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439 British startup Portia AI bags €5 million to help developers build AI agents in production with better human oversight

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David Cendon Garcia @ EU-Startups · 04/16/2025 10:27 EDT

British startup Portia AI bags €5 million to help developers build AI agents in production with better human oversight

London-based Portia AI, an open-source AI agents SDK, announced today a €5.1 million funding round to give developers the tools to build production-grade AI agents they can predict, control and authenticate. The round was led by General Catalyst with support from First Minute Capital and Stem AI. “AI engineers with deep expertise painstakingly navigate their ...

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