Digicust finalizes pre-Series A financing round and strengthens the expansion of its AI customs platform

This is a translation of the German press release.

Vienna Airport. The Austrian AI startup Digicust, specializing in the automation of customs processes, has successfully completed its pre-Series A financing round. As part of this final expansion, Jet Investment is investing €950,000 through its venture capital fund Jet Venture 1, SICAV, while the Look.AI Fund is contributing €250,000. Together with existing investors, the total volume of the seed round amounts to €2.3 million. An additional €550,000 comes from selected private investors in the industry and from the Digicust co-founding team. Through the FlexCo conversion, they were given the opportunity to convert their invested amounts into equity. Digicust is also receiving support from Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws), which is providing €500,000 in financing through its "Equity Leverage" guarantee program. In addition, Digicust was able to secure a further 50,000 euros from a marketing and internationalization program for the development and cultivation of international target markets.

Since 2020, Digicust has been developing an AI-powered platform that automates complex customs workflows for logistics companies, customs brokers, and exporters, significantly reducing processing times and error rates. The platform utilizes modular AI components for intelligent document processing, automatic tariff classification, export control, customs audits, customs declaration completion, and many other functions. The solution is already in use in several European countries, employed by over 60 corporate clients, and has processed more than 500,000 customs declarations to date. Digicust places particular emphasis on trustworthy AI and is certified according to IEEE standards by TÜV SÜD.

"With this final increase, we have provided Digicust with precisely the right interim financing ahead of an upcoming Series A round. This lays the foundation for further expansion and prepares us for the global scaling of our solutions," says Borisav Parmakovic, CEO of Digicust. "The fact that investors like JetVentures and Look.AI consider our technology to be leading and future-oriented in the customs sector confirms our course and our product strategy."

Kamil Levinský, Managing Director at Jet Ventures, adds: "Digicust is setting a new standard for the automation of customs processes in Europe because the combination of proprietary technology and deep AI know-how enables customers to significantly increase accuracy and productivity in customs clearance."

About Digicust

The Austrian AI startup Digicust is based at Vienna Airport and specializes in automating customs processes. The company is developing a platform that digitizes and automates key steps in customs clearance.

About Jet Investment

Jet Investment a.s., founded in 1997, is a Czech investment company focused on industrial investments in Central Europe and manages approximately CZK 17 billion across four funds for qualified investors. The private equity funds invest in medium-sized industrial companies with high growth potential; the real estate fund, Jet Industrial Lease, invests in industrial properties in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The venture capital fund, Jet Venture 1, established in 2024, focuses on B2B startups in the industrial sector. Jet Investment's co-owners are partners Igor Fait, Marek Malík, Lubor Turza, and Libor Šparlinek.

About LookAI

LookAI aims to build and strengthen the global AI startup ecosystem: Through capital, networking, expertise, and mentoring, it will support startups pursuing disruptive business models with AI. The fund specifically addresses the anticipated growth trajectory of the AI ​​market, based on forecasts predicting a massive economic impact from AI. They invest globally, not just in the Czech Republic or Europe, if a startup can demonstrate strong technical capabilities and scalable AI models.