AI and Space Startups Draw Funding Across US and Europe

Larridin raises $30 million

Larridin, headquartered in South San Francisco, raised $30 million in a Series A round to grow its enterprise AI measurement platform, which helps companies gauge the financial impact of artificial intelligence. The round brings its total funding to $47 million. Pelion Ventures led the round, with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Gradient Ventures taking part, alongside new backers including GFT, W23, Thayer, DG Daiwa Ventures, Alumni Ventures and Cougar Capital.

The platform connects AI adoption, productivity and financial data across organisations to help leaders evaluate where tools deliver returns and where spending can be reduced. Larridin said it has tracked more than two billion AI sessions, that the average gain in measurable team output was 47%, and that customers saw median AI spending optimisation of $2.4 million in their first year. The funding will go toward product development and expanding the team.

Marble Cognition raises €3.35 million

Munich-based Marble Cognition raised €3.35 million ($3.75 million) in a pre-Seed round co-led by Heartcore and Seedcamp. Participating angels included a board member of Datadog, a founder of Personio, and executives from McKinsey, Mistral AI and Lovable. The company, founded in late 2025 by Felix Rösner and Christophe Schmit, builds AI coworkers that learn how work is carried out inside a company before automating white-collar tasks. The funding will support inference scaling, engineering hires in Munich and a US launch.

Reshma Sohoni, General Partner at Seedcamp, said the firm has a long tradition of backing founders who change how people work, citing UiPath and Synthesia, and that Marble fills the gap of mapping out how work gets done, as reported by EU-Startups.