Investor / Grant / Strategic Partner Lane

The SME on-ramp to sovereign AI infrastructure.

Westover Labs is a Berlin company turning a consulting wedge into a repeatable control plane for European businesses: migrate fragile stacks off US-controlled dependencies where needed, run local or on-device inference where it matters, and leave behind auditable infrastructure-as-code.

Talk about funding or pilots
Why Now

European companies need AI, but the default path creates new dependencies.

The market pressure is coming from both sides: teams are shipping AI-assisted code faster than they can harden it, while sovereignty, DORA, Schrems II, cloud-switching, and cost control make the infrastructure question board-level. The common answer is still a US hyperscaler region or a platform bill that grows faster than the business.

Infrastructure sovereignty

Move compute and data planes onto EU-owned, EU-jurisdiction infrastructure where the threat model requires it.

AI operations

Run agents, reviews, telemetry, model routing, and deployment workflows as a production system, not a prompt experiment.

SME usability

Make the migration path understandable for non-enterprise companies: assess, migrate, prove, operate, hand off.

Proof

Westover Labs has already built the hard parts by dogfooding them.

Founder-market fit

James Westover is a physicist and former Uber Staff Engineer with deep work across location infrastructure, Python platform migrations, autonomous-driving capture systems, and production AI infrastructure.

Shipped products

Two iOS apps, on-device ML surfaces, static web properties, self-hosted services, and an agent platform operating as a virtual engineering organization.

Consulting traction wedge

The paid offer ladder already exists: focused reviews, audit/remediation, sovereign migrations, fractional principal work, and managed hosting.

Non-dilutive bridge

The funding strategy is non-dilutive first: Berlin/EU grant routes, research-transfer partners, and pilot customers before a heavy equity story.

The Ask

Help turn the hand-built practice into a repeatable European infrastructure product.

Useful conversations

  • Aligned angels or funds with an EU sovereignty, applied AI, or infrastructure thesis.
  • Berlin/EU grant partners, research-transfer partners, and pilot customers.
  • SMEs or regulated teams with a concrete migration, AI operations, or cost-control problem.

Still to verify before formal materials

  • Exact legal registration details and incorporation date.
  • Preferred funding route: non-dilutive only, grant plus loan, or equity appetite.
  • Named pilot/reference customers and public-safe telemetry claims.

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