Aiven Acquires Flow AI to Bring Agent Infrastructure Closer to Production Data

Helsinki, Finland — Aiven has acquired Flow AI, a company building infrastructure for production-grade analytical AI agents. The integration of Flow AI technology will accelerate Aiven's product roadmap and make it easier for customers to securely and scalably run production AI applications and agents next to their data.

Aiven acquired Flow AI because the interface to data is changing. Agents are becoming the new medium for businesses to interact with their data, and this shift demands infrastructure to build reliable agents that run alongside production data. By bringing Flow AI’s agent infrastructure together with Aiven’s managed open-source data platform, Aiven is removing the complexity that typically stalls AI projects, allowing customers to deploy agents with the confidence and scalability they already rely on for their data.

“Agents are only as good as the infrastructure serving them - the freshness of the data, the reliability of the context, and the quality of evaluations they are exposed to. The Flow AI team brings deep, hard-won expertise in building reliable agent infrastructure. We are building towards a unified platform that brings together agent-native tooling and production data, so customers can confidently run AI workloads in production. We are delighted to welcome Flow AI to Aiven,” said Oskari Saarenmaa, CEO and Co-Founder, Aiven.

The team behind Flow AI has been developing production AI systems since 2020. Their first product, Flowrite, was one of the earliest and most widely adopted AI productivity tools with hundreds of thousands of users. The Flow AI team then turned their attention to harder infrastructure problems like how to make AI agents act safely and reliably over structured data at scale. Today, Flow AI builds infrastructure for production-grade analytical agents, providing the runtime, data layer, and evaluation tools that enable SaaS teams to embed reliable, customer-facing AI agents directly into their products.

“We've spent years making AI work on real data and were involved in the evolution from the earliest LLMs to today's agentic systems. Aiven has spent a decade building data infrastructure the right way, open, portable and developer-centric. Bringing our harness, evaluation and context work onto that foundation lets us ship agents to far more teams than we could reach alone. I'm convinced Aiven can become a generational AI infrastructure company, and we couldn’t be more excited to be part of it,” said Aaro Isosaari, CEO and Co-Founder, Flow AI.

Flow AI Founders; Aaro Isosaari, Karolus Sariola and Bernardo Garcia del Rio

About Aiven
Aiven is the open data platform for production AI. It runs managed Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Valkey, OpenSearch, and DataHub under one control plane across AWS, GCP, Azure, and other clouds so platform and data teams can ship AI applications on fresh, governed data without vendor lock-in or infrastructure overhead. Every service runs on genuine open source with no proprietary forks so data and workloads stay portable. Aiven is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with teams across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Learn more at aiven.io.

About Flow AI
Flow AI builds the harness for production-grade analytical AI agents: the runtime, data layer, and evaluation tooling that lets modern SaaS teams embed reliable, customer-facing data agents inside their own products. Flow AI was backed by Project A, Lifeline Ventures, and Seedcamp.