Velatir is founded by one of the most talent-dense founder teams in Europe.
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Michael Sørensen (CEO): Led technological and security audits across Meta’s infrastructure portfolio of data centers. He also spent 10 years in the Danish Defence, leading electronic warfare.
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Elias Sørensen (CTO): Built one of the most widely deployed self-driving robotics platforms, holds a worldwide patent in AI-based vehicle control. Elias architected and led the development of the world’s largest-scale web compliance scanner processing billions of pages every month.
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Christian Møller (COO): Led regulatory implementation of AI Act/DORA at one of Europe’s biggest financial groups (12 payment institutions with >10k employees). Background as a lawyer.
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Andreas Paulli (CPO): Led the frontend rebuild of the Cookiebot admin dashboard at Usercentrics, formerly Cybot (600k+ customers, 2.3M+ apps and sites, 8.8B monthly consents)
Velatir has seen explosive growth and is tripling down on its European expansion
Since raising pre-seed six months ago and officially launching, Velatir has seen its sales numbers explode, enabling this round to come together in a matter of two weeks. The funding will be used to triple down on its European expansion and compete for the best talent in the region. All needed in order to keep up with customer intake and fulfil its ambition of becoming the fastest-growing AI company in Europe.
The need to control AI is real. As software itself has become more intelligent with AI, it has also become increasingly harder to control. The risk of data leakage has increased, and this risk will only accelerate further with agentic products. Controls are needed to help companies maximize the full benefits of AI, without compromising on compliance or risk.
Velatir builds the future OS for AI. The current barriers to AI in companies aren’t the models and services, it’s everything around them. Velatir plugs in horizontally across everything AI touches: endpoints, vendors, agents, employees, down to the infrastructure they run on. Velatir is the infrastructure layer everything flows through, not another tool that a company adopts alongside its AI.
Velatir’s platform ties together security, policy enforcement, usage, and discovery across employees and AI agents, enabling companies to stay in full control at all times. In practice, this means:
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Real-time AI usage across devices, browsers and employees/agents
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Real-time data flow, the cost and the maturity behind each use
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Control guardrails across all systems in one central place
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Stay on top of the newest AI tools through their App Store of +4,000 AI tools
Built on 100% European infrastructure
A core principle for Velatir is that the entire platform is built on European-owned and hosted infrastructure – a deliberate opt-out of American hyperscalers. According to the company, resilience, transparency and trust are Europe’s real competitive advantage.
“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
CEO:
“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
Investors:
“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
“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
“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
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About Spintop Ventures
Spintop Ventures is a Nordic early-stage venture capital firm investing in innovative, software-based technology companies. With a strong track record in enterprise software and deep-tech, Spintop supports founders in building scalable global businesses with sustainable impact.