£20.8M
The funding round was led by Mercia Ventures to accelerate product development and market reach.
"Employee benefits have never been more important — and never harder for global employers to manage"
Atomico manages funds supporting early-stage and growth-stage European technology companies.
The funding round was led by Mercia Ventures to accelerate product development and market reach.
"Employee benefits have never been more important — and never harder for global employers to manage"
The Series A round was led by Atomico with participation from Index Ventures, Norrsken VC and Daphni.
"Invention is how we solve humanity’s biggest challenges, yet the systems that protect those ideas are decades out of date. AI will redefine how global organisations innovate over the next five years, turning IP from a cost centre into a growth driver. The companies that adopt Ankar now will shape the future of innovation."
The round was led by Atomico with backing from LocalGlobe, Blackbird, and other investors to support team expansion and content creation.

Eurazeo led the Series C financing, which will accelerate product development and international expansion.
"This new round allows us to bring forward transformational capabilities that our customers are asking for. By combining full-stack engineering with zero customer complexity, we are building advanced agentic systems powered by the industry’s richest set of real-world logistics data. This will help warehouses and supply chains shift from systems of record to true systems of action."
The financing round was led by Insight Partners with participation from a16z Speedrun, Atomico, Begin Capital, and Zero Prime.
"As more and more models launch, devs can have tens or even hundreds of endpoints to integrate with and maintain. Runware solves this problem by delivering access to all the models, at the best price, with the best inference time. We see model providers now moving to our platform and offering their APIs from our inference pod, because we can deliver 90% lower inference cost than any cloud provider."