From Researching LLMs to Becoming One of Europe's Top 100 Rising AI Startups

Sifted named Otera one of Europe’s top 100 rising AI startups. Alongside that, Sifted named Otera among the top 16 AI workflow automation startups to watch. Forrester, Gartner, and IDC all featured Otera across multiple reports. And the enterprises running autonomous operations in production, Allianz, Siemens, Bayer, expanded their deployments. Not pilots. Production.

Why autonomous operations is a different problem

For forty years, enterprise operations ran on fragments: RPA for tasks, APIs for system connections, dashboards for visibility. Bolting AI onto that fragmented foundation amplified the underlying problem rather than solving it. The intelligence layer isn't the gap. The gap is the control layer. The ability to unify agents, orchestration, and governance into a single operational layer that regulators can audit and operations teams can trust.

That's what Otera delivers: autonomous agents that execute end-to-end processes, with the governance enterprises in regulated industries require.

2025: the year the proof compounded

Looking back, 2025 made Otera's trajectory unmistakable.

It started with a name. Otera (previously DeepOpinion) marked the moment a company that had spent six years researching and building autonomous agents for regulated, exception-heavy operations finally had a name that matched the ambition: the start of the AUTonomous ERA.

The enterprise deployments deepened. Enterprises that had already moved into production with Otera. Allianz, Siemens, Bayer, Erste, E&, Saab expanded their deployments from claims adjudication to financial document processing to supply chain operations. Agents running core processes at scale, with humans governing exceptions. When organizations of that size run their core operations on autonomous agents, the blueprint stops being a thesis and becomes a fact.

The analyst community caught up. Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and EY all featured Otera across multiple reports in 2025, tracking the same shift enterprise buyers are living: the move from task-level automation to autonomous operations.

Platform usage grew 10x. Partners including Capgemini, Sopra Steria, and Org are now deploying Otera across their enterprise client base. This is what it looks like when a category takes shape: not a single breakthrough moment, but a year where every signal pointed in the same direction.

2026

The enterprises pulling ahead aren't asking how to make their processes faster. They're asking why humans are still handling the parts of work that agents can run. That's the question Otera exists to answer.

2025 proved it works in production, at enterprise scale, across regulated industries.

To every customer who trusted us early, every partner who helped shape the work, and every person on the team who spent this year building what autonomous operations actually look like: thank you.

See you in 2026!

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