Danish AI infrastructure startup Velatir has raised €5 million in Seed funding to expand its platform for monitoring and controlling how artificial intelligence tools are used across enterprise operations.

The round was co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from Norrsken Evolve and a group of angel investors. The fresh capital comes after a period of rapid commercial growth, with Velatir adding 80 customers across six European countries in seven months.

The company plans to use the funding to accelerate its European expansion, grow its team and establish a presence in additional markets as businesses face increasing complexity around AI adoption, data security and regulatory compliance.

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Building a Control Layer for Enterprise AI

Velatir is developing infrastructure that sits alongside the AI applications already used within companies, giving organizations centralized visibility into how those tools interact with employees and corporate data.

The platform monitors data flows, user activity and potential risks in real time, allowing businesses to establish controls around AI usage while maintaining oversight across different applications.

CEO Michael Blicher Sørensen said AI was initially expected to simplify business operations, but the rapid adoption of different tools has instead created a fragmented environment that can be difficult for companies to manage.

Velatir aims to address that problem by providing a common control layer rather than requiring companies to replace the AI applications they already use. The approach is designed to help organizations adopt AI while maintaining security, compliance and operational oversight.

Rapid Growth Across European Markets

Velatir has expanded from zero customers in January to 80 by August, with clients spanning finance, legal services and government across six European countries.

The startup is also approaching $1 million in annual recurring revenue and has grown its workforce to 30 employees. It plans to nearly double its headcount by the end of the year as it expands its commercial and product operations.

Its platform primarily targets mid-market businesses but can support organizations ranging from five employees to workforces of up to 20,000 people.

The company plans to open an office in Stockholm in October, followed by additional locations across Europe over the next year. France, the Netherlands and the wider Nordic region are among the markets targeted for expansion.

European Infrastructure at the Core of Velatir’s Strategy

Velatir has built its platform exclusively on European-owned and hosted infrastructure, making data sovereignty a central part of its positioning.

Co-founder Christian Møller said the decision was deliberate, allowing the company to avoid dependence on US hyperscalers while addressing concerns among European businesses around data residency and cross-border transfers.

The approach is also intended to help customers navigate regulatory requirements, including those emerging under Europe’s AI regulatory framework. For companies with strict procurement and data-governance requirements, Velatir says its infrastructure model can remove some of the obstacles involved in adopting enterprise AI technology.

The €5 million Seed round will now give Velatir additional resources to extend that model across Europe. With its customer base growing and new offices planned, the company is focusing its next phase on becoming a broader infrastructure layer for businesses seeking to manage AI adoption without losing control over their data and operations.

Lithuanian AI training startup Guideless has raised €1 million in Pre-Seed funding to develop its platform for automatically creating and maintaining software training materials and operational documentation.

The round was led by Superhero Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK VC and executives from Vinted, including CEO Thomas Plantenga. Guideless will use the capital to accelerate product development, expand its team and support international growth across the UK, Europe and the US.

The startup is targeting a persistent problem for companies: documenting how employees use increasingly complex software systems while keeping training materials current as tools and internal processes change.

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Turning Software Workflows Into Training Guides

Guideless uses AI to capture business workflows while employees perform them and automatically convert those processes into structured training materials.

Rather than manually recording videos or writing step-by-step instructions, users complete a task within their regular business software while Guideless captures the process. Its AI then generates a guide combining visual sequences, written instructions and narration.

The company says its technology can make the creation and maintenance of training documentation up to ten times faster than conventional approaches.

Individual steps remain editable, allowing businesses to modify existing guides as workflows change rather than recreating the entire training resource. Content can also be translated or adapted for different teams, while text-to-speech narration is available in more than 40 languages.

Building an Operational Memory Layer

Guideless sees a broader application for the information collected through its platform beyond employee training.

CEO and co-founder Evaldas Bieliūnas said the company is turning captured workflows into structured operational context, creating what it describes as an evolving memory layer for organizations.

That approach could help companies preserve institutional knowledge as employees, software and internal processes change. Instead of leaving operational knowledge distributed across individual employees and outdated documentation, Guideless aims to create a continuously maintained record of how work is actually performed.

The company eventually plans to use that structured workflow information as an operational intelligence layer for AI agents. Providing AI systems with company-specific process data could allow them to automate tasks based on existing business practices rather than generic instructions.

Early Adoption Across 15 Markets

Guideless says its platform has attracted more than 3,000 users and paying customers across 15 markets. Organizations using its technology include Vinted, Masan Consumer Holdings and the Nevada Hospital Association.

Thomas Plantenga, CEO of Vinted and an investor in the round, pointed to his company’s experience using Guideless to maintain its knowledge base with less manual work as a factor behind his decision to back the startup.

Superhero Capital’s Audrius Milukas said the opportunity extends beyond reducing the work involved in producing training videos. He sees Guideless’s ability to capture operational knowledge as a foundation for addressing broader workplace automation challenges.

Targeting International Expansion

With the Pre-Seed capital secured, Guideless plans to expand its workforce and continue developing its AI capabilities while increasing its presence outside its existing markets.

The UK, wider European market and the US are among its primary expansion targets.

As businesses adopt more software and AI tools, Guideless is betting that the underlying record of how employees actually complete tasks will become increasingly valuable. Its longer-term strategy is to turn that operational knowledge into infrastructure that can support both human training and AI-driven workplace automation.

UK water technology startup Metal Morph has raised £700,000 in pre-seed funding to develop technology that recovers valuable industrial chemicals from municipal and industrial wastewater, turning treatment facilities into circular supply chains.

The company has also secured a £100,000 grant from UK water regulator Ofwat. The combined funding will support further development of its resource recovery technology and expand trials with water utilities and industrial partners.

Metal Morph operates through an infrastructure-as-a-service model, targeting materials that would otherwise be discharged or sent to landfill. Its initial focus is recovering aluminium and iron-based coagulants used in water treatment and returning them to the treatment process.

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Building Circular Supply Chains for Water Treatment

Metal Morph’s technology captures spent treatment chemicals from wastewater and purifies them so they can be reused rather than replaced with newly sourced materials.

The approach is designed to reduce dependence on primary chemical supply chains while lowering waste, procurement costs and the environmental footprint associated with producing and transporting treatment chemicals.

Founder Moletsane Mophethe developed the company around the idea that existing water infrastructure could become a source of essential industrial materials rather than simply a system for managing waste.

Mophethe, whose interest in water systems was shaped by experiencing water scarcity during childhood, believes recovering resources already circulating through treatment infrastructure could help reduce the cost of producing clean water while making supply chains more resilient.

The proposition comes as water utilities face pressure from volatile supply chains, tighter environmental requirements and rising operating expenses.

Trials Show Potential for Chemical Recovery

Metal Morph has conducted more than 50 live tests across three drinking water treatment plants to evaluate its technology under operating conditions.

According to the company, those trials demonstrated recovery rates of up to 90% for spent chemicals at 95% purity. Metal Morph also reported a 26% reduction in coagulation-related operating costs and an 89% reduction in emissions associated with coagulant procurement.

The startup is now working with six major UK water utilities that collectively represent 56% of the country’s water market, giving it access to a significant portion of the industry as it continues validating its technology.

Metal Morph’s longer-term ambitions extend beyond recovering water treatment chemicals. The company plans to adapt its technology to extract standalone metals from industrial wastewater and mining tailings, potentially broadening its addressable applications across other resource-intensive industries.

Funding European Expansion and New Pilots

The £700,000 pre-seed round will help Metal Morph accelerate product development and increase the number of industry pilots as it works toward wider commercial deployment.

Its additional £100,000 Ofwat grant provides further capital for technical validation and collaboration with water sector partners.

The startup is also beginning to look outside the UK. Metal Morph is exploring potential technology demonstrations in Estonia and has entered discussions with Belgian water utility Aquafin as it evaluates opportunities in European markets.

These projects could provide an early test of whether its infrastructure-as-a-service model can be replicated across different water systems and regulatory environments.

By recovering chemicals already present in wastewater and putting them back into productive use, Metal Morph is betting that circular resource recovery can reduce both the cost and environmental impact of water treatment while creating more resilient industrial supply chains