London's Ares Intelligence Raises €2.9M to Map Enterprise AI Adoption

The platform deploys an AI interviewer that conducts confidential, voice-based conversations with employees across an organisation, supporting more than 70 languages. Within weeks, leadership receives a prioritised roadmap identifying where AI could reduce time and costs.

The platform is GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant, with anonymisation controls that allow businesses to mask names, redact voices, or remove role metadata before reports reach leadership. Customers can deploy it on their own cloud or use Ares' infrastructure, in either the EU or the US.

Richard Keuntje, Vice President at Creandum, told EU-Startups that enterprise AI today is mostly coding, and that this is only the start, adding that the opportunity across the rest of the business is far larger and still largely untapped, and that enterprise adoption is at a very early stage.

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

Hyphenate, Artiso and Bedrock Robotics each closed new rounds in October 2026, applying AI agents and automation to finance, fashion design and heavy construction equipment.