--- title: Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control... description: Odense-based Velatir has raised €5m in seed funding, just six months after a €1.35m pre-seed, co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures with angel... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/velatir-raises-5m-to-sell-european-companies-control-over-their-own-ai-bynlndoyj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI | daily.dev og:description: Odense-based Velatir has raised €5m in seed funding, just six months after a €1.35m pre-seed, co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures with angel... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/velatir-raises-5m-to-sell-european-companies-control-over-their-own-ai-bynlndoyj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bYNLnDOyj.png og:image:alt: Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Odense-based Velatir has raised €5m in seed funding, just six months after a €1.35m pre-seed, co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures with angel backing from n8n founder Jan Oberhauser. The startup gives companies visibility and control over AI tools employees already use across endpoints, browsers, vendors, and agents, tracking usage, data flow, and cost while centralizing policy guardrails. It maintains a directory of over 4,000 AI tools and runs entirely on European-owned and hosted infrastructure, positioning itself against 'sovereign cloud' offerings that are really American platforms with a European label. Funds will go toward European expansion and hiring in the increasingly crowded sovereign enterprise AI market. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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