Checkstep Secures £3 Million To Scale AI-Powered Trust & Safety Infrastructure Globally

The round was led by Alea Capital Partners, with participation from Slow Ventures and Look AI Ventures.

Checkstep provides end-to-end content moderation for user-generated content, combining advanced artificial intelligence and Trust and Safety expertise.

The platform enables companies to automate policy enforcement ensure compliance with evolving global regulations, and scale content moderation operations across the EU, US and beyond.

With customers including Trustpilot, JustGiving, Daily Mail, and MoneySavingExpert, Checkstep is already safeguarding millions of users worldwide. The platform currently processes more than 60 million pieces of content each month, helping some of the world’s largest digital platforms stay ahead of increasingly complex regulatory requirements.

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“Trust and Safety is a critical function for any online platform,” said Guillaume Bouchard, CEO and Founder of Checkstep. “Checkstep is building the Trust and Safety infrastructure that makes it possible to keep users safe at scale. As platforms grow and regulations are increasingly enforced, this can’t be managed through fragmented tools or manual processes - it requires a unified system to enforce policy, manage risk, and operate globally. This funding allows us to accelerate our mission to power a safer digital world.”

Checkstep’s platform automates over 98% of moderation decisions while maintaining full auditability enabling organisations to operate with both efficiency and accountability. It has demonstrated strong growth over the past 12 months with notable net revenue retention and increasing demand from enterprise customers.

Alea highlighted Checkstep as a strong fit within its venture strategy, backing category defining B2B technology companies with global ambition. “Checkstep combines deep Trust and Safety domain expertise with strong, scalable technology and exceptional customer entrenchment,” said Rui Escaleira, Founding Partner at Alea Capital Partners. He added “With rapid, capital‑efficient growth and a product embedded in mission‑critical workflows the team has all the ingredients of a category leader as regulation turns Trust and Safety into core infrastructure for global digital platforms and defines the standard for industry.”

“Checkstep sits at the intersection of two powerful tailwinds: the explosion of user-generated content and the increasing regulatory burden on online platforms. We believe the company has built a mission-critical product in a category that is shifting from optional tooling to mandatory infrastructure. Combined with a technically exceptional team, strong customer validation, and a scalable enterprise business model, Checkstep represents the type of category-defining software company we actively seek to back,” said Angelo Burgarello, Partner at Look AI Ventures.

“Our conviction is further reinforced by the leadership of Guillaume Bouchard, who is not only a deep subject matter expert in Trust & Safety, but also a proven founder with prior exit experience, having successfully sold his previous company, Bloomsbury AI, to Facebook in 2018, giving us strong confidence that the team understands both how to build and how to scale a globally relevant technology business,” added Burgarello.

The new funding will support Checkstep’s continued product development, commercial expansion, and strategic partnerships as it scales its impact globally.

“We’re excited to partner with Alea Capital, Slow Ventures, and Look AI Ventures as we enter this next phase,” added Bouchard. “Together, we’re building the infrastructure that makes the internet safer, more compliant, and more resilient.”

About Checkstep

Checkstep is the AI content moderation platform that helps online platforms manage Trust and Safety at scale. By combining automation, policy expertise and compliance tools Checkstep is the trust infrastructure layer that enables organisations to protect their communities and meet global regulatory standards with confidence.