Pactos secures €2.7M: agentic AI for compliant management of external staff

• Pactos closes a €2.7 million pre-seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
• Companies often operate in legal grey areas when deploying external staff. Pactos’ AI-powered software provides digital structure and legal certainty.
• The Munich-based start-up plans to use the capital to develop its agentic AI platform further and expand the team.

Munich, 10 September 2025 – Pactos has closed a €2.7 million pre-seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and joined by various industry and start-up leaders. Pactos has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that adds structure, transparency, and legal certainty to companies’ external workforce management.

A billion-euro market still running on analogue structures

Valued at over €230 billion, the market for contingent workforce management is a key driver of economic growth in Europe. Nevertheless, the organization of external workers is often still carried out using a patchwork of Excel spreadsheets and emails—a slow process that carries avoidable legal risks.

Pactos responds to these challenges with an AI-powered software solution that helps companies manage their external workforce. It allows them to review contracts automatically, manage assignments in real time, and securely document all relevant data. Based on this information, teams in procurement, HR, legal, and finance receive in-depth analyses and recommendations for action. In addition, the solution integrates seamlessly into existing IT systems such as zvoove. Pactos already manages several thousand external workers for clients including Swissport, Knuth, and Unique Personal. The software is certified according to internationally recognized standards and is fully GDPR-compliant.

“Managing  external  workforce  is  a  major  challenge  for  companies:  complex, time-consuming, and full of compliance risks. Pactos digitises the end-to-end process and has the potential to become the leading system in a billion-dollar market,” explains Björn Sykora, Principal at HTGF.

Backed by industry leaders and start-up experts

Alongside HTGF, Pactos has also gained the support of various experienced industry leaders: Dr. Sebastian Dettmers, CEO of StepStone; Jens Bender, initiator of the HR Angels Club; and Alexander Schwörer, owner of the PERI Group, will support the Munich start-up with capital and strategic expertise. Investors from the digital tech and startup scene, including Robin Haak, Managing Partner at Robin Capital, and Franzi Majer, Founding Partner of Superangels, provide additional momentum:

„We are excited to support Pactos on its journey. Their AI-powered operating system brings transparency, control, and efficiency to an often-neglected area and has the potential to shape a new category in the B2B SaaS sector.”

Fresh capital for product, team, and B2B growth

With the pre-seed funding, Pactos aims to expand its AI functionalities, strengthen its development team in the DACH region, and accelerate its B2B growth.

Antonio Zill, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pactos, explains: “We aim to build a real European powerhouse for external workforce management, enabling companies to respond quickly and efficiently to fluctuating demand. This funding allows us to refine our software end to end and better deliver on our promise: to make the use of external resources as simple and efficient as possible.”

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About Pactos
Founded in 2023 by Antonio Zill and Philipp Eckert, Pactos offers an AI-powered platform that enables companies to manage external workforces digitally and in full legal compliance – from procurement and planning to invoicing. Operating in the entire DACH region, Pactos brings structure and transparency to a previously analogue domain.

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About HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds
HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing startups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports startups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more than 790 startups and achieved 200 successful exits. HTGF has a fund volume of over 2 billion euros. 

Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, KfW Capital as well as 45 companies and family offices.  For more information, please visit HTGF.de or follow us on LinkedIn.