Three Startups Across MENA, US and Europe Secure Fresh Funding

Corridor has raised $25 million in seed funding to expand its AI-driven health benefits brokerage, Ventureburn reported. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, with participation from BoxGroup and executives from companies including OpenAI, Scale AI and Ramp.

The company serves businesses with one to 500 employees, a segment it says often receives less support from traditional brokers because smaller accounts require comparable work for lower commissions. Corridor pairs licensed advisors with AI agents that handle administrative tasks such as checking provider networks, organising insurance information, scheduling care and comparing quotes across carriers. Human advisors then present suitable options to employers. The financing is intended to support expansion ahead of the next benefits cycle.

Spott raises €18.3 million for recruitment software

Leuven-based Spott, an AI-native applicant tracking and customer relationship management platform for recruitment agencies, has raised €18.3 million ($21 million) in a Series A round, according to EU-Startups. Balderton Capital led the round, with participation from Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortino. The round follows a €2.8 million ($3.2 million) seed round raised in March 2025.

Founded in 2024 by Lander Degreve, Manu Vanderveeren and Samuel Smeys, Spott grew out of the founders' experience advising recruitment firms at McKinsey, Bain and BCG. The company argues that human judgement accounts for only about a fifth of a recruiter's workload, with the remainder consumed by administrative tasks and candidate sourcing that it says AI can handle. Spott serves recruitment firms across Europe, the US and APAC from its Leuven headquarters.

EU-Startups reported that Balderton Capital partner Phil Chambers said the founders understood an overlooked problem because they had seen its operational and commercial impact first-hand, and that the pace of customer adoption showed they had built a solution the market had been waiting for.