Category: Startups

London’s AI Score raises €4.6 million to help businesses keep AI agents under control UK-based AI Score, a startup easing the adoption and management of gen- and agentic-AI, has raised €4.6 million ($5.4 million) in Seed funding to accelerate product development, expand its operations, and continue building its platform for

Pirkx joins Pri0r1ty Intelligence as AI company expands into employee wellbeing and benefits UK wellness startup Pirkx has been acquired by the publicly-listed British company Pri0r1ty Intelligence adding an SME-focused employee wellbeing and benefits platform to its growing portfolio of AI-powered solutions. The acquisition will see Pri0r1ty integrate Pirkx’s existing

Belgium’s WAD Capital reaches €67.5 million first close for debut fund following €25 million EIF investment Belgian investment firm WAD Capital has completed the first closing of its fund at €67.5 million with a €25 million investment from the European Investment Fund (EIF), making the EU’s development bank the largest

The top 10 investors in the Nordics Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-top-investors-behind-sifteds-nordics-2026-leaderboard/

Bessemer and Creandum set to back new AI infrastructure startup at $600m valuation, sources say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/bessemer-creandum-gridfield/

Exclusive: H cofounder Laurent Sifre joins Microsoft Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/exclusive-h-cofounder-laurent-sifre-joins-microsoft/

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app. Powered by

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/ai-compute-provider-nscale-is-looking-for-3-5b-in-pre-ipo-financing/

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/openais-rogue-agents-keep-escaping-with-no-formal-process-to-investigate-them/

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/xdof-just-three-months-out-of-stealth-is-in-talks-for-a-series-b-at-a-1-2b-valuation/