Etiq AI, a London, UK-based female-founded AI startup, has raised €900,000 in seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by GapMinder VC, a venture capital firm investing in tech startups from Romania and Eastern Europe, particularly Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, at the Seed or Late Seed stages. With a hands-on approach, it supports companies with strategic guidance, scaling, financial discipline, and governance.
Etiq AI Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to develop further product features for automated testing and debugging, enhance capabilities in the large language model (LLM) space, expand the team, and boost commercial marketing efforts.
About Etiq AI
Founded in 2019 by Iris Anson and Raluca Crisan, Etiq AI provides machine learning (ML) testing and debugging tools designed to streamline the development and deployment of AI models. Its flagship product, the Data Science Copilot, accelerates debugging and testing for machine learning models. It provides deep visibility into AI and ML code, recommends tests to improve pipeline robustness, and enables root cause analysis (RCA) to identify and resolve issues.
Funding Details
Company: Etiq AI Limited
Raised: €0.9M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: April 2025
Lead Investor: GapMinder VC
Additional Investors:
Company Website: https://www.etiq.ai/
Software Category: AI Debugging and Testing
Source: https://www.etiq.ai/posts/etiq-ai-announce-eu900-000-seed-funding-from-gapminder-vc