Orasio is building video intelligence for security and sovereignty, aimed squarely at European public safety and defense needs. Founded in 2024 by Florian Fournier (a co-founder of PayFit), Arnaud Delaunay, and Fabio Gennari, the company develops AI systems that turn live and recorded video feeds into actionable information. The team blends entrepreneurial, technical, and public-sector experience: Delaunay is a Polytechnique graduate with a decade in AI and computer vision, while Gennari brings a background spanning HEC Paris, the French Council of State, and government advisory roles.
The core technology detects and analyzes critical events within video streams, either in real time as events unfold or retrospectively across recorded footage. This serves a range of operators, including law enforcement, local authorities, private security firms, and military deployments. The emphasis is on identifying meaningful events quickly and reliably in environments where missing or misreading an event has serious consequences.
A defining feature of Orasio is its sovereignty- and compliance-first design. The company positions its technology as GDPR- and EU AI Act-compliant, reflecting European values around privacy and data control. Its modular architecture supports deployment directly on cameras (on edge), on the client's own servers (on-premise), or in remote cloud servers, giving users full control over where their data lives and how it is processed. This flexibility matters for security and defense customers with strict data-handling requirements.
Orasio raised a EUR 16 million seed round, led by Frst (France), Global Founders Capital (Germany), and Expeditions Fund (Poland). The funding supports development of its video intelligence platform and expansion across security and urban-safety environments. By combining computer-vision AI with a strong sovereignty and regulatory posture, Orasio targets a European market increasingly focused on defense, public safety, and technological autonomy.