spektr, a Copenhagen-based company building AI infrastructure for compliance across financial services, has secured $20m in Series A funding.
The round was led by NEA, with continued backing from existing investors Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech. The capital will be directed towards expanding spektr’s AI platform and driving uptake among financial institutions worldwide.
Despite significant investment in compliance technology over the years, the bulk of KYC and KYB work still falls to analysts manually sifting through corporate documents, mapping ownership structures, and producing risk rationales. Spektr’s platform addresses this directly through a suite of specialised AI agents capable of researching companies, interpreting data, verifying business activity, and generating structured risk assessments — compressing work that once took hours into a matter of minutes. Compliance teams retain oversight, reviewing and approving outputs rather than performing the underlying research themselves.
The platform gives financial institutions the ability to design their own onboarding and monitoring workflows and deploy AI agent networks within them, converting analyst-driven manual processes into automated operations at scale.
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.”
Copyright © 2026 RegTech Analyst
Copyright © 2018 RegTech Analyst
