Evrmind: hardware-enabled verification for AI, £3.5m pre-seed, seeking lead investor

Evrmind is raising a £3.5m pre-seed round and is looking for an investor to lead. We are also open to future Innovate UK Investor Partnerships rounds alongside the right partner.

We build a hardware-enabled verification and safety chip for AI and autonomous systems: separate silicon between the AI and the machine it controls. It checks every proposed action against the operator’s rules at runtime, withholds anything outside them, and keeps a tamper-evident, hardware-signed record of every decision.

Our prototype now runs the full five-block pipeline end to end on FPGA (TRL 4), tested with a live AI agent controlling a physical output. The design is covered by 26 patent families filed at the UK IPO. Our CTO (20 years at Arm, Intel, Broadcom, Dialog and Imagination) and lead cryptographer are signed and join at first close. We are in design-partner discussions in defence and critical infrastructure.

The round funds the path from prototype to a field-ready product with design partners, and our first paid evaluations in defence and critical infrastructure. SEIS and KI-EIS advance assurance approved. Deck and one-pager on our organisation page.