AI Score raises $5.4m seed round led by Fuel Ventures
The London AI governance company states the raise in US dollars in its own announcement and has published no sterling or euro equivalent.
AI Score, a London company selling software that tracks how businesses use generative and agentic AI, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding led by Fuel Ventures, according to an announcement published on the company’s own site and dated London, 3 September 2026.
The round drew continued backing from GALLOS Technologies, the venture studio that incubated the business, and investment from Alan Morgan, co-founder of MMC Ventures, and Mo El Husseiny, managing partner of Ventura Capital. It follows a $1 million pre-seed round in November 2025.
The figure
AI Score gives the number in US dollars only. It publishes no sterling or euro equivalent, so any pound or euro version of the raise is a currency conversion rather than a company figure, made at a rate and on a date the company has not stated. This report uses the company’s own number.
What the product does
The company describes AI Score as a real-time governance platform that tracks and controls generative and agentic AI use across a business. Its own description is of a layer that gives organisations continuous visibility across their AI estate, covering the models, agents, assistants and applications in use, the connections and permissions between them, and the data, people and workflows around them.
The seed money is earmarked for platform development and go-to-market, with the company saying a key focus is managing agentic AI as agents are introduced across an enterprise.
“AI operates at a scale and level of automation that traditional governance simply wasn’t built for,” said Alex Harland, co-founder and chief executive. “Organisations need to be able to move quickly and capture the opportunity AI presents, without losing visibility or control.”
Mark Pearson, founder of Fuel Ventures, said in the same announcement that the founders “have combined deep expertise with impressive early commercial momentum”.
Who is behind it
Harland was previously part of the founding team at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. Co-founder and chief operating officer Benita Tibb is a former City lawyer. The company names a third co-founder, the lawyer Jonathan Kewley, on its senior advisory team.
Its advisers include Sir Jeremy Fleming, former director of GCHQ; Colin Bell, chair of Starling Bank and former chief executive of HSBC Bank Europe; and Nick Trim, formerly co-founder, chief revenue officer and chief operating officer of Darktrace.
What Companies House shows
AISCORE LIMITED is company number 16381026, incorporated on 11 April 2025 with a share capital of £1 and registered at 86-90 Paul Street, London.
Jonathan Christopher Kewley and Joshua Burch were appointed directors at incorporation. Harland and Tibb were both appointed directors on 7 January 2026, nine months later.
Gallos Technologies Limited is recorded as a person with significant control, notified with effect from 29 July 2025. Kewley ceased to be a person with significant control on 1 April 2026.
The register also carries the paperwork of an earlier share issue: a statement of capital following an allotment made on 17 April 2026, taking nominal capital to £153.46, and resolutions filed on 15 May 2026 covering an allotment of securities, the removal of pre-emption rights and the adoption of a new 65-page set of articles.
As at 6 September, no allotment matching the September seed round had been filed. Companies have a month from an allotment to file the return, so that is not unusual.
The claims that are not on the record
The company says it grew revenue 6.7 times in the first six months of 2026, and that its customers include a Magic Circle law firm, a FTSE 250 company, a UK fintech and global consumer brands. It names none of those customers, and the revenue multiple is a company statement rather than an audited figure.
Nothing on the public record confirms it. AISCORE LIMITED extended its first accounting period to 30 September 2026, so no accounts have been filed and no trading figures are published.
What it means for UK founders
A $5.4 million seed ten months after a $1 million pre-seed is a fast step up, and the structure behind it is worth more than the headline. The filings show the venture-studio model in plain sight: the studio incorporates and holds control, operating founders are appointed later, and each round arrives with the same three documents, an allotment, a disapplication of pre-emption rights and new articles. Our guide to the pre-seed and seed stages sets out what each round is normally expected to prove.
Governance tooling is also one of the few AI categories where UK buyers in regulated sectors are the natural first customers, a different funding profile from model-building. Our piece on how UK AI startups get funded covers the routes available.