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Willow, an agentic access platform, has emerged from stealth with USD 7mn in Seed funding led by Hetz Ventures, following early angel investment from Wix co-founder and CEO Avishai Abrahami and president Nir Zohar. The funding will go toward the next phase of Willow’s go-to-market efforts and accelerating product development. Willow’s governance and access layer gives organizations visibility and control over how AI agents connect to internal systems and what actions they can perform. The platform oversees which AI agents employees are using, monitors risky or unauthorized integrations and applies granular controls around how agents interact with enterprise systems and data. It connects AI agents including Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini and n8n to internal systems through a marketplace of connectors, skills and plugins, with authorizations, access controls and audit trails built in. The platform runs as SaaS, dedicated cloud or self-hosted, including air-gapped environments. - Aippy completes first funding round to fund growth
Aippy, the AI-native game community developed by NADA AI, has closed its first funding round led by Glowill Capital at a post-money valuation of USD 250mn, with proceeds described as “tens of millions of dollars.” The capital will fund global talent acquisition and user growth as the company expands its creator ecosystem, including investment in recommendation and distribution systems, creator growth tools and community support infrastructure. Launched in April 2025, Aippy allows users to create, share and play AI-generated games. The platform has surpassed three million downloads, is approaching two million monthly active users and has hosted more than two million user-created games, with daily publishing volume up tenfold since January. More than 30% of new users now arrive through non-paid channels. Glowill Capital is a Hong Kong-founded multi-strategy investment platform active across artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biopharmaceuticals, semiconductors and clean energy. - DN Capital leads $20m Series A in AI sales platform Airspeed
Airspeed has raised USD 20mn in a Series A round led by DN Capital, with participation from Framework.vc, Atlassian Ventures and Vi Partners. The funding will be used to build out three areas: a context layer that supplies AI agents with organisation-specific information, sub-agent orchestration to process and surface insights across large sales teams, and a unified customer data platform drawing on structured and unstructured sources across multiple tools.
Airspeed, founded in London in 2022 by Devang Agrawal and Adam Liska, formerly of DeepMind, builds AI agents for go-to-market teams that automate the extraction and execution of insights from sales conversations, customer interactions and deal data. The company has grown revenue fourfold year-on-year and counts close to 200 customers. - Revaia leads £30m Series C in healthcare platform Semble
Semble has raised GBP 30mn in a Series C round led by Revaia, with Partech joining as a new investor alongside existing backers Mercia Ventures and Octopus Ventures. The investment comes as healthcare providers across the UK and Europe face mounting operational pressure caused by fragmented technology systems, rising patient demand and a generational shift towards private medical insurance and self-pay care models. Therefore, it will use the funding to expand into larger healthcare groups across the UK and Europe, deepen its presence in France and advance its positioning as an AI orchestration layer for private outpatient care delivery.
Founded to address fragmentation in healthcare coordination, Semble provides a clinical platform for outpatient providers to manage the patient journey. More than 10 million patients have received care from clinicians using the platform, which serves 1,700 customers including Nuffield Health, Welbeck and London Doctors Clinic. The company has grown headcount by more than 50% since December 2024 and supports integrations with over 1,200 external tools. - Highland Europe and Index Ventures lead $70mn Series B in legal AI platform Wordsmith
Wordsmith has raised EUR 70mn in a Series B round led by Highland Europe and Index Ventures, bringing total funding to EUR 86mn. The Edinburgh-based company will use the capital to accelerate development of its AI platform, expand its US presence and grow its headcount to 300 employees by the end of 2025. The round comes alongside new enterprise customer wins including Sage and Starling.
Wordsmith builds a legal operations platform for in-house teams, routing and resolving requests received via email, Slack, Salesforce and other channels, with AI handling routine matters and escalating to lawyers where judgment is required. - Berlin’s INXM exits stealth with €5.7mn to run enterprise AI from intent to outcome
INXM has raised EUR 5.7mn in a pre-seed round led by Cherry Ventures and Redstone, with Angel Invest and Linden Capital also participating, as the Berlin-based startup exits stealth mode. The funding will finance the company’s first enterprise deployments.
Founded in 2025 by Alex Oelling, Matthias Kainer, Jesper Bylund and Kamil Klüber, INXM builds a process execution engine for enterprise and Mittelstand operations. The platform uses AI to design and improve processes, then runs them deterministically, coordinating work across existing systems, people and workflows to produce auditable outcomes without replacing incumbent infrastructure. - StratusGrid raises $3mn seed round to close the gap between cloud visibility and execution
StratusGrid raises $3mn seed round to close the gap between cloud visibility and execution StratusGrid has raised USD 3mn in seed financing, its first outside capital round, led by Atlanta-based Dogwood Ventures with participation from Market Square Ventures, LaunchTN, VentureSouth, Service Provider Capital and several strategic angel investors. The company had bootstrapped the business prior to this raise. The financing will accelerate development of StratusGrid’s Stratusphere platform, expand product and engineering capacity, and scale go-to-market efforts targeting private equity-backed software companies and enterprises managing large AWS and Azure environments. StratusGrid helps enterprises address infrastructure sprawl in cloud environments by moving beyond visibility to execution. Its platform identifies optimization opportunities, plans the work, routes approvals, supports execution of approved changes and verifies results across AWS and Azure environments. - Kosmos launches with $5mn Seed round led by Norwest to tackle enterprise escalation chaos
Operational intelligence company Kosmos has launched commercially alongside a USD 5mn Seed round led by Norwest. The funding will accelerate product development and market education as the company brings correlated root-cause intelligence to enterprise support and engineering teams. Kosmos’s AI-native platform reduces the time teams spend manually reconstructing what happened during a service incident by correlating signals across Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, ServiceNow and observability platforms including Datadog, Grafana and Splunk. Each correlation is proposed by machine, confirmed by humans and learned by the system, linking customer cases, code changes and service incidents in a single view so teams can resolve issues faster and prevent them recurring.