The Austrian company newsrooms has raised €750,000 in pre-seed funding for its AI-supported content creation platform.
Founded in 2024, the platform brands itself as an “AI text manufacturing company” and enables users to swiftly generate a variety of formats—ranging from articles, press releases, and social media posts to entire books—directly from texts, documents, or audio recordings without requiring prompts. Its AI-driven tool assists communication departments, agencies, and editorial teams in producing content more efficiently, freeing up time for strategy, creativity, and in-depth research.
Newsrooms distinguishes itself from other AI solutions through its high-quality language output, allowing for precise, personalized linguistic adaptation for each user, as well as strong data security, with all data processed exclusively within the EU.
The platform operates entirely without prompts. Users can upload text, documents, audio, or video files, or create content directly within the tool. The AI automatically converts the input into multiple formats—such as blog posts, press releases, or social media updates—so users can adapt a single text for all communication channels with just one click.
Initially incubated within Hermann Futter’s Compass Group, the company later transitioned to the founding team’s ownership following a successful initial phase. Futter continues as an investor, while Hansi Hansmann, through his Hans(wo)men Group, joined as a new investor. In June this year, newsrooms also acquired the Austrian tech media platform Trending Topics.
CEO and co-founder Erek Stoisser stated, “With newsrooms, we are not only striving for a simplification of work processes, but a sustainable transformation of content production and journalism. Due to the high response in Austria, we are already planning expansion into other European markets in the coming months.”
The founding team includes Stoisser, experienced in PR and advertising, CTO Matteo Rosoli, Head of AI Alexander Maitz, and, following the acquisition of Trending Topics, its founders Jakob Steinschaden and Bastian Kellhofer.
“With this team, we precisely combine the expertise that our target groups need daily with the technical know-how that translates these requirements into practical solutions,” Stoisser adds.
Investor Hansi Hansmann commented, “I find the vision of newsrooms fascinating. In the future, just one person can take over the content creation of an entire publishing house. I find the quality of their work particularly convincing. When Hermann Futter first told me about newsrooms, I absolutely wanted to be part of this idea. The communications industry is experiencing the second major disruption after search and social media. With new tools like newsrooms, this crisis-tested industry can now work efficiently and generate profits.”
Hermann Futter also remarked, “When I saw the tool for the first time, I immediately recognised the impact it would have on communication departments and the media industry. AI must be seen as an opportunity to produce content more efficiently and synergistically.”