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AI Score raises €4.6m seed to police companies' AI agents

The London company sells a control layer for businesses putting agentic AI into their workflows. Fuel Ventures led the round.

By The Gazette desk7 September 2026195

AI Score, a UK company, has raised €4.6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Fuel Ventures, with existing backers also taking part.

The figure is given as $5.4 million in dollars. The company is based in London.

The product is a platform for adopting and managing generative and agentic AI. Its stated purpose is to let companies introduce AI agents into their workflows without losing control of them.

The money is earmarked for product development, expanding operations and further work on that platform, according to the announcement.

The names of the other investors have not been published, and the round's valuation has not been disclosed.

For founders, the signal is in what was funded rather than the size of the cheque. Agents that act inside a business create a supervision problem, and investors are now paying for the layer that watches them rather than the layer that does the work.

That is a market position worth noting if you sell AI tooling to companies with a compliance function. The buyer's first question is increasingly who is accountable when the agent acts.

Customer numbers, revenue and headcount have not been made public.