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Find out more- LUMIQ, an AI-native financial services company, has closed a strategic funding round led by Bajaj Finserv, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures, to scale its autonomous decisioning platform across the United States and Southeast Asia. The capital will expand go-to-market efforts in the US and Southeast Asia, deepen the decisioning capabilities of LUMIQ’s LiteCone platform, extend its AI agent workforce across additional financial-services roles and build a partnership ecosystem with cloud hyperscalers, AI labs and core banking and insurance platforms. LUMIQ’s LiteCone platform deploys AI agents that read case files, apply an institution’s own guidelines and reach decisions end to end, escalating only cases that require human judgment, with reasoning attached and cross-referenced to policy for audit purposes.
- Category Ventures leads HeyMilo’s $6mn raise to expand AI recruiting agents
HeyMilo, an agentic recruiting platform for high-volume hiring, has raised a total of USD 6mn led by Category Ventures, with participation from Canaan Partners, Alumni Ventures and ERA. Alongside the funding, HeyMilo is launching three new agent types. AI Scenario Assessment puts candidates through a live scenario with a built-in AI assistant and scores how they plan, prompt and judge AI output. Candidate Recommendations resurfaces previously screened applicants from the ATS and returns ranked shortlists without manual re-engagement. Notetaker captures structured notes across live recruiter-led interviews so each candidate interaction produces consistent, reviewable signals. HeyMilo builds structured screening into the job application itself, running voice, video, phone, SMS and resume agents as soon as a candidate applies. Recruiters receive rubric-scored results and evidence-backed transcripts inside the ATS they already use. The company has onboarded staffing agencies, RPOs and enterprise employers including Randstad, WilsonHCG and Neo Financial, and has screened more than one million candidates in production across staffing, BPO and high-volume corporate hiring. - Qorelo raises €3mn seed round co-led by HPI Ventures and Caesar Ventures
Qorelo, a Berlin-based startup building an AI engine for ERP delivery, has raised EUR 3mn (USD 3.5mn) in a seed round five months after the company was founded. The round was co-led by HPI Ventures and Caesar Ventures, with participation from 10x Founders, Antler, Adesso Ventures and Angel Invest. The funding will be used to hire engineering and sales staff as Qorelo scales its platform across Europe. The company has built an AI intelligence layer that automates the upgrade and migration of ERP projects running on SAP software, targeting the functional delivery workstream of transformation programmes to cut project timelines by 45%. The platform also functions as a system of record for ERP delivery, aiming to keep corporate operational data continuously ready for use with artificial intelligence tools. - Dawn Capital backs Orbio’s €18mn Series A to scale AI workforce platform for frontline teams
Orbio, a Madrid-based AI workforce platform for global enterprises with frontline teams, has raised EUR 18.09mn in a Series A funding round with Dawn Capital and existing investor Visionaries. The capital will fund expansion into new markets, growth across existing and new enterprise customers and the continued build-out of Orbio’s agent suite across the full employee lifecycle. Orbio was founded in 2025 by chief executive Sergi Bastardas, chief revenue officer Nacho Travesà and chief technology officer Antonio Melé. The company deploys AI agents to automate frontline hiring, onboarding and workforce management, aiming to reduce turnover and streamline recruitment for industries including healthcare, retail, warehousing, hospitality and logistics. The round follows a EUR 6.4mn raise the company closed in September 2025, led by Visionaries Club.