Funding
Aug 18, 2026
xpander.ai Raises $7.5M to Govern Enterprise AI Agent Sprawl
xpander.ai, founded by three former AWS principal engineers, is launching its enterprise AI agent platform and closing a $7.5M seed round today. The company is betting that enterprises need a vendor-neutral control plane — above their models, frameworks, and clouds — to govern an agent population that Gartner projects will hit 150,000 per Fortune 500 firm by 2028. The round was led by Pico Venture Partners, with Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL participating.
Enterprise AI
AI Agents
Infrastructure
Aug 17, 2026
Amber Raises €7M Series A to Fix Enterprise Knowledge Chaos
Aachen-based amber has closed a €7M Series A co-led by Ventech and NRW.Venture to expand its AI knowledge platform across Europe, beginning with Benelux. The company's proprietary AI Data Layer unifies fragmented enterprise data before passing it to LLMs — targeting the SME segment that most AI vendors overlook. With a prior €2.1M seed already in the bank, amber has now raised approximately €9.1M in total.
Funding
AI
Enterprise AI
Aug 14, 2026
Databricks Closes $5B Round at $190B Valuation
Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation after investor demand wildly exceeded the company's original $1B target. CEO Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch the raise was catalyzed by a leaked press report during the company's own conference, triggering a flood of inbound calls. Revenue has now crossed a $7B annualized run rate, growing more than 80% year over year.
AI
Venture Capital
Enterprise AI
Aug 13, 2026
Skan AI Raises $63M to Map the Work That AI Agents Can't See
Skan AI has closed a $63M Series C to bring its screen-observation platform to the heart of enterprise AI deployment. The seven-year-old startup argues that AI agents keep failing not because the models are bad, but because the process documentation they're trained on is fiction. Its new Blueprint and Agents products aim to fix that — by watching how work actually happens.
AI Agents
Enterprise AI
Funding
Aug 13, 2026
Lovable Raises $400M Series C at $13.3B Valuation
Stockholm-based vibe-coding startup Lovable has closed a $400M Series C co-led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, pushing its valuation to $13.3B — more than double the $6.6B it commanded just eight months ago. The round draws a broad global syndicate spanning Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the US. Lovable plans to grow headcount by 50% to 450 and push deeper into enterprise markets while expanding its multi-model AI strategy.
AI
Funding
Startups
Aug 13, 2026
Cognition in Talks to Raise Again at $40B Valuation
Cognition, makers of AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly in early talks to raise more than $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion — a 54% jump from the $26 billion it commanded just three months ago. The company's annualized revenue run rate is approaching $1 billion, roughly double what it reported at its last financing. If the round closes, it would cement Cognition as one of the most valuable pure-play AI coding companies in the world.
AI
Venture Capital
Startups
Aug 12, 2026
Cytix Raises $7M to Manage Cyber Risk of AI-Written Code
Manchester-based Cytix has closed a $7M Series A led by Northern Gritstone to scale its change risk management platform — purpose-built to give security teams visibility into the business risk introduced by AI-assisted software development. The startup counts NCC Group and KPMG among its managed service partners and is targeting enterprise and regulated-industry customers.
Cybersecurity
AI
Funding
Aug 12, 2026
STRGY AI Raises €1M to Close the Strategy Execution Gap
Helsinki-based STRGY AI has closed a €1M angel round to scale StrategyOS, an AI platform that gives leadership teams a live view of how daily work maps to strategic priorities. Backers span private angels from four countries, Innovestor's Angel CoFund, and non-dilutive support from Business Finland. The company is targeting Chiefs of Staff, Heads of Strategy, and COOs at mid-market and enterprise organisations.
AI
Startups
Funding
Aug 12, 2026
River AI Lands $1.1B Seed and Series A at Two Months Old
River AI, founded just two months ago by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has closed a $1.1B seed and Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC — one of the largest debut financings in AI history. The Palo Alto startup is building a full-stack platform for open-weight model customization, betting enterprises will ditch one-size-fits-all models and own their own AI. Strategic backers NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek also joined the round.
AI
Funding
Agents
Aug 11, 2026
HSBC Asset Management Backs Model ML, Pushing Total Raised Past $100M
Model ML, the London-founded AI automation startup built for financial services, has secured an equity investment from HSBC Asset Management, pushing the company's total funding past $100M. The startup — which counts Deloitte and PwC among its clients — is betting that orchestrating multiple AI models across complex workflows is more valuable than any single model.
Fintech
AI
Automation
Aug 8, 2026
Naïve Raises $28.5M to Let AI Agents Run Your Company
Naïve, a Palo Alto AI infrastructure startup founded by two 20-year-old UC Berkeley dropouts, has raised $28.5M in Series A funding to let AI agents handle the full operational stack of launching and running a business — from LLC formation to payments, email, and cloud infra — all through a single API. The company signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of launch and grew ARR 10x in six months. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with backing from Y Combinator and a roster of notable angels.
AI
Funding
Startups
Aug 5, 2026
BLP Digital's Tim Beck on Scaling AI Across Europe
Swiss AI startup BLP Digital has surpassed 500 enterprise customers and recently closed a new funding round. Founder Tim Beck shares how an early commitment to customer proximity shaped the company's growth and what's next for its European expansion.
AI
Startups
Enterprise AI
Aug 3, 2026
June Raises $20M Pre-Seed to Fix AI Deployment With AI
June emerged from stealth with a $20 million pre-seed round backed by Marc Benioff, aiming to eliminate the friction companies face when deploying AI. The startup's pitch: use AI itself to solve the AI adoption problem.
AI
Enterprise AI
Startups
Aug 3, 2026
Berlin's Zelara Raises €3M to Rebuild CRM With AI
Berlin-based startup Zelara has secured €3 million in early funding to rethink CRM systems using AI at their core. Founder Björn Heckel shares the vision, the hard lessons, and what's next for the company.
Startups
AI
CRM
Aug 3, 2026
European Tech Raised €44.1B in H1 2026
European tech companies closed €44.1 billion across 1,740 deals in the first half of 2026, with the UK dominating and AI startups pulling in nearly €6 billion. Last week alone saw €878M across 50+ deals and more than 10 exits and M&A transactions.
Funding
European Tech
AI
Jul 31, 2026
Ellis AI Raises $10M Seed for Private Credit Automation
Ellis AI has emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding, targeting the largely manual workflows of private credit managers with AI-powered automation. The startup is led by repeat founder Ryan Williams, who previously built and sold a real estate investment platform.
AI
Startups
Fintech
Jul 31, 2026
Inforcer Raises $50M Series C for MSP AI Security
UK-based Inforcer has closed a $50 million Series C led by Insight Partners to expand its unified Microsoft security and AI management platform for managed service providers. The round comes as SMB-focused MSPs face mounting pressure from AI-enhanced cyber threats and growing demand for Microsoft 365 governance. Existing backers Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital also participated.
Cybersecurity
AI
Funding
Jul 31, 2026
Intropy Raises $11M for AI in the Spare Parts Market
London-based Intropy has closed an $11M seed round led by Felix Capital to automate inventory and pricing decisions for spare parts distributors, manufacturers, and recyclers. Founded by two ex-Tractable researchers, the startup has already processed over $10 billion in spare parts demand since launching in 2024. The funding will fuel US expansion and accelerated product development.
AI
Startups
Funding
Jul 30, 2026
Ex-Meta, Slack Engineers Raise $15M for AI 'Deal GPS'
Centralize, founded by ex-Meta and Slack engineers, has emerged from stealth with a $15M Series A led by NEA. The platform uses AI agents to map buying committees in real time — tackling the 'multi-threading' problem that quietly kills enterprise deals. The startup claims nearly 8x revenue growth since last year.
Enterprise AI
Startups
Funding
Jul 29, 2026
Qureight Raises $20M Series B for AI Trial Imaging
Cambridge-based Qureight has closed a $20M Series B led by Molten Ventures to expand its AI-powered imaging platform for clinical trials. The funding will support new disease models across asthma, pulmonary hypertension, and drug-induced lung toxicity, building on the company's existing dominance in lung fibrosis.
AI
Healthcare
Funding