Yes. nexos.ai is a venture-backed company founded by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas, who previously co-founded Nord Security, the cybersecurity company behind NordVPN, valued at $3 billion. nexos.ai has raised over $43M combined across a 2025 seed round and Series A round, from investors including Index Ventures and Evantic Capital. nexos.ai is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified. Named nexos.ai enterprise customers include Nord Security, Oxylabs, Hostinger, Payhawk, and Pigu.lt.

Is nexos.ai the same as ChatGPT?

No. ChatGPT is a consumer chatbot built by OpenAI. nexos.ai is a business platform that provides governed access to over 200 AI models, including OpenAI's models alongside models from Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and Meta. Teams using nexos.ai access equivalent AI capabilities through one workspace, with cost controls, and observability applied to every request.

Is nexos.ai related to NordVPN?

nexos.ai was founded by Tomas Okmanas, who also co-founded Nord Security, the company that operates NordVPN. nexos.ai and Nord Security are separate, independently operated companies within the Tesonet business ecosystem, the Vilnius-based venture group that has also incubated Oxylabs. nexos.ai is not owned by NordVPN or Nord Security. Nord Security is also a named enterprise customer of nexos.ai.

Meet nexos.ai

nexos.ai is an all-in-one AI platform for smart AI adoption. The nexos.ai Gateway gives teams one secure endpoint to 200+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more, with routing, cost control, and observability built in. The nexos.ai Workspace helps business teams use those models for drafting, research, analysis, and automation.

‌Soc 2 Type 2 Certified

‌ISO 21007 & 42001

‌€38M+ Raised

‌Built in Europe

‌200+ models

‌GDPR Compliant

nexos.ai mission

The nexos.ai mission is to make smart AI adoption simple, secure, and accessible – giving every team one trusted platform to access, govern, and optimize AI at scale. Because AI shouldn't force a choice between innovation and control.

As organizations adopt more models, providers, and AI-powered tools – managing cost, governance, and reliability gets harder to manage. nexos.ai was built to remove that trade-off with one unified layer.

Meet the team

We’re a team of builders, engineers, and operators solving one of the biggest challenges in AI today — how businesses can actually use it, safely and at scale.

Tomas Okmanas

Co-founder, CEO

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Emanuelis Norbutas

Chief Technology Officer

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Justas Morkūnas

Chief Commercial Officer

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Eimantas Sabaliauskas

Co-founder

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Rasa Daunoravičienė

Chief Marketing Officer

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Žilvinas Girėnas

Head of Product

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nexos.ai product breakdown

nexos.ai is a two-part product offering both a chat-interface Workspace, and an AI Gateway.

The nexos.ai AI gateway gives you one secure, lightweight layer to access, route, and manage 200+ models. Including real-time monitoring, cost controls, and full governance, it keeps your teams shipping fast and your AI spend predictable. Instead of managing separate API keys, rate limits, and fallback logic for each provider, you route all traffic through one gateway that handles model selection through smart routing, caching, and context compression behind the scenes.

It also gives administrators central control over which models people and applications can use, along with logging and spend visibility across the whole organization. If one provider goes down or a model hits a limit, the gateway reroutes the request so your work keeps moving.

What users say about nexos.ai

The reviews below are from nexos.ai customers using the platform in production.

AI Gateway

Juras Juršėnas

COO

Oxylabs

“nexos.ai has significantly accelerated our AI transformation journey. With seamless access to the latest models and transparent cost management, we’ve gained both agility and clarity.”

AI Gateway

Dainius Kavoliūnas

Head of Product

Hostinger Horizons

“Integrating nexos.ai was seamless. It saved us the equivalent of two yearly salaries in development cost.”

AI Gateway

Boyko Karadzhov

Co-Founder and CTO

Payhawk

“Teams were exploring AI independently: great for innovation, but terrible for coordination, compliance, and budget. We needed a centralized platform that maintained security and let all teams benefit from AI at the same time.”

AI Gateway

Romas Strabeika

CIO and Head of IT

Pigu.lt

“nexos.ai transformed the core of our e-commerce operations. What would have taken us three years and millions of euros to accomplish manually, we achieved in just six weeks at a fraction of the cost.”

AI Workspace

Vytautas Romeika

CMO

Pigu.lt

“Our content team needed to optimize 4 million products in our catalog – that’s a lot. And to do it by hand would take 3 years and cost us millions of euros. That’s extremely expensive. With nexos.ai, optimizing one item is 99.8% cheaper than doing it manually.”

AI Workspace

Ilma Vienažindytė

Head of Communication

NordVPN

“Using nexos.ai has helped us save time and energy by making such everyday processes as article research, idea generation, and target audience segment classification faster and more efficient. With the help of Agents customized for every product we work with, we can now perform content review and implement suggested changes in no time.”

AI Workspace

Vismantas Balčius

Outbound Sales Lead

Nord Security

“Account verification and research used to take hours. We built an Agent to automate the process from start to finish. It handles deep account analysis and data cleanup for us, so we can jump straight into conversations with potential clients.”

AI Workspace

Giedrė Šteinė

Legal Operations Lead

Nord Security

“We built an AI Agent to answer routine legal questions using our internal knowledge and policies. AI fully manages employee FAQs so our legal team can focus on high-value, strategic work.”

AI Workspace

Lauryna Girėnienė

Head of Talent Acquisition

Nord Security

“nexos.ai saves us 10+ hours each week. We created a custom Agent that analyzes, evaluates, and writes feedback for candidates based on objective metrics. Now, we find high-quality talent in minutes and don’t waste hours writing feedback from scratch.”

Key facts about nexos.ai

Founders

Tomas Okmanas (CEO) and Eimantas Sabaliauskas, co-founders of Tesonet.

Founded

Late 2024in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Funding

$8Mseed round in January 2025, led by Index Ventures.

Funding

$30M($35M) Series A in October 2025, co-led by Evantic Capital and Index Ventures.

Headquarter

Vilnius, Lithuania.The nexos.ai platform and most supported AI models are hosted in Europe.

Security certifications

Named enterprise customers

Official website:

nexos.ai

Trust Center

trust.nexos.ai

"I can compare the emergence of AI with the creation of the cloud or even the mighty iPhone. Honestly, I haven't seen this pace of innovation in over a decade. And when something moves that fast — the only way to keep up is to build for it."