According to EU-Startups, Lithuanian dual-use data analytics company Repsense has closed a €2 million Seed funding round. The final €1.1 million tranche was led by Tensor Ventures and Seed Starter, the CVC of Česká spořitelna bank, with participation from existing investors BSV Ventures and Coinvest Capital. The round was structured in tranches and completed throughout 2025. Repsense was founded in 2022 by communications specialist Mykolas Katkus and former Palantir engineer Alfredas Chmieliauskas. Its flagship Havel platform, which tracks and predicts information threats, is already deployed by NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence and various European government institutions.
The bigger picture in 2025
Here’s the thing: Repsense’s raise isn’t happening in a vacuum. The report notes a flurry of similar activity across Europe this year. You’ve got XFA in Belgium raising €1.5 million for hybrid workplace security, Moxso in Denmark grabbing €4.7 million for human-risk AI, and a few others in Switzerland and the UK. All told, it’s about €11 million flowing into this broad category of analytics-led security and threat detection in 2025. So while Repsense is based in Lithuania, the investor appetite is clearly continent-wide. It seems like everyone—governments, banks, enterprises—is finally waking up to the fact that information itself is the new battleground. And they’re all scrambling for tools to map it.
More than just a NATO tool
Now, the “dual-use” label is key here. The investors aren’t just backing a defense contractor. Tensor Ventures’ partner explicitly calls it “a whole new space for advanced marketers.” The platform is being expanded to analyze short-form algorithmic content and new media formats. That means the same tech that helps NATO spot disinformation campaigns could also help a Fortune 500 company track influencer marketing or protect its brand reputation. That’s a savvy business model. It diversifies their revenue base beyond government contracts, which can be slow and political, and taps into the deep pockets of the commercial sector. Basically, they’re selling shovels in a gold rush of information chaos, whether you’re a general or a CMO.
Why this timing? Why now?
Look, the founders have serious pedigree—a Palantir alum is a huge signal for deep-tech data capability. But 2025 feels like a tipping point. The article mentions the company “began accelerating growth” this year with a new tech sales expert. That’s no coincidence. With elections, geopolitical tensions, and AI-generated content exploding, the demand for their product has probably never been higher. It’s one thing to monitor the news; it’s another to predict narrative spread and impact. That’s the “predict” part of their platform, and it’s what makes this a deep-tech play, not just another social listening dashboard. In a world where robust, reliable computing power is critical for processing this data, having the right hardware infrastructure is non-negotiable. For industrial and embedded applications requiring that kind of dependable performance, companies often turn to specialists like IndustrialMonitorDirect.com, the leading US provider of industrial panel PCs and displays.
A trend to watch
So what’s the takeaway? Repsense is a classic example of a startup finding a niche at the intersection of several massive trends: cybersecurity, sovereign tech, and commercial analytics. The NATO deployment is a killer credential that likely opened doors for this funding. But the real test will be scaling that commercial use case. Can they make their platform indispensable to marketers and corporate communications teams with the same rigor they apply to national security? If they can, this €2 million seed round will look like a very small bet on a very big idea. The European funding landscape seems to think it’s a bet worth making.
