Velatir Secures €5M Seed Funding to Expand AI Infrastructure Across Europe

Velatir, a Danish AI startup, has secured €5 million in seed funding to expand its AI infrastructure platform across Europe. The funding round was co-led by new investor Spintop Ventures and existing investor Ugly Duckling Ventures. This investment comes six months after Velatir raised its pre-seed round and follows the company's commercial launch.

Expansion Plans

The new funding will be used to accelerate Velatir's expansion across Europe and recruit additional talent as it scales to meet growing customer demand. Velatir is developing an infrastructure layer designed to help companies manage the growing use of AI across their organisations. The platform provides visibility and controls across AI tools, employees, agents, vendors, devices, and the underlying infrastructure.

Velatir is addressing the security and compliance challenges that can emerge as businesses adopt more AI tools and autonomous agents. As AI becomes embedded across company systems and workflows, organisations need to track how these technologies are being used, where data is flowing, and whether their use complies with internal policies and regulatory requirements. The platform brings together AI security, policy enforcement, usage monitoring, and discovery in one system.

Key Features

The platform provides real-time visibility into AI activity across devices, browsers, employees, and agents, including data flows, costs, and the maturity of individual use cases. Companies can also establish centralised guardrails across systems and access a catalogue of more than 4,000 AI tools. Velatir has built its platform entirely on European-owned and hosted infrastructure, opting not to use US hyperscalers.

Data Sovereignty

The company positions this approach around data sovereignty, resilience, and control as European businesses increasingly consider where their AI infrastructure and data are hosted. According to Christian Møller, COO and co-founder of Velatir, the company chose to build its platform on European-owned and hosted infrastructure from the very beginning, citing it as the harder path, but the only viable one for them. This approach is in line with the growing trend of European businesses prioritising data sovereignty and control over their AI infrastructure.

The funding round also saw participation from Norrsken Evolve and angel investors Jan Oberhauser and Thomas Visti, as well as the Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) through a matching loan. With this new investment, Velatir is well-positioned to continue its growth and expansion across Europe, providing companies with a robust AI infrastructure platform to manage their AI tools and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.