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title: I Am Proud To Introduce You To Naftiko
date: 2026-01-05T09:00:00.000Z
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 - Naftiko
 - Startup
 - Investment
 - Integrations
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I’d like to introduce you to my new startup, called [Naftiko](https://naftiko.io/). You’ve probably heard me talking about it, but as of 2026, we are a real company with funding and a team. It’s real. Naftiko is focused on making integrations easier using capabilities. We are still understanding exactly what that means, but in the last six months we have done a lot of work, and I’d like to share that with you. 

In October we set up Naftiko as a business in Paris, France. Why? Because my cofounder Jerome Louvel is French, but in my opinion, there are a lot of reasons to set up shop in Europe these days—-but we will get into that another time. We already have in motion the U.S. entity, and Jerome and I both live in the US, but our engineering function will be Paris based. Initially we will be targeting NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, London, and Paris as part of our go to market motion, staying hyper focused on the integration needs in these markets. 

Alongside setting up Naftiko as a business, [we managed to close a pre-seed investment of $1.5 M from Serena Ventures with another $150K from angel investors](https://www.einpresswire.com/article/873552575/naftiko-launches-to-integrate-ai-into-the-enterprise). Serena Ventures has a solid track record of investment in commercial open source, and with their French base, they made for an ideal lead for our pre-seed investment. Serena gets the open-source realm, and saw the potential in Jerome’s vision for Natfiko, combined with my awareness and understanding of the API space over the years.

[Naftiko is a commercial open-source approach to integration](https://naftiko.io/blog/reframing-how-we-integrate-software-with-capabilities), centered on declarative standards-based and domain-aligned capabilities. Naftiko integrates with any API or data source. Naftiko speaks of existing API and data standards. The core of Naftiko is open-source and built upon existing open-source foundations. Naftiko Capabilities are run using the Naftiko Engine, which help you manage the relationship with the APIs and data sources you integrate with, helping you standardize and govern your integrations.

We will be commercializing Naftiko via what we all the Naftiko Fabric. Connecting the dots across enterprise capabilities being run across federated and centralized engines. The Naftiko Fabric helps you manage cost, risk, and velocity in a policy-driven way. Embracing the sprawl that exists across your average enterprise, and gives you the building blocks you need to begin defining, configuring, and automating many different data sources and APIs across many internal, but also external service providers you depend upon for your business.

I have a whole lot of storytelling planned around the launch of Naftiko. Blog posts on API Evangelist, Naftiko and The New Stack. We are launching a newsletter and podcast to help drive the discussion. We don’t have a product yet, and are just launching the company, while announcing our funding. We intend to develop Naftiko out in the open and drive the conversation around what is needed when it comes to integrations across our existing legacy infrastructure, and of course this new and uncertain landscape of AI integration.