Vigilant AI.ai, the Derby-headquartered tech platform that delivers AI teammates for regulated businesses, has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding led by B2B SaaS investor Haatch. The round combines funds from three Haatch-managed sources, including investment from Haatch, the East Midlands Combined County Authority and the British Business Bank.
AI promises double-digit efficiency gains, yet most regulated firms still face a “trust gap”: they struggle to prove that every AI action is policy-safe. Vigilant AI.ai embeds generative AI into existing workflows as AI teammates that run inside real-time guardrails and create an immutable audit trail. This lets teams work faster without breaching policy.
The new funding will be used to hire key engineering and go-to-market talent. It will also help productise the platform for a wider rollout, adding intuitive controls, enterprise-grade security certifications and self-service onboarding. The company plans to convert in-flight pilots into revenue in Q4 2025 and launch further deployments with forward-thinking regulated businesses.
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.
Mark Wood, Co-founder & CTO
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.
Mike Anyfantakis, Co-founder & CPO
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.
Fred Soneya, Partner at Haatch
