AI Startups Draw Fresh Funding Across US and Europe for Finance, Fashion and Construction

In Spain, Barcelona-based Artiso raised more than €3 million in a fully equity pre-Seed round, EU-Startups reported. Criteria Venture Tech led the round, with Swanlaab Venture Factory and Bynd Venture Capital joining, alongside angels including Cyberclick co-founder David Tomás and GANNI founder and former CEO Nicolaj Reffstrup, who invests through Look Up Ventures. Artiso was founded in Barcelona in 2025 by CEO Sarah Iglesias Hiller, CPO Lucas Pastur Romay and CTO Matthias Brenninkmeijer, all former Mango executives. The company, which emerged from stealth in July 2025, describes its product as an AI operating system for fashion teams that links inspiration, design, product development and pre-production on top of each brand's own archive.

In the United States, San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million in a Series C round that values the company at $4.1 billion, Ventureburn reported. CapitalG and Emergence Capital co-led the deal. The valuation marks a sharp increase from $1.75 billion after a $270 million raise in February 2026. Bedrock makes a self-driving kit that attaches to excavators contractors already own, rather than building its own machines. Since mid-August 2026, Bedrock-retrofitted excavators have performed paid work on live commercial sites, including a water treatment facility in Nevada, an earthwork site run by Champion Site Prep in Texas, and a 1.2 million-cubic-yard civil project with Zachry Construction. Arizona contractor Haydon is its newest partner, and regional partners in Minnesota, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Virginia have also signed on. CEO Boris Sofman, who previously led Waymo's self-driving truck program and co-founded Anki, told The Robot Report that new customer demand is very high.

The Italian deeptech startup will develop and commercialise Silver Eye, a device-free monitoring system that uses AI and sensors to detect falls and behavioural changes.