UAE Hub71 AI startup Skipr receives $2 million investment

Skipr, a sovereign Platform-as-a-Service for the age of intelligence, closed $2 million seed funding round at a $10 million valuation. The funding supports the startup’s expansion from Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, as it scales sovereign AI infrastructure for national and enterprise deployments.

Skipr out of Hub 71 is working to overcome challenges as intelligent systems increasingly operate autonomously across organizations, clouds and border. Skipr aims to offer a secure way for AI systems to communicate, coordinate, and exchange value, while ensuring that government and enterprises retain full sovereign control of their data and decision making.

Skipr is already working with telecommunications operators, AI and cybersecurity laboratories, and data center partners to deploy autonomous, sovereign AI digital services at national and enterprise scale. These early deployments position the company as a key enabler for governments and enterprises transitioning toward AI-ready, cross-jurisdiction digital environments.

Skipr enables organizations to connect systems, deploy applications, and enable trusted interactions between AI tools across different networks. Through cryptographic identity, policy-driven routing, and auditable interoperability, the company’s technology ensures that data, decisions, and transactions can be shared safely, transparently, and in line with regulatory and national requirements.

“This funding accelerates our work on what we believe is a foundational layer for the AI era,” said Andreas Hartl, CEO at Skipr Technologies. “As AI systems become autonomous and interconnected, secure AI-to-AI interoperability under sovereign control is no longer optional. We are building the trust infrastructure nations and enterprises need to deploy AI safely, confidently, and at scale.”