasing codebase complexity directly affected development velocity, software quality, and team wellbeing.

According to the company, Comper is rethinking how engineering, product, and leadership teams collaborate by making codebases visible, explorable, and shareable across entire organisations. Often described as a “Figma for codebases,” the platform is positioned to enable faster onboarding, clearer decision-making, and more resilient software development at scale.

Pawel Smoczyk, former CTO turned investor, shares: “After years of leading engineering teams, I’ve learned that most risk doesn’t come from bad code, but from a lack of shared understanding across the team. What convinced me about Comper is that it addresses this at the root – not with more documentation, but with a clear, shared view of how the software actually works and how teams are structured around it.“

About Comper

Comper is a software intelligence platform that turns complex codebases into living, explorable maps. Built for organisations navigating scale, change, and M&A, it helps engineering, product, and leadership teams collaborate more effectively, onboard faster, reduce risk, and make clearer, more confident decisions across evolving software systems.