Skipr raises $2 million in seed funding to build a sovereign AI trust infrastructure, enabling secure AI-to-AI interoperability for governments and enterprises.
Abu Dhabi-based Skipr has raised $2 million in seed funding at a $10 million valuation to develop what it describes as a sovereign-grade trust layer for autonomous AI systems.
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The funding will support the company’s expansion from Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global technology ecosystem, as it scales infrastructure designed to enable secure AI-to-AI communication across enterprise and national deployments.
As AI systems increasingly operate autonomously across organizations, cloud environments and national borders, ensuring secure interoperability has become a critical challenge.
Skipr aims to address this by building what it calls an “autonomous trust fabric,” an infrastructure that enables AI systems to communicate, coordinate, and exchange value while allowing governments and enterprises to retain sovereign control over data and decision-making processes.
The company’s platform integrates cryptographic identity, policy-based routing and auditable interoperability mechanisms to ensure that data, transactions and automated decisions comply with regulatory and national frameworks.
Skipr is already collaborating with telecommunications operators, AI and cybersecurity laboratories, and data centre partners to deploy sovereign AI services at enterprise and national scale.
These early partnerships position the startup as an enabler for governments and large organizations transitioning toward AI-ready digital environments that operate across jurisdictions while maintaining regulatory compliance.
CEO Andreas Hartl said the seed funding accelerates development of what the company views as a foundational infrastructure layer for the AI era.
“As AI systems become increasingly autonomous and interconnected, secure AI-to-AI interoperability under sovereign control is no longer optional,” Hartl said. “We are building the trust infrastructure that nations and enterprises need to deploy AI safely and at scale.”
Operating within Abu Dhabi’s digital assets and emerging technology ecosystem, Skipr is positioning itself at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity and sovereign digital infrastructure, sectors that are rapidly gaining strategic importance across the Gulf region.
Why Skipr Funding Matters to MENA
This funding round may be early-stage, but strategically, it sits at the center of several major regional priorities:
Gulf governments, particularly the UAE and Saudi Arabia, are investing heavily in AI infrastructure that ensures national control over data, compute and digital decision-making. Skipr’s focus on sovereign-grade AI interoperability aligns directly with these policy ambitions.
As AI systems increasingly interact across ministries, enterprises and cloud environments, secure AI-to-AI coordination becomes essential. Without a trust layer, interoperability creates regulatory and cybersecurity risks.
Operating from Hub71, Skipr reflects a shift from application-level AI startups toward deeper infrastructure plays, identity, routing, compliance and interoperability, which are critical for national-scale deployments.
The AI race is no longer only about models. It is about compute access, regulatory alignment, interoperability standards and sovereign control. Startups building enabling layers like Skipr could become foundational components of future digital economies.
In short, Skipr represents the kind of infrastructure-focused AI company that aligns closely with MENA’s ambition to build secure, sovereign, and globally competitive AI ecosystems.
