Vigilant AI.ai, the Derby-headquartered tech platform that delivers AI teammates designed for regulated businesses, has raised €665k in pre-Seed funding to grow the team and accelerate the move from pilots to revenue-generating deployments.
The round was led by B2B SaaS investor Haatch. The round combines funds from three Haatch-managed sources including funding from Haatch, the East Midlands Combined County Authority and British Business Bank.
Mark Wood, Co-founder & CTO of Vigilant AI.ai, shares: “As a trusted advisor to financial services boards, I kept seeing the same pattern: teams got excited about the potential of generative AI but then hit a wall when asked about governance and compliance. We founded Vigilant AI.ai because the toolset to answer those questions simply didn’t exist.
“Our platform enables people in the business to onboard AI Teammates where work happens whilst real-time guardrails and audit logs protect and govern. Customers gain AI productivity at speed, with regulatory compliant trust.”
This pre-Seed investment in Vigilant AI.ai comes amid a wave of UK startups building AI agent and governance platforms for regulated and enterprise environments.
In August 2025, Archestra secured €2.8 million to help companies deploy secure AI agents that manage internal data sources safely. The following month, Zango AI raised €4 million to address regulatory complexity in financial compliance through autonomous AI systems. Also in July, Magentic attracted €4.6 million for enterprise automation, while Synthesized closed a €17 million + Series A to scale its AI testing and data governance tools.
Together, these announcements illustrate an active 2025 funding environment for UK-based AI startups addressing trust, compliance and workflow integration in enterprise settings.
While Vigilant AI.ai’s pre-Seed amount is smaller, its focus on real-time governance for regulated teams positions it within the same trend toward provable-trust AI solutions. The company’s Derby base also reinforces the UK’s strength in producing compliance-focused B2B SaaS innovators outside the London core.
Mike Anyfantakis, Co-founder & CPO of Vigilant AI.ai, adds: “We’re already finalising our first pilots, and it is clear that clients want to go live fast. They are keen to create and collaborate with their AI teammates in their everyday work, at speed. By making compliance an always-on, real-time feature, we give financial services and other regulated firms confidence to deploy AI Agents in their team workflows. We’re excited by the feedback received from early customers and looking to further develop our product in collaboration with our partners.”
Founded in 2024, Vigilant AI.ai delivers AI Teammates that embed generative AI into enterprise workflows with real-time compliance guardrails. The company says their mission is to unlock the potential of AI whilst ensuring every action is provably compliant.
Vigilant AI.ai aims to create an immutable audit trail, letting teams work faster without breaching policy.
AI promises double-digit efficiency gains, yet most regulated firms still face a “trust gap”: they struggle to prove every AI action is policy-safe – this is where Vigilant AI.ai looks to make a name for themselves.
Fred Soneya, Partner at Haatch, adds: “We back Founders solving deep, universal pains in B2B SaaS. Vigilant AI.ai tackles the biggest blocker to enterprise GenAI adoption: provable trust. Their real-time compliance layer is exactly what our fintech and financial-services network has been asking for.”
The fresh capital will be used to:
- Hire key engineering and go-to-market talent.
- Productise the platform for broad rollout – adding intuitive controls, enterprise-grade security certifications and self-service onboarding.
- Convert in-flight pilots into revenue in Q4 2025 and launch additional deployment with forward-thinking regulated businesses.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/11/with-hopes-of-bridging-the-ai-trust-gap-britains-vigilant-ai-ai-raises-e665k-for-their-ai-teammates/
