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Saidot
We invested in Saidot because it solves the trust problem holding back enterprise AI by giving every AI agent an owner, a mandate and a record, so companies can move agents from pilot to production to unlock more value.
Enterprises are racing to put AI agents to work, but around half of those projects are still stuck in pilot. The barrier is rarely the technology. It is trust. Agents get access faster than anyone takes responsibility for them. When something goes wrong, few organisations can say whose agent it was, what it was allowed to do, or what it actually did. Helsinki-based Saidot was founded in 2018 to close that gap. It builds the governance platform that lets companies trust, control and scale their AI. Its customers include large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies across financial services, pharma, media, technology and the public sector.
Team
Saidot is led by founder and CEO Meeri Haataja, one of Europe’s most experienced voices in AI governance. Before founding Saidot, she led AI strategy and GDPR implementation at OP Financial Group, Finland’s largest financial services company. Before that, she spent years running data and AI programmes at Accenture. She has chaired IEEE’s AI Impact Use Cases Initiative, led the ethics working group of Finland’s national AI programme, and serves as an AI expert on Snap Inc.’s Safety Advisory Board. Together with CTO Mikko Kämäräinen, she has built a team that combines deep AI governance expertise with enterprise-grade engineering. That team now has a dedicated commercial presence in North America.
“Every company wants its AI agents to do more. Few can say who answers for them. Saidot gives every agent an owner, a mandate, and a record. Compliance is the floor, control sets the ceiling. That is what lets enterprises trust their agents and unlock more value,” says Meeri Haataja, CEO of Saidot.
Backers' perspective
Saidot fits within the Sovereignty pillar of our investment strategy: giving Europe control over the technology its organisations, and increasingly its society, depend on. As AI agents take on real work, someone has to make sure they act within clear rules, and that it’s possible to see what they did and who answers for it. Saidot builds those guardrails, and in doing so removes what is holding most companies back. Trust is what lets AI move from pilot to production, so the platform that keeps AI accountable is also what unlocks its value for European companies, and increasingly for US ones.
Demand for this grows with AI adoption. Every agent that goes live is another system that needs an owner, rules and an audit trail. EU regulation opens doors, but the real driver is simpler: enterprises can’t scale what they can’t answer for. What sets Saidot apart is its connected record. It maps the models, tools and data behind each agent, so a component governed once is governed everywhere it is used. Through Saidot’s MCP servers, teams’ own AI assistants can register agents and run risk assessments directly in the record. Agents do the groundwork, and people make the decisions. The new capital will strengthen its position in Europe and fund its US expansion. It will also fund the next step in the product: policy-as-code, where controls set in Saidot become rules that runtime guardrails enforce.
“Rogue agents have shaken confidence in AI. The next wave of value depends on trust, not just on better models. Every agent that goes live is another system to govern, so Saidot grows with its customers’ AI. That is why we are backing Meeri and her team,” says Niclas Wijkström, Investment Director at BackingMinds.
Saidot's ambition is clear: to become the system enterprises rely on to trust and scale their AI agents, in Europe and beyond.