Illusian family office participates in CodeWork’s €7.6M seed round

London-based CodeWords, an AI agent platform, has raised €7.6 million (approximately $9 million) in a seed funding round to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams. The round was led by early-stage venture capital firm Visionaries, with participation from Firstminute Capital — which had already backed the company at pre-seed stage — Sequel, and Illusian. A group of angel investors also joined the cap table, including the chief executives of Miro, ElevenLabs, Personio, Zalando, and Supercell, as well as leaders from OpenAI, Mistral, n8n, and Zapier. Founded in 2023 by Aymeric Zhuo and Osman Ramadan — who previously worked at Microsoft, Palantir, Meta, and PolyAI — CodeWords builds Cody, an AI agent that learns a business’s tools and workflows and executes repetitive tasks autonomously, without requiring users to write or maintain code. The company reports that Cody already processes 500,000 workflows per month. Alongside the funding announcement, CodeWords launched three new product capabilities: contextual memory, WhatsApp integration, and configurable agent execution modes.

About Illusian: Helsinki-based venture capital family office

Illusian is a Helsinki-based family office founded by a collective of technology entrepreneurs who built and scaled companies including Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, Smartly, and Supermetrics. The most prominent co-founder of Illusian is Ilkka Paananen, who also co-founded Supercell. Operating under the self-description of a “Founder Office for founders and founder-minded operators,” it pools the capital, networks, and operational expertise of multiple founders rather than serving a single family or principal.  Its venture portfolio includes investments in DeepL, n8n, Limbic, Linear, Bluefors, Solugen, Gameto, and Tebi, alongside a philanthropy arm supporting causes in youth mental health, education, and reproductive science research.

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Article Source: EU Startups, 01.06.2026