spektr, a Copenhagen-based AI infrastructure company focused on financial services compliance, has closed a $20m Series A funding round led by NEA, with follow-on support from Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech.
The capital will be deployed to scale spektr’s AI agent platform and drive adoption among financial institutions worldwide. The round addresses a persistent challenge in the compliance sector: despite significant investment in compliance technology over the years, KYC and KYB processes remain heavily manual, with analysts routinely spending hours collating corporate documents, mapping ownership structures, verifying business activity, and writing risk rationales across multiple sources.
Spektr’s solution is a platform of purpose-built AI agents that replicate the analytical work typically carried out by compliance professionals. These agents research companies, interpret data, verify business operations, and produce structured risk assessments — compressing work that might take an analyst several hours into a matter of minutes. Compliance teams retain oversight, reviewing and approving outputs rather than building them from scratch.
The platform is designed to give financial institutions the flexibility to configure their own onboarding and monitoring workflows, embedding AI agent networks directly into those processes and converting analyst-driven operations into automated, scalable ones.
Spektr CEO and co-founder Mikkel Skarnager said, “Compliance technology has mostly focused on workflow and data collection. But the real bottleneck has always been the work itself – analysts researching companies, interpreting information, and documenting decisions. spektr automates those tasks with AI agents designed specifically for KYC and KYB compliance.”
NEA partner Luke Pappas said, “Financial institutions are under constant pressure to do more compliance work with fewer resources. spektr is tackling the most manual part of compliance operations in financial services. Their approach has the potential to redefine how compliance operations are run.”
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