# Cyber Company Profiles: nexos.ai

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## At a Glance

- Website: [nexos.ai](https://nexos.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/nexos-ai
- Type: Security for AI, Data Security, Governance Risk Compliance, Infrastructure
- Market readiness: Emerging (24/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (12/21)
- Founded: 2024
- Last updated: 2026-07-14

## Executive Summary

nexos.ai pitches AI governance to enterprise leadership, but most of the customer proof it publishes comes from business teams, several at companies tied to its own founders. The platform gives employees a workspace for more than 100 AI models and gives developers a gateway that enforces guardrails, access controls, and cost limits on AI traffic. Forbes reports the sales pitch as policy, interaction logs, and predictable spending for boards worried about ungoverned AI use, sold straight to the top of the organization. TechCrunch counts Tesonet portfolio companies, the founders' venture group, among the disclosed customers, and Nord Security and NordVPN supply site testimonials. The closest security reference is Payhawk, a fintech reporting that security investigations run 80% faster.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Enterprise AI platform pairing a governed employee workspace for more than 100 AI models with a developer gateway that enforces guardrails, access controls, observability, and cost limits on LLM traffic. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2024 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Vilnius, Lithuania | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | €30M Series A (announced September 2025) | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| nexos.ai Workspace | Governed chat workspace that gives employees access to more than 100 AI models with admin access controls, usage tracking, custom agents, and visibility into organization-wide AI use and cost. |
| nexos.ai AI Gateway | Developer gateway exposing one secure endpoint that routes traffic across more than 100 AI models with built-in guardrails, observability, fallback logic, caching, and cost controls. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Gateways & Routers |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

nexos.ai AI Gateway fronts an organization's LLM traffic through one secure endpoint, enforces security and usage policies with access controls and budget limits, and logs every interaction for visibility. These capabilities are mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Emerging (24/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-09. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | The shadow-AI data-leakage problem has a named enterprise buyer and independent press framing in TechCrunch and Forbes, but the pain quantification is the vendor's own. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 | Product pages describe the workspace and gateway concretely, and a public documentation portal covers both surfaces with OpenAI SDK compatibility, but no open-source code, benchmark, or third-party technical evaluation validates the depth externally. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | The enabler is dated and sourced, the enterprise AI adoption wave and the shadow-AI leakage concern that the January 2025 launch coverage and the October 2025 funding coverage frame, but buyer-side demand stays indirect, carried by funding events and the vendor's own demand accounts rather than independent demand signals. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | Founders Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas previously built Nord Security, a cybersecurity company that reached a $3 billion valuation, a verifiable prior in-domain build multiply evidenced across TechCrunch and EU-Startups. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | Payhawk is a named customer corroborated in TechCrunch with an on-site case study, and Pigu.lt appears as a testimonial, but TechCrunch notes Tesonet portfolio companies from the founders' own venture group are among the disclosed customers, and revenue is undisclosed, so the evidence stays at the named-references level. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | An $8 million seed and a €30 million Series A fund visible shipping, two product surfaces, a documentation portal, and completed SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, but revenue is undisclosed and the reported €300 million valuation rests on no published commercial figure, so efficiency is unconfirmed. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | The company spans the forming AI-gateway category and the secure AI-workspace category under an all-in-one label that still needs vendor explanation, with no analyst placement in the record. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 2/5 | A governed workspace and admin controls are plausible enterprise-tier features for the model providers themselves, and security platform vendors are already absorbing gateways, so neutrality across models remains positioning rather than a structural moat. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Model providers could bundle governed workspaces, admin controls, and usage logging into their enterprise tiers, removing the need for a separate neutral workspace layer.
- Security platform vendors could bundle AI gateways into existing contracts, as Palo Alto Networks' acquisition of Portkey signals, reaching nexos.ai's buyer through established procurement.
- The open-source LiteLLM gateway could commoditize the developer gateway surface, concentrating nexos.ai's paid value in the workspace where switching costs are lowest.
- Named customer references outside the founders' Tesonet network could stay scarce while rivals publish independent enterprise logos, leaving the traction story dependent on related parties.
- US hyperscalers opening EU sovereign-cloud AI regions could erode the data-sovereignty argument that opens European public-institution doors.

### Problem & Market

nexos.ai sells against the gap between enterprise AI enthusiasm and enterprise AI control. Employees adopt consumer AI tools faster than their companies can govern them, and the company frames the result as sensitive data flowing into third-party models outside any audit trail. Independent coverage repeats the framing: TechCrunch describes the platform as a middleman that keeps data under control without giving up productivity gains, and Forbes opens its profile with AI use rising while oversight lags.

The claimed buyer sits high in the organization. Forbes reports a pitch built for boards that switched quickly from AI curiosity to demanding measurable return, delivered as policy, interaction logs exported into security and identity systems, and predictable model spending. Demand quantification, though, stays vendor-asserted, and no analyst category or independent survey in the reviewed sources sizes this specific problem. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

The platform has two surfaces sold as one subscription. The Workspace gives employees a single interface to more than 100 AI models with access controls and usage tracking for administrators, side-by-side model comparison, and a builder for custom agents. The AI Gateway gives developers one endpoint that routes traffic across the same models with built-in guardrails, observability, fallback logic, and smart routing, plus caching and retrieval-augmented generation to ground responses in company documents.

Documentation is public but validation is not. A GitBook portal documents the Workspace and a Gateway API compatible with OpenAI SDKs, which lowers integration effort and also lowers the cost of leaving. No open-source code, published benchmark, or third-party technical evaluation of the guardrails or routing appears in the reviewed sources, so capability depth rests on the vendor's own pages and press descriptions. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

nexos.ai competes on two fronts at once. Among developer AI gateways it faces Portkey, which Palo Alto Networks acquired, the open-source LiteLLM gateway from BerriAI, and cloud providers' own model gateways. Among governed employee AI workspaces it faces WitnessAI and Liminal, which sell policy, redaction, and observability over multi-model access to the same regulated buyers.

Its differentiation claim is breadth plus neutrality. The company positions one platform covering both the employee surface and the developer surface, and its founders argue a neutral intermediary can govern spending and data across every model vendor in a way no single model provider can. Neutrality is a real structural argument against any single model provider absorbing the category, but it does not distinguish nexos.ai from the other independent platforms making the same claim. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

The sales motion is top-down enterprise selling layered over self-serve plans. Forbes quotes Chief Commercial Officer Justas Morkunas saying the company sells straight to the top of the organization, while the pricing page offers monthly and annual self-serve plans for individuals and small teams alongside a custom Enterprise plan, a blend that serves land-and-expand adoption but blurs the buyer.

Disclosed traction clusters close to home. TechCrunch reports that Tesonet portfolio companies, the founders' own venture group, are among the disclosed customers, and the site's testimonials come from Nord Security and NordVPN, both founder-affiliated, plus Pigu.lt. Payhawk, a Bulgarian fintech, is the clearest outside reference, with a vendor-published case study claiming an 80% cut in security investigation time. Revenue is undisclosed, so the funding trajectory, an $8 million seed at the January 2025 launch and a €30 million Series A nine months later, carries the growth signal. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

The founding team is the company's strongest public asset. Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas built Nord Security, the NordVPN parent that reached a $3 billion valuation, and largely bootstrapped it, a track record that drew Index Ventures into its first Lithuanian investment and angel backing from the CEOs of Datadog, Klarna, Supercell, and Wix.

The bench beyond the founders is filling in publicly. Forbes profiles Chief Commercial Officer Justas Morkunas fronting the commercial narrative, and the company is headquartered in Vilnius. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

The trust surface is unusually complete for a company roughly eighteen months past its public launch. A SafeBase trust center lists SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 with a statement of applicability, and GDPR alignment, with the audit reports themselves available through the portal. A security-practices page adds a responsible disclosure policy, though the company states it does not operate a monetary bug bounty program.

Corporate structure is documented on the legal pages: the data controller is spectra tech, UAB, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. For buyers in regulated industries, the certifications clear procurement's floor, and EU headquarters plus private model hosting options support the data-sovereignty positioning the company leans on in Europe. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| WitnessAI | competes with | Governs employee AI usage for regulated enterprises with network-level interception and policy, overlapping the Workspace's governance pitch. |
| Liminal | competes with | Secure multi-model AI workspace with policy-driven redaction for regulated enterprises, the closest shape to the nexos.ai Workspace. |
| Portkey | competes with | AI gateway acquired by Palo Alto Networks, competing with the nexos.ai AI Gateway from inside a security platform. |
| BerriAI | competes with | Maintains the open-source LiteLLM gateway, a free alternative for the developer gateway surface. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Exposed (12/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-14. Scope: whole company.

What nexos.ai owns today is speed, capital, and its founders' reputation. The product itself is reproducible: Portkey, now inside Palo Alto Networks, and the open-source LiteLLM gateway already sell multi-model routing and guardrails, while WitnessAI overlaps on governance controls and Liminal on governed workspaces. The neutral position between enterprises and model vendors is the structural argument its founders make, and a security platform vendor can hold the same position. nexos.ai has completed SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 audits, and a funded rival can earn the same. No proprietary dataset or cross-customer telemetry asset appears in the public record, so the founders' execution pace is a head start rather than a durable lead.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Customers buy software they configure and run, a workspace and a gateway with self-serve plans and a money-back guarantee, not judgment or accountability delivered as a service. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Re-pointing model traffic, rebuilding access policies and custom agents, and rewiring the interaction logs exported into security systems is real friction, but the lock-in is learned configuration rather than data gravity, and the OpenAI-compatible API eases substitution. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 are table-stakes attestations any funded rival can earn, and the reviewed record shows no regulatory requirement favoring the product category. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Routing traffic inline across more than 100 models with guardrails, fallbacks, caching, and observability at production latency is real-time distributed-systems engineering, though each piece is reproducible by a funded team. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 | The enterprise pitch targets leadership in regulated industries, but self-serve individual plans and testimonials from marketing and talent teams blend the buyer. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | The platform is a control layer between employees, applications, and models whose removal costs coverage and configuration while the customer's core systems keep running. Evidenced production dependence on the gateway would raise the switching cost. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | No named non-public dataset appears in the record, and the models the platform fronts belong to other vendors. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

The declared market is the organization that already uses AI but cannot govern it. TechCrunch describes the targets as tech-savvy companies using AI daily and regulated industries worried about governance and about sending sensitive data to models hosted abroad. The geographic motion starts from Vilnius, with the Series A supporting expansion across Europe and North America, and TechCrunch reports that data-sovereignty concerns have started to open doors for the company at European public institutions.

The served segments are broader than the pitch. The pricing page sells monthly and annual self-serve plans to individuals and small teams next to the custom Enterprise plan, and the published customer voices are mostly business-function leads, with Payhawk's co-founder and CTO the closest to a security reviewer. The segmentation therefore spans consumer-style AI subscribers and top-down enterprise buyers at once, which widens reach but leaves the security buyer, the one the funding story centers on, the least evidenced of the three. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

The platform pairs two capability surfaces over one model catalog. The Workspace gives employees more than 100 AI models in one interface with access controls and usage tracking for administrators, model comparison, and custom agents. The AI Gateway gives developers a single endpoint with guardrails, observability, fallback logic, and smart routing, plus caching to cut cost and latency and retrieval-augmented generation to ground responses in company documents.

The AI advantage is orchestration rather than models. The cited pages present nexos.ai as orchestrating other vendors' models rather than building its own, no proprietary dataset appears in the record, and its value is neutral routing, policy, and visibility across other vendors' models. The gateway's position, logging every model interaction it carries, could accumulate cross-customer routing, cost, and policy benchmarks, subject to contract and privacy terms the record does not describe, but that remains a latent asset the public record does not yet evidence. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

The go-to-market runs top-down. Forbes quotes Chief Commercial Officer Justas Morkunas saying the company sells straight to the top of the organization, with board materials and analyst stages as the selling venue, and the vendor pitches evidence in the form of logs, policies, and cost discipline. Beneath that motion, self-serve plans let individuals and teams adopt without a sales conversation.

Distribution leans on the founders' own network. Tesonet portfolio companies are among the disclosed customers, Nord Security and NordVPN supply site testimonials, and Payhawk is the clearest disclosed customer outside that circle. A founder network of this scale is a real launch channel, but it also means public traction proof and independent buyer proof are not yet the same thing. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Pricing is a subscription with a negotiated enterprise tier. The public plans run monthly or annual for individuals and small teams, carry a 14-day money-back guarantee, and include the model catalog, agent builder, and template library. The Enterprise plan is custom-priced and adds enhanced security features, team management, and detailed analytics, the standard signal of negotiated large deals.

The charging unit on the public tiers is the subscription with a monthly credit allowance, while Enterprise pricing is custom and the public page does not disclose whether usage or gateway traffic affects the price. The lower tiers publish their prices, and the credit mechanics tie the paid plans loosely to the model usage the platform meters. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Delivery is software-as-a-service with resilience features aimed at production use. The gateway advertises smart fallbacks and load balancing to keep workflows running through model outages, intelligent caching to reduce cost and latency, and private model hosting options for teams working with sensitive data, an option that supports the European data-residency pitch.

Operational evidence is documentation-deep but not independently tested. A public GitBook portal documents the Workspace and a Gateway API compatible with OpenAI SDKs, lowering integration effort. The reviewed top-level pages and documentation index surface no public service-level commitments, uptime data, or third-party performance evaluations. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

The compliance record outpaces the company's age. A SafeBase trust center lists SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 with its statement of applicability, and GDPR alignment, and the audit reports themselves are available through the portal. The legal pages identify the data controller as spectra tech, UAB in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Security process is stated but thinner than the certifications. A security-practices page publishes a responsible disclosure policy and scope, while noting the company does not operate a monetary bug bounty program. For a governance product asking enterprises to route sensitive AI traffic through it, the completed audits are what enterprise procurement asks for, and they are already in place this early in the company's life. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

The ecosystem play is aggregation of other vendors' models. The platform fronts more than 100 models from the major AI providers alongside privately hosted and open-source models, so its catalog breadth grows with the model market rather than with its own research. An OpenAI-SDK-compatible API, messaging-app integrations, and a browser extension extend the surfaces where the governed access applies.

Platform dependence cuts both ways. Aggregating rivals' models makes nexos.ai structurally neutral, the position its founders argue no single model provider can hold, but the same OpenAI-compatible interface that eases adoption also means a customer's integrations port to another gateway with modest rework. The AI Defense Matrix Catalog records the gateway as an active product securing AI gateways and routers. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

The team is the headline asset. Co-founders Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas built Nord Security, the NordVPN parent that reached a $3 billion valuation, and their track record drew Index Ventures into its first Lithuanian investment, Evantic Capital co-leading the Series A, and angel backing from the CEOs of Datadog, Klarna, Supercell, and Wix.

Execution capacity is scaling visibly. The founders front the public narrative while a hired Chief Commercial Officer, Justas Morkunas, runs the commercial motion from the Vilnius headquarters. At this stage, founder-led selling plus an early commercial hire is stage-appropriate rather than premature scaling. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [nexos.ai homepage: All-in-one AI platform](https://nexos.ai/) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f2 | [EU-Startups: With 30 million euros in funding, Vilnius-based nexos.ai sets its sights on AI adoption and the Shadow AI challenge](https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/10/with-e30-million-in-funding-vilnius-based-nexos-ai-sets-its-sights-on-ai-adoption-and-the-shadow-ai-challenge/) | press | 2026-07-03 |
| f3 | [nexos.ai: Privacy Policy (data controller spectra tech, UAB, Vilnius)](https://nexos.ai/legal/privacy-policy/) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f4 | [nexos.ai blog: nexos.ai raises €30M Series A to solve enterprise AI adoption crisis (dateline September 29, 2025)](https://nexos.ai/blog/nexos-funding-announcement/) | official | 2026-07-14 |
| f5 | [Nexos.ai (AI Defense Matrix Catalog)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/nexos-ai) | other | 2026-07-03 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [nexos.ai homepage (testimonials from Pigu.lt CMO Vytautas Romeika, Nord Security, and NordVPN leaders)](https://nexos.ai/) “Access 100+ top AI models in one secure, centralized interface” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [nexos.ai AI Gateway product page](https://nexos.ai/ai-gateway/) “You get one secure endpoint to manage all your LLM traffic with built-in guardrails, observability, fallback logic, and smart LLM routing.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [nexos.ai Workspace product page (observability and budget management)](https://nexos.ai/ai-workspace-for-multiple-llms/) “Built-in security with access controls and usage tracking for admins” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [nexos.ai pricing page (1-month and 12-month plans for individuals and teams; custom Enterprise plan; 14-day money-back guarantee)](https://nexos.ai/pricing/) “Our Enterprise plan includes everything in the standard plans, plus enhanced security features, team management tools, and detailed analytics” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [nexos.ai Trust Center (SafeBase: SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27001 SoA, GDPR; audit reports listed)](https://trust.nexos.ai/) “SOC 2 Type 2 Report” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [TechCrunch (Paul Sawers, January 17, 2025): Nord Security founders launch Nexos.ai (angels include the CEOs of Datadog, Klarna, Supercell, and Wix)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production/) “it later hit a $3 billion valuation during a subsequent fundraise). Their new company is exiting stealth today with $8 million in funding from a slew of high-profile backers, including lead investor Index Ventures, which has now made its first ever investment into Lithuania.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [TechCrunch (Anna Heim, October 20, 2025): Nexos AI raises a €30 million Series A at a reported €300 million valuation; revenue undisclosed](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/european-ai-rising-star-nexos-ai-raises-30m-to-unlock-enterprise-ai-adoption/) “Tesonet portfolio companies are also among the customers that Nexos.ai is disclosing, alongside Bulgarian fintech unicorn Payhawk, which also has an office in Vilnius.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | [EU-Startups: nexos.ai sets its sights on the Shadow AI challenge (founded in 2024; co-founders Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas built Nord Security)](https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/10/with-e30-million-in-funding-vilnius-based-nexos-ai-sets-its-sights-on-ai-adoption-and-the-shadow-ai-challenge/) “AI Gateway provides developers with plug-and-play API access to orchestrate all models through one endpoint, intelligent caching to reduce costs and improve latency, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities to ground responses in company documents.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s9 | [Forbes (Ron Schmelzer, November 25, 2025): Nexos.ai For Governed Enterprise AI (CCO Justas Morkunas: selling straight to the top)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2025/11/25/nord-security-founders-launch-nexosai-for-governed-enterprise-ai/) “The core idea is to standardize model access, apply policy at the platform edge, export full interaction logs into a company's security and identity management systems, and keep model spend predictable that finance can track.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s10 | [nexos.ai blog: nexos.ai raises €30M Series A to solve enterprise AI adoption crisis (dateline Vilnius, Lithuania, September 29, 2025)](https://nexos.ai/blog/nexos-funding-announcement/) “The funding round was co-led by former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller's debut fund Evantic Capital and existing investor Index Ventures. Previous investors Creandum, Dig Ventures, and notable angels participated.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s11 | [nexos.ai documentation portal (GitBook: Workspace, Gateway API, OpenAI SDKs)](https://docs.nexos.ai/) “Here you'll find comprehensive guides and resources divided into two main solutions” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s12 | [nexos.ai customer story: Payhawk (Boyko Karadzhov, Co-Founder and CTO)](https://nexos.ai/customer-stories/payhawk/) “Payhawk cuts security investigation time by 80% with nexos.ai” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s13 | [nexos.ai Security Practices (responsible disclosure policy)](https://nexos.ai/security-practices/) “nexos.ai does not currently operate a monetary bug bounty program.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s14 | [nexos.ai Privacy Policy (data controller spectra tech, UAB, Vilnius, Lithuania)](https://nexos.ai/legal/privacy-policy/) “The company responsible for handling your personal data is spectra tech, UAB (address: Švitrigailos g. 36, LT-03230 Vilnius, Lithuania” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s15 | [Nexos.ai (AI Defense Matrix Catalog)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/nexos-ai) “Enterprise AI gateway that routes requests across many LLMs through one secure endpoint and enforces security and usage policies, access controls, and budget limits on every interaction.” | other | 2026-07-03 |
| s16 | [Portkey homepage (competitor's page: acquisition by Palo Alto Networks announced as completed)](https://portkey.ai/) “We’re excited to announce Palo Alto Networks has completed the acquisition of Portkey.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s17 | [GitHub: BerriAI/litellm (public repository for the open-source LiteLLM AI gateway)](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) “Python SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging.” | other | 2026-07-03 |
| s18 | [WitnessAI homepage (competitor's page): Unified AI Security and Governance Platform](https://witness.ai/) “Unified AI Security and Governance Platform” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s19 | [Liminal homepage (competitor's page): The Way Enterprises Securely Leverage Generative AI](https://www.liminal.ai/) “The way enterprises securely leverage generative AI” | official | 2026-07-03 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [nexos.ai homepage (testimonials from Pigu.lt CMO Vytautas Romeika, Nord Security, and NordVPN leaders)](https://nexos.ai/) “Access 100+ top AI models in one secure, centralized interface” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [nexos.ai AI Gateway product page](https://nexos.ai/ai-gateway/) “You get one secure endpoint to manage all your LLM traffic with built-in guardrails, observability, fallback logic, and smart LLM routing.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [nexos.ai Workspace product page (observability and budget management)](https://nexos.ai/ai-workspace-for-multiple-llms/) “Built-in security with access controls and usage tracking for admins” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [nexos.ai pricing page (1-month and 12-month plans for individuals and teams; custom Enterprise plan; 14-day money-back guarantee)](https://nexos.ai/pricing/) “Our Enterprise plan includes everything in the standard plans, plus enhanced security features, team management tools, and detailed analytics” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [nexos.ai Trust Center (SafeBase: SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27001 SoA, GDPR; audit reports listed)](https://trust.nexos.ai/) “SOC 2 Type 2 Report” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [TechCrunch (Paul Sawers, January 17, 2025): Nord Security founders launch Nexos.ai (angels include the CEOs of Datadog, Klarna, Supercell, and Wix)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/nord-security-founders-launch-nexos-ai-to-help-enterprises-take-ai-projects-from-pilot-to-production/) “it later hit a $3 billion valuation during a subsequent fundraise). Their new company is exiting stealth today with $8 million in funding from a slew of high-profile backers, including lead investor Index Ventures, which has now made its first ever investment into Lithuania.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [TechCrunch (Anna Heim, October 20, 2025): Nexos AI raises a €30 million Series A at a reported €300 million valuation; revenue undisclosed](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/european-ai-rising-star-nexos-ai-raises-30m-to-unlock-enterprise-ai-adoption/) “Tesonet portfolio companies are also among the customers that Nexos.ai is disclosing, alongside Bulgarian fintech unicorn Payhawk, which also has an office in Vilnius.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | [EU-Startups: nexos.ai sets its sights on the Shadow AI challenge (founded in 2024; co-founders Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas built Nord Security)](https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/10/with-e30-million-in-funding-vilnius-based-nexos-ai-sets-its-sights-on-ai-adoption-and-the-shadow-ai-challenge/) “AI Gateway provides developers with plug-and-play API access to orchestrate all models through one endpoint, intelligent caching to reduce costs and improve latency, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities to ground responses in company documents.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s9 | [Forbes (Ron Schmelzer, November 25, 2025): Nexos.ai For Governed Enterprise AI (CCO Justas Morkunas: selling straight to the top)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2025/11/25/nord-security-founders-launch-nexosai-for-governed-enterprise-ai/) “The core idea is to standardize model access, apply policy at the platform edge, export full interaction logs into a company's security and identity management systems, and keep model spend predictable that finance can track.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s10 | [nexos.ai blog: nexos.ai raises €30M Series A to solve enterprise AI adoption crisis (dateline Vilnius, Lithuania, September 29, 2025)](https://nexos.ai/blog/nexos-funding-announcement/) “The funding round was co-led by former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller's debut fund Evantic Capital and existing investor Index Ventures. Previous investors Creandum, Dig Ventures, and notable angels participated.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s11 | [nexos.ai documentation portal (GitBook: Workspace, Gateway API, OpenAI SDKs)](https://docs.nexos.ai/) “Here you'll find comprehensive guides and resources divided into two main solutions” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s12 | [nexos.ai customer story: Payhawk (Boyko Karadzhov, Co-Founder and CTO)](https://nexos.ai/customer-stories/payhawk/) “Payhawk cuts security investigation time by 80% with nexos.ai” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s13 | [nexos.ai Security Practices (responsible disclosure policy)](https://nexos.ai/security-practices/) “nexos.ai does not currently operate a monetary bug bounty program.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s14 | [nexos.ai Privacy Policy (data controller spectra tech, UAB, Vilnius, Lithuania)](https://nexos.ai/legal/privacy-policy/) “The company responsible for handling your personal data is spectra tech, UAB (address: Švitrigailos g. 36, LT-03230 Vilnius, Lithuania” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s15 | [Nexos.ai (AI Defense Matrix Catalog)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/nexos-ai) “Enterprise AI gateway that routes requests across many LLMs through one secure endpoint and enforces security and usage policies, access controls, and budget limits on every interaction.” | other | 2026-07-03 |
| s16 | [Portkey homepage (competitor's page: acquisition by Palo Alto Networks announced as completed)](https://portkey.ai/) “We’re excited to announce Palo Alto Networks has completed the acquisition of Portkey.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s17 | [GitHub: BerriAI/litellm (public repository for the open-source LiteLLM AI gateway)](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) “Python SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging.” | other | 2026-07-03 |
| s18 | [WitnessAI homepage (competitor's page): Unified AI Security and Governance Platform](https://witness.ai/) “Unified AI Security and Governance Platform” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s19 | [Liminal homepage (competitor's page): The Way Enterprises Securely Leverage Generative AI](https://www.liminal.ai/) “The way enterprises securely leverage generative AI” | official | 2026-07-03 |

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