Pre-Seed · Raising €500K · Dublin, Ireland
AI governance infrastructure
for the agentic era
Traction
Aqta Core is live with a 6-layer defence gateway processing API calls across OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, and Google.
Three additional products — Testera, Aqi, and AqtaBio — are built on the same governance infrastructure, demonstrating platform versatility across education, consumer AI, and public health.
Why now
EU AI Act enforcement
The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024, with the first obligations on banned systems and AI literacy applying from February 2025. Any company deploying AI in Europe now needs compliance tooling. Aqta is built for this from day one — not bolted on.
Agentic AI explosion
The agentic AI market is projected to grow from €6.5bn in 2025 to €86bn by 2032, a 44.6% CAGR. As autonomous agents loop, overspend or leak data, trust becomes the bottleneck. Aqta closes that gap at the gateway and infrastructure layer.
Team
Anya Chueayen
Founder & CEO
Previously at TikTok and Meta's GenAI Llama Research. Founded Aqta to solve the AI governance gap she saw firsthand building production AI systems. Information Systems (University of Melbourne), Full-Stack Development (MIT). Specialisation in AI Safety, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cybersecurity.