Danish Velatir gets €5 million seed as companies seek greater control over AI use

Odense-based AI startup Velatir has raised €5 million in seed funding in a round co-led by Spintop Ventures and existing investor Ugly Duckling Ventures. The round also includes follow-on investment from Norrsken Evolve, angel investors Jan Oberhauser, founder of n8n, and Thomas Visti, former CEO of Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, as well as a match loan from the Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO). Velatir develops infrastructure designed to help companies monitor and manage the use of AI across employees, AI agents, devices and systems, combining usage visibility, data-flow monitoring and policy controls. The company plans to use the new capital to expand across Europe and grow its team, while continuing to develop its platform on European-owned and hosted infrastructure. Velatir is an AI infrastructure company focused on helping organizations manage the growing use of artificial intelligence across their businesses. Rather than developing AI models itself, the company provides an infrastructure layer designed to sit across the different systems, tools and users interacting with AI, including employees, AI agents, devices, vendors and underlying infrastructure. Its platform brings together AI usage monitoring, data-flow visibility, security and policy controls in a single system. Companies can use it to see which AI tools are being used across their organization, how data is moving through those tools, the associated costs and the level of maturity of different AI deployments. The platform also provides centralized controls for setting and enforcing policies around AI use. “Sovereign cloud is a common phrase, and it often means American platforms with a European label. We built Velatir on European-owned and hosted infrastructure from the very beginning. It is the harder path, but the only viable one for us. We’re building a category leader, and we don’t take shortcuts,” says Christian Møller, COO & Co-founder at Velatir. Velatir maintains an AI App Store with more than 4,000 AI tools, giving organizations visibility into the expanding range of AI applications available to their employees and teams. The company positions this discovery and monitoring layer as a way for businesses to better understand AI adoption while maintaining oversight of potential security, compliance and data risks. “We’re here to win. Winning means helping European companies stay competitive in the age of AI and protecting Europe’s future competitiveness. Europe has been longing for more European infrastructure champions, and we’re here to answer that calling. Our mission is to enable any company to become AI-native, and with this new round, we’re taking the next step in our journey to become the fastest-growing European AI company,” says Michael Sørensen, CEO & Co-founder at Velatir. The company is also building its platform on European-owned and hosted infrastructure. This reflects Velatir’s focus on data sovereignty and reducing reliance on US-based hyperscale cloud providers, particularly as European companies face growing questions around where AI-related data and infrastructure are hosted. “As AI reshapes enterprise software, secure digital foundations are becoming essential for companies to adopt it safely and at scale. Velatir combines a clear vision for that future with exceptional execution and traction, giving them the potential to define a new category in enterprise AI,” says Helen Agering, Partner at Spintop Ventures. Founded in Odense, Velatir was established by CEO Michael Sørensen, CTO Elias Sørensen, COO Christian Møller, and CPO Andreas Paulli. The founding team brings experience across technology infrastructure, defence, robotics, financial regulation, AI compliance and software product development, including previous roles at Meta, the Danish Defence, Usercentrics and robotics companies. “Every once in a while, a company hits the market at exactly the right moment. Velatir is one of those companies. AI adoption is exploding inside organisations, but visibility and control have not kept pace. The answer is not to slow AI down, it is to give companies the infrastructure that allows them to use more AI, faster and with confidence. Since leading the pre-seed round, I’ve had the privilege of working side by side with Michael and the team as Chair, and I have rarely seen a team execute with this combination of speed, discipline and ambition, turning an urgent problem into commercial traction in just a few months. We are doubling down because we believe Velatir has the team, timing and ambition to become a defining European AI company,” says Louise Lachmann, General Partner at Ugly Duckling Ventures. After raising pre-seed funding and launching its platform, Velatir has focused on expanding its customer base in Europe. The company raised a further €5 million in seed funding in August 2026 to support its European expansion and recruitment as it scales its platform. “We back companies that make Europe more sustainable and resilient, and control over how AI moves through an organisation is fast becoming critical infrastructure. Velatir sits exactly at that layer. Since we first invested at pre-seed, Michael and the team have converted a sharp thesis into real commercial traction faster than almost anyone in our portfolio, that’s why we doubled down,” says Johan Attby, General Partner at Norrsken Evolve. Click to read more funding news.