Ares Intelligence Raises €2.6M to Scale AI Transformation
Ares Intelligence raised €2.6M led by Creandum and Lakestar to help businesses identify and implement AI transformation strategies.
The big picture: Ares Intelligence, a London-based startup, has secured €2.6 million in funding for its evidence-based platform designed to guide businesses through AI transformation.
Why it matters:
- Untapped Potential: While AI coding is advancing, the broader opportunity for AI across business functions remains largely unaddressed, with many enterprises unsure where to begin their adoption journey.
- Bottom-Up Insights: Ares Intelligence flips traditional top-down AI strategy by gathering insights directly from employees closest to daily operations, identifying manual workarounds and unapproved AI tool usage.
- Efficiency & Speed: The platform offers a rapid, weeks-long process for identifying AI opportunities and drafting recommendations, significantly faster than traditional consulting engagements that often take months.
How it works:
- AI Interviewer: Ares Intelligence deploys an AI interviewer that conducts confidential, voice-based conversations with employees in over 70 languages to capture granular operational knowledge.
- Evidence-Led Roadmap: Within weeks, leadership receives a prioritized, evidence-led roadmap that pinpoints where AI can save time and money, based on employee insights.
- Secure & Flexible Deployment: The platform is GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant, offering anonymization controls and flexible deployment options on a customer’s own cloud or Ares’ infrastructure in the EU or US.
The catch: The market for enterprise AI adoption tools is becoming increasingly crowded, with many solutions vying to simplify AI integration. Ares Intelligence’s differentiation hinges on its unique bottom-up, voice-based data collection method and its ability to translate qualitative insights into actionable, quantitative roadmaps, which must consistently deliver tangible ROI to stand out against more conventional consulting approaches and off-the-shelf AI solutions.
Key Facts
- Company: Ares Intelligence
- Amount: €2.6M
- Investors: Creandum and Lakestar (co-lead), angels connected to Google DeepMind
- Founders: Matt Falconer, Alfie Ranstead
- Announced: 2026-10-10
- Sector: Enterprise AI Transformation
- Headquarters: London, UK
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