AI Startups Draw Cross-Border Funding Across Health, HR, Tax and Infrastructure

A wave of new financing rounds spanning the US, Europe and Iceland shows investors backing AI-driven platforms in healthcare, HR, tax compliance and cloud infrastructure.

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Sep 24, 2026 3 min read 479

Several technology startups on both sides of the Atlantic have announced fresh funding rounds, most centred on artificial intelligence applied to specialised business workflows.

Healthcare

Basalt Health raised $20 million in a Series A round led by returning investor New Enterprise Associates, according to Ventureburn. The financing brings the company's total capital raised to roughly $24.5 million. Basalt's platform reads post-acute care referrals arriving via fax, portals or electronic medical record integrations, evaluates them against facility-specific clinical criteria, and supports admissions, benefits checks and prior authorisations. The company says about 14 million patients enter post-acute care each year, with placement still largely reliant on manual processes. Founder and chief executive Ben Hackett spent nearly a decade at Accolade.

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Tax and wealth software

Numeral raised $100 million in Series C funding to expand its AI sales tax compliance platform, in a round led by Insight Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator and Uncork. The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2023 by chief executive Sam Ross and chief technology officer Matt DuVall, has now raised $157 million in total. Its platform combines a deterministic tax engine with automation to handle nexus monitoring, registrations, calculations, filings and remittance, and supports VAT and GST compliance across more than 90 countries.

French software provider Wealthcome secured a €15 million ($17 million) Series B round led by Breega, with continued backing from BlackFin Capital Partners. The round follows a €7 million raise led by BlackFin in March 2025. Wealthcome builds WealthPro, a platform for wealth management professionals covering client data, portfolios, documents and regulatory compliance. The company now equips about 800 firms and more than 6,000 active users, up from just over 300 client firms and 2,500 users at its previous round, with headcount around 65.

European infrastructure and HR

Naples-based Clastix raised €2.9 million in its first external funding round, a Seed round led by CDP Venture Capital Sgr with participation from Mistral and Vertis SGR through its Vertis Venture 6 Digital Sud fund, which is partly financed by the European Union's Next-Generation EU programme. Founded in 2020 by engineers Adriano Pezzuto and Dario Tranchitella, Clastix builds infrastructure software to reduce the operational overhead of running Kubernetes at scale, building on its open-source Capsule and Kamaji projects.

Reykjavík-based 50skills raised €5.3 million ($6 million) to expand hiring and continue investing in its platform, including AI agents that work alongside HR teams. The round was co-led by Frumtak Ventures, Swiss Post Ventures, Avant and US family office DRD Investments. Founded in 2017, the company describes itself as building infrastructure for people and AI agents to run processes together, combining deterministic workflows, AI agents and human oversight.