As businesses race to deploy AI across everything from everyday software to autonomous agents, a new challenge is emerging alongside the productivity gains: companies increasingly need to know exactly which AI systems are operating inside their organisations, what data they can access and where that information is going. Danish startup Velatir is targeting this growing gap after raising €5 million to expand its AI infrastructure platform across Europe.
Fresh Capital for European Expansion
The funding round was co led by new investor Spintop Ventures and existing backer Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from Norrsken Evolve and angel investors Jan Oberhauser, co founder of n8n, and Thomas Visti, associated with Universal Robots and MiR.
The Danish Export and Investment Fund, known as EIFO, also participated through a matching loan.
The financing arrives only six months after Velatir raised its pre seed round and follows the company’s commercial launch. The latest investment will allow the startup to accelerate its European expansion and strengthen its team as demand for AI governance and infrastructure tools grows.
Building an AI Control Layer
Founded by Michael Sørensen, Elias Sørensen, Christian Møller and Andreas Paulli, Velatir is developing what it describes as an infrastructure layer for organisations managing increasingly complex AI environments.
Rather than focusing on a single AI application, the platform is designed to give companies visibility across the broader AI ecosystem operating within their businesses.
This includes AI tools, employees, autonomous agents, vendors, devices and the infrastructure supporting them.
The goal is to help organisations understand how AI is being used throughout their operations while providing controls that can be applied centrally.
Tracking AI Across the Enterprise
As companies adopt hundreds or even thousands of AI applications, managing those systems can become increasingly difficult. Employees may use different AI tools for different tasks, while autonomous agents can interact with business systems and data with limited direct oversight.
Velatir’s platform combines AI security, policy enforcement, usage monitoring and discovery in a single system.
The technology provides real time visibility into AI activity across devices, browsers, employees and agents. Companies can monitor data flows and costs while assessing the maturity of individual AI use cases.
The platform also enables organisations to establish centralised rules and guardrails governing how AI can be used across their environments.
Velatir has developed a catalogue containing more than 4,000 AI tools, giving companies a way to discover and track the growing range of AI applications entering the workplace.
Betting on European Sovereignty
A defining element of Velatir’s strategy is its decision to build the platform entirely on European owned and hosted infrastructure.
The company has deliberately avoided relying on US hyperscalers, positioning European infrastructure as an important part of its approach to data sovereignty, resilience and control.
For European businesses and regulated organisations, where data is hosted and which infrastructure providers control that environment have become increasingly important considerations as AI adoption accelerates.
Velatir COO and co founder Christian Møller argues that the term sovereign cloud can sometimes be misleading when European services continue to depend on American infrastructure providers.
Velatir therefore chose to build its infrastructure around European ownership from the beginning, despite the additional complexity involved.
Scaling Across Europe
The latest funding gives Velatir resources to move faster as European companies confront the security, compliance and governance implications of widespread AI adoption.
The startup plans to use the capital primarily for European expansion and recruitment, building the technical and commercial capabilities required to serve a growing customer base.
With AI agents becoming increasingly embedded in corporate workflows, Velatir is betting that visibility, governance and sovereign infrastructure will become as important to enterprises as the AI applications themselves.