Leapter, the AI-native plat­form trans­form­ing how enter­prises build soft­ware, today announced it has secured €2 mil­lion in pre-seed fund­ing. The round was led by bm‑t beteili­gungs­man­age­ment thürin­gen GmbH with par­tic­i­pa­tion from SIVen­tures and a pool of angel investors. This invest­ment will fuel the devel­op­ment of Leapter’s visual-first plat­form, which is built to solve the crit­i­cal trust gap in AI-gen­er­ated code by ensur­ing human over­sight is at the core of AI-dri­ven development.

From a Black Box to a Glass Box: Making AI-Generated Code Enterprise-Ready

The promise of AI in soft­ware devel­op­ment is speed, but for any enter­prise, speed with­out trust is a lia­bil­ity. The com­mon belief is that AI will even­tu­ally get bet­ter at writ­ing per­fect code, but this misses the fun­da­men­tal chal­lenge: raw code itself is a black box, under­stood only by a tech­ni­cal few. Wait­ing for a bet­ter black box isn’t a strategy.

Leapter solves this trust gap by chang­ing the medium entirely. The Leapter plat­form trans­lates busi­ness require­ments not into more opaque code, but into exe­cutable blue­prints: struc­tured, visual dia­grams that serve as the sin­gle source of truth for a project.

This is Leapter’s core inno­va­tion. Unlike source code, which requires devel­op­ers to act as inter­preters, these visual blue­prints can be directly under­stood, val­i­dated, and refined by the peo­ple who know the busi­ness best—from prod­uct lead­ers and busi­ness ana­lysts to com­pli­ance offi­cers and legal experts. It cre­ates a shared lan­guage that bridges the dan­ger­ous gap between busi­ness intent and tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­tion, ensur­ing what gets built is aligned, secure, and cor­rect by design.

This “glass box” approach is being rec­og­nized as a crit­i­cal enabler for true enter­prise AI adoption.

“For the past decade, enter­prise IT has been about bal­anc­ing speed with con­trol,” said Phil Le-Brun, Direc­tor of Enter­prise Strat­egy at AWS and for­mer Global Tech­nol­ogy VP at McDon­ald’s. “Gen­er­a­tive AI presents a mas­sive oppor­tu­nity but simul­ta­ne­ously can intro­duce risk if it oper­ates as a black box. Leapter’s genius is in its ‘glass box’ approach. It pro­vides the auditabil­ity and human-in-the-loop gov­er­nance that CIOs and CISOs need to con­fi­dently deploy AI-dri­ven devel­op­ment at scale. It’s the miss­ing link for enter­prise-grade AI adoption.”

Why Leapter Is Different

While other AI tools focus on help­ing indi­vid­ual devel­op­ers write code faster, Leapter’s plat­form is designed for true cross-func­tional col­lab­o­ra­tion. It empow­ers your busi­ness experts and key stake­hold­ers to describe require­ments in plain lan­guage, then visu­ally review and refine the system’s logic along­side their tech­ni­cal col­leagues. This unique, inter­ac­tive process allows your orga­ni­za­tion to move from ini­tial idea to pro­duc­tion-ready sys­tem with unprece­dented speed and align­ment, elim­i­nat­ing the costly risks of tra­di­tional project handoffs.

This is pos­si­ble through three core differentiators:

• From Black Box to Clar­ity: Instead of pro­duc­ing opaque source code, Leapter gen­er­ates clear, visual blue­prints of the sys­tem’s logic. This turns com­plex processes into some­thing any­one can under­stand, ques­tion, and validate.
• Unite Busi­ness & IT: Leapter’s visual inter­face becomes the com­mon lan­guage for your entire orga­ni­za­tion. Now, teams in Finance, Oper­a­tions, Mar­ket­ing, and Legal can co-cre­ate and approve solu­tions directly with IT, ensur­ing busi­ness needs are per­fectly trans­lated from day one.
• Built-in Trust and Com­pli­ance: Every step, from the ini­tial prompt to the final logic, is fully trace­able. This pro­vides the unbreak­able audit trail required to oper­ate with con­fi­dence in finan­cially reg­u­lated and other mis­sion-crit­i­cal industries.

“We saw teams get­ting stuck between the promise of AI and the real­ity of enter­prise soft­ware devel­op­ment” said Robert Werner, Co-founder and CTO of Leapter. “You can’t just throw AI-gen­er­ated code over the wall and hope for the best. That’s why we built Leapter around ‘exe­cutable blueprints’—to empower the entire team to build sys­tems that are cor­rect by design.”

Meet the Founders

Leapter was founded by Oliver Welte and Robert Werner. Together, they bring deep exper­tise in build­ing and sell­ing enter­prise-grade soft­ware to reg­u­lated indus­tries from their time at com­pa­nies like Piv­otal, VMWare and Broad­com.

Backed by Visionaries

Leapter’s fund­ing round was led by bm‑t beteili­gungs­man­age­ment thürin­gen GmbH, with sup­port from SIVen­tures and angel investors includ­ing Frank Stum­mer, Roman Duden­hausen. Investors were drawn to the team’s clar­ity of vision and the urgent need for safer, smarter AI dev workflows.

“The mar­ket for AI devel­op­ment tools is explod­ing, but Leapter stood out imme­di­ately,” stated Stephan Beier, Senior Invest­ment Man­ager at bm|t. “Oliver and Robert pos­sess a rare com­bi­na­tion of deep enter­prise expe­ri­ence and a com­pelling vision for a new, more trust­wor­thy devel­op­ment par­a­digm. Their focus on auditable, human-ver­i­fi­able AI is not just a feature—it’s the key to unlock­ing the mas­sive enter­prise mar­ket. We are con­vinced that Leapter has the right team and tech­nol­ogy to become a cat­e­gory leader.”

That sen­ti­ment is echoed by Leapter’s angel investors, who see the com­pany as uniquely posi­tioned to reshape how soft­ware is built.

“Leapter is dif­fer­ent. It does­n’t just help the devel­oper; it helps the entire orga­ni­za­tion. By mak­ing busi­ness logic vis­i­ble and ver­i­fi­able, Leapter elim­i­nates ambi­gu­ity and allows teams to ship com­plex fea­tures with unprece­dented veloc­ity and con­fi­dence.” said Frank Stum­mer, angel investor.

What’s Next

Leapter is cur­rently in pri­vate beta with early design part­ners and will use the new fund­ing to grow its engi­neer­ing team, expand its visual lan­guage, and launch more enter­prise inte­gra­tions. To join the beta or learn more, visit Leapter.com.

About Leapter

Leapter is the AI-native soft­ware devel­op­ment plat­form built for cross-func­tional enter­prise teams. Instead of gen­er­at­ing opaque, devel­oper-cen­tric code, Leapter cre­ates exe­cutable blue­prints: struc­tured, visual sys­tems that busi­ness and tech­nol­ogy stake­hold­ers can jointly ver­ify, under­stand, and own, bridg­ing the crit­i­cal trust gap between AI speed and human oversight.

About bm|t

bm‑t beteili­gungs­man­age­ment thürin­gen GmbH (bm|t), based in Erfurt, is the lead­ing ven­ture cap­i­tal and pri­vate equity firm in Thuringia. bm|t cur­rently man­ages thir­teen funds with a total vol­ume of approx­i­mately EUR 465 mil­lion, invest­ing in inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies across nearly all sec­tors and stages of cor­po­rate development—from start-up and growth phases to suc­ces­sion sit­u­a­tions. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion: www.bm‑t.de

About SIV

SIVen­tures is a ven­ture cap­i­tal fund based in Leipzig that invests in early-stage tech­nol­ogy star­tups across the DACH region. The fund focuses on B2B busi­ness mod­els in the fields of energy, IT infra­struc­ture, AI appli­ca­tions, and related sec­tors. Beyond pro­vid­ing cap­i­tal, SIVen­tures actively sup­ports its port­fo­lio com­pa­nies with hands-on strate­gic guid­ance, access to a broad net­work, and deep entre­pre­neur­ial expertise.
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