Flare

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Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Founded 2026
Latest Stage Pre-Seed
Total Raised €3.6M
Website https://flare.co
Sector
AI trust-and-safety information-verification

Investors

Alex Felix Private (2024)
Jake Brukhman Private (2024)
Howard Lindzon ~2019 (2019)
CoinFund Private (2024)
Social Leverage ~2019 (2019)

Founders

Nicolai Frost Kolborg Jacobsen Co-Founder & CEO

About

Flare is a Copenhagen-based startup building trust infrastructure for knowledge validation in the AI era 1. The company combines structured data systems with collective intelligence to help users distinguish verified from unverified information at scale 1. The founding team comes from Google, Unity, IBM, Amazon, and Corti 1.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-04-19 Pre-Seed €3.6M 20VC ByFounders, 20Growth, angel investors from Stack Overflow, GitHub, Reddit, Meta, Kahoot, HubSpot, Encord 12

What Investors Say

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What Founders Say

“The issue isn’t that people are naive — it’s that the infrastructure for discernment hasn’t scaled alongside the infrastructure for content.” — Nicolai Frost Kolborg Jacobsen, Co-Founder & CEO 1

Sources

  1. FoundersToday, “Flare secures €3.6M to build Trust Infrastructure for the AI Information Era,” April 19, 2026, accessed April 20, 2026. https://www.founderstoday.news/flare-secures-over-3m-funding/↩↩↩↩↩

  2. Sifted, “Exclusive: 20VC leads €3.6m pre-seed for ‘TikTok meets Wikipedia’ startup Flare,” accessed April 20, 2026. https://sifted.eu/articles/flare-3-6m-pre-seed-exclusive↩