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Belgium-Based Spott Bags $21 Million Series A to Transform Recruitment With AI Leuven, Belgium, 22 September, 2026: Spott, the AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform for recruitment agencies, has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortino. The funding will support international expansion, enterprise functionality and new proactive, agentic AI capabilities. Spott aims to make relationships and decision-making almost the entire role of a recruiter. It estimates that human judgement currently accounts for only 20% of the job, with administration and sourcing consuming…

Code, Data, and Blood: How London-Based Thriva is Debugging Human Health Healthcare Is Moving From Reactive Treatment to Continuous Health Monitoring Healthcare has traditionally focused on identifying problems after symptoms appear. Thriva is part of a growing movement attempting to shift that model toward earlier awareness, regular monitoring, and informed lifestyle decisions. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company provides personalised at-home blood tests designed to help people understand what is happening inside their bodies. Its platform measures health indicators linked to areas such as nutrition, hormones, cholesterol, metabolism, inflammation, and long-term health. Thriva’s approach is built around…

PANTA Launches AI Layer to Transform Index Investing London-Based PANTA brings AI to index investing London, Monday 21 September 2026 – PANTA today announced an advanced AI layer, enabling financial institutions to build, test and iterate indices at unprecedented speed. Much of the $22 trillion index industry still relies on disconnected manual processes and legacy technology, making index design a cumbersome task. PANTA’s latest AI release transforms this: conversational AI features allow users to describe what they want in plain English and get a working index methodology in minutes, while AI-generated commentaries offer insights into how an index performed during…

What is Skydo? The Zero-FX Cross-Border B2B Payment Platform Disrupting Traditional Banking Skydo Is Building a Simpler Way for Indian Businesses to Receive International Payments For Indian freelancers, exporters, agencies, and online sellers, receiving international payments can involve more than simply getting paid. Foreign exchange markups, intermediary bank fees, documentation charges, and settlement delays can quietly reduce the value of every invoice. Bengaluru-based Skydo is addressing this problem with a cross-border payments platform designed to make international business payments more transparent and predictable. Founded in 2022 by Srivatsan Sridhar and Movin Jain, Skydo operates under the Reserve Bank of India’s…

Top 10 AI Tools for Product Managers How AI Tools Are Supporting Product Management Artificial intelligence is becoming part of product management workflows, helping teams handle research, documentation, customer feedback, analytics, and product development. Product managers can use AI tools to organize information, identify patterns, create product documents, test ideas, and understand how users interact with digital products. However, each platform addresses different requirements. Some focus on customer research, while others support product analytics, project execution, prototyping, or user engagement. The following ten tools represent different applications of AI across the product management lifecycle. 10 AI Tools for Product Managers…

Logistics startup Logibot raises €1.4 million to make humanlike robots smart Logibot, the software platform that adds an intelligent layer to humanlike robots in logistics, has raised €1.4 million. The round is led by BeamBerlin, the Berlin-based fund specialised in logistics SaaS. The Belgian startup will use the capital to accelerate the rollout of its first robots at clients and to position itself in a European market worth €13 billion a year. European warehouses are struggling to find staff. Sorting and distribution centres have trouble filling physically demanding roles, often at locations far from the labour market. Temp staff cost…

Peaky Raises €1.1 Million to Transform Financial Planning With AI Peaky, the Ghent-based AI platform for financial planning, has raised €1.1 million in a seed round led by JK Invest. Imec.istart and a group of Belgian angels are also joining in. The startup will use the capital to accelerate its commercial growth and further build out the platform, so finance teams see changes in the business before they show up in the numbers. “We’re building the infrastructure to scale without surprises,” say the founders. A business changes every day. Finance is often the last to know what’s moving, and the…

ARC X1: Can India Build the Next Big Handheld Gaming Platform? ARC X1: India’s Bet on a New Era of Handheld Gaming India has one of the world’s largest gaming communities, but dedicated gaming hardware remains relatively inaccessible to many players. ARC is targeting that gap with the ARC X1, a portable gaming system designed to bring together hardware, software, and gaming experiences in a single platform. Founded by Jobin Joseph and Kaustubh K. Jadhav, the company is developing its own hardware and software stack rather than relying entirely on a conventional white-label device. The X1 is built around ARM…

Velocity Wants to Turn Stablecoins Into Corporate Financial Infrastructure The Problem: Why Corporate Money Still Moves Slowly For all the sophistication of modern commerce, the infrastructure moving money between businesses remains surprisingly fragmented. A company operating across several countries may have to manage multiple bank accounts, currencies, payment providers, liquidity pools, foreign exchange relationships, and settlement schedules, with money frequently moving through systems that were designed around banking hours and geographic boundaries. Cross-border settlement can introduce delays, FX costs, prefunding requirements, and trapped liquidity, forcing finance teams to keep capital positioned in advance simply because they cannot be certain when…

Keep Converting: AI-Powered E-Commerce Conversion Optimization Platform The AI Advantage: How Keep Converting Optimizes the Customer Journey The traditional e-commerce website is built around a fundamental compromise: every visitor is usually shown roughly the same product page. A shopper arriving after searching for a highly specific problem, another clicking a TikTok advertisement, and another following an AI-generated product recommendation may all see the same images, copy, reviews, and layout, despite having very different reasons for visiting the website. Keep Converting is designed to challenge that model by using AI to create a different version of the shopping experience for individual…