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AI Score funding, valuation and investors

Real-time governance and control for generative and agentic AI across the enterprise.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Seed

$5.4M · September 2026

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$5.4M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed · London, United Kingdom

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Fuel Ventures

Other: GALLOS Technologies

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-09-06

Overview

AI Score is a London-based AI governance startup founded in 2025 by Alex Harland, Benita Tibb, and Jonathan Kewley. Its platform tracks and controls generative and agentic AI use across organisations, assigning ownership, risk profiles, and audit trails. In September 2026 it raised $5.4 million in seed funding led by Fuel Ventures, with founding investor GALLOS Technologies and angels including Alan Morgan and Mo El Husseiny; the company previously raised about $1 million pre-seed in November 2025 (Tech.eu, Sky News).

Why AI Score is interesting

NCSC founding-team CEO Alex Harland raised $5.4M seed led by Fuel Ventures (Sep 2026) with GALLOS returning and Sir Jeremy Fleming advising — selling live agent oversight to law firms and regulated brands as EU AI Act enforcement ramps.

Product & use cases

Continuous monitoring and control layer for enterprise generative and agentic AI — visibility, ownership, risk scoring, and guardrails without freezing adoption.

  • Board/risk oversight of employee and agent AI use
  • Regulated industries needing audit trails for AI Act / cyber controls
  • Agent sprawl detection across SaaS and internal tools

Key facts

  • $5.4M seed led by Fuel Ventures (Sep 2026); ~$1M pre-seed Nov 2025 — ~$6.4M disclosed total
  • CEO Alex Harland was part of UK NCSC founding team; Sir Jeremy Fleming advises (Sky News)
  • Customers described as law firms, FTSE 250, fintech, and global consumer brands (company — unnamed)

Funding history (newest first)

Seed

2026-09 $5.4M
  • Fuel Ventures (lead)
  • GALLOS Technologies (participant)

Source: https://tech.eu/2026/09/04/uk-startup-ai-score-raises-54m-to-scale-its-enterprise-ai-governance-platform/

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Cybersecurity Enterprise SaaS

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