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Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Funding and deals: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

Funding and deals14

1Funding news
Fleuret raises €4m pre-seed for AI-run penetration testing
The Paris startup runs two AI agents named Emile and Champollion, has about ten staff and counts Brevo, Stoïk and Yogosha as customers. RAISE Ventures led the round.
2Funding news
Santé raises $15m Series A for AI point of sale in liquor stores
The New York company says revenue grew five times in 2025 and again this year as it sells to independent wine and liquor retailers.
3Funding news
Polygrade raises $6.3m seed for AI agents that handle warranty claims
The Toronto company, formerly called ProPay, emerges from stealth with two named home warranty customers and plans to move into extended and OEM warranty.
4Funding news
Vitalize raises $31m Series A to automate hospital staffing
The San Francisco company says its platform saves clinical leaders more than 2,000 hours a day and has cut premium labour spend by 54% at one health system.
5Funding news
Stuut raises $52.5m Series B for AI agents that run order-to-cash
The New York company closed the round ten months after its Series A and plans to add credit, lending and fund movement to its receivables software.
6Funding news
Siena raises $17m Series A to build AI customer agents for brands
The New York company, founded in 2023, says its agents already handle hundreds of millions of customer interactions for hundreds of consumer brands including SPANX and FIGS.
7Funding news
Desible.ai raises ₹32 crore to scale voice AI for banks
The Bengaluru company says its agents handle calls for banking and insurance clients and will use the Seed Plus money to widen Indian language coverage and security controls.
8Funding news
Nous Research raises $90m to build Hermes for Businesses
The open-source Hermes Agent, released under an MIT licence in February, will get a business edition. Nous does not state a round name or a headquarters city.
9Funding news
PlannerPal raises $6m led by Mercia for AI in financial advice
Ada Ventures, which led the pre-seed in February 2024, returns. PlannerPal says more than 250 UK advice firms use it and it is built into Iress Xplan.
10Funding news
Flyle raises ¥1.88bn Series A for its AI contact centre agents
The Tokyo company, founded in 2020, has now raised about ¥2.27bn in total. Its AI Operator for phone, chat and email becomes generally available in November.
11Funding news
Ampersand raises $15m to connect AI agents to CRMs and ERPs
The San Francisco company says it has worked with 11x, Orb and Square over three years, and will use the money to build an agent that maintains integrations.
12Funding news
Vocca raises $20m Series A for AI that answers patient calls
The Paris and New York company says practitioners on its platform grew from 2,000 to 15,000 in a year and that it now handles over a million patient interactions monthly.
13Funding news
TextYess raises €4m to let AI agents run ecommerce CRM
The Milan company says it serves more than 350 online brands, including Ducati, and will use the seed extension to open in the UK.
14Funding news
Cori Clinical raises $4m seed to speed up clinical trial design
The London software company, founded in 2025, says it already works with two of the five largest contract research organisations and has hired a chief clinical officer from Lindus Health.

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