Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed
Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed

The Paris and New York-based start-up, founded in 2023, will use the new capital to deepen ERP integrations and push its agentic procurement platform into more enterprise environments. DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix are already on the customer list; $3bn …

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments
Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more…

This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins
This new app scans your clothes for PFAS, microplastics, and hidden toxins

  Most health-conscious consumers have already ditched plastic containers, switched to filtered water, and overhauled their skincare routines. Clothing, however, remains a stubborn blind spot, and a new app called Wove wants to change that. Launched th…

Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain
Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously…

Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI
Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI

Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup’s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Milan-based Lexroom, the legal AI startup focused on civi…

Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI
Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing. Law…

Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production

Accel led the London chip startup’s round, with Pat Gelsinger joining as an angel investor, weeks after Anthropic was reported to be in early discussions to become a customer. Fractile, the London-based startup designing inference chips that put comput…

Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses
Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses

The Milan- and Chicago-based startup, backed by Azimut Libera Impresa’s IXC3 fund, plans to scale agentic AI for SMBs and pursue acquisitions in the US. Webidoo, an Italian-American AI company building software for small and medium-sized businesses, ha…

A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.

  A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s …

Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations
Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations

Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that offe…