Leapter raises €2M to bridge the AI trust gap with visual software blueprints

German AI development platform Leapter has secured €2 million in pre-seed funding led by beteiligungsmanagement thüringen, with participation from SI Ventures and angel investors, including, Frank Stummer and Roman Dudenhausen, to transform how enterprises build software through visual-first AI development.

Founded in 2025 in Weimar, Leapter addresses a critical challenge in AI-driven software development: the trust gap between AI-generated code and enterprise requirements. While AI promises speed in development, enterprise organizations need transparency and human oversight, something traditional "black box" code generation cannot provide.

Leapter's approach replaces opaque source code with executable blueprints, structured, visual diagrams that serve as the single source of truth for software projects. These blueprints can be understood, validated, and refined by business stakeholders, product leaders, compliance officers, and legal experts, not just developers. This creates a shared language that bridges the gap between business intent and technical implementation.

The platform enables true cross-functional collaboration by allowing business experts to describe requirements in plain language, then visually review and refine system logic alongside technical colleagues. This "glass box" approach provides the auditability and governance that enterprise CIOs and CISOs need to confidently deploy AI-driven development at scale.

Both founders bring extensive enterprise software experience from companies like Pivotal, VMware, and Broadcom, having witnessed firsthand how the gap between business intent and technical execution creates risk and slows innovation. The new funding will is aimed at supporting the growth of their engineering team and expanding enterprise integrations as they continue their private beta with early design partners.

Founders: Oliver Welte, Robert Werner

Sources: Tech.eu, TheSaaSNews, Leapter, Crunchbase