AI Score’s $5.4M Seed: Runtime Governance for Enterprise Agents
Fuel Ventures led a $5.4M seed for London’s AI Score — NCSC-rooted founders selling live oversight of generative and agentic AI as boards lose visibility into what agents actually do.
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Fuel Ventures led a $5.4M seed for London’s AI Score — NCSC-rooted founders selling live oversight of generative and agentic AI as boards lose visibility into what agents actually do.
NYC’s Easy Aerial closed $20M with Insight Partners and Entrée Capital — scaling tethered UAS that stay aloft on ground power for defense and critical infrastructure.
Ex-Henchman founders raised €4M led by Pitchdrive — with Agristo and Darta on the cap table — to automate food quality ops still stuck in spreadsheets and email.
Bootstrapped Diameter Pay raised $10M co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction after claiming >$10B YTD payment volume — selling compliant USD access, not a consumer remittance app.
Munich’s Zeit AI closed €5M (~$5.8M) with YC, Hasso Plattner VC, and industrial angels — pitching ZeitMind as the autonomous data engineer Mittelstand firms cannot hire.
TechCrunch’s September 4 tape: XDOF in late-stage Series B talks at about $1.2 billion (8VC; amount unknown) and Nscale shopping about $3.5 billion of pre-IPO paper ($1.5 billion converts plus $2 billion Nvidia). Neither is a company close.