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The Founder Gazette
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Wordsmith AI adds $14m to a Series B it closed in June

The Edinburgh legal AI firm has bolted a $14m extension onto a round announced two months ago, with Intact Private Capital and FT Ventures joining the register.

40 · 9 August 2026
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Ex-principal took hundreds of meetings to raise $63m

Adeel Khan had no Stanford degree, no Google badge and no business plan. He says he had to make MagicSchool AI's user numbers impossible to argue with instead.

38 · 9 August 2026