Artiso, Talky Labs and YK-Robotics close AI rounds as Ball Inn adds Shengelia

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Artiso, which builds an AI operating system for fashion teams, raised more than €3 million in a pre-seed round led by Criteria Venture Tech, with Swanlaab Venture Factory, Bynd Venture Capital and angels including Cyberclick co-founder David Tomás and GANNI founder and former CEO Nicolaj Reffstrup. Three former Mango executives started it in 2025, and the money goes to product, hiring and client deployments. Madrid's Talky Labs closed a €1.5 million pre-seed round in September from HelloWorld, Silence VC and Motive Force, plus angels Sebastián Gunningham (Remitly's CEO), Paul Golbaum (Lightbase's CEO and Seedtag's former CTO) and Javier Morenés. Founded about a year ago by Jorge Beamonte and Maximilian Letón, it applies AI to corporate accounting and says it books 86% to 93% of documents with no human involved, across more than 1.8 million documents and over €2 billion of client spending so far. It learns from each firm's past entries and asks an accountant when unsure. "Every company has its own way of doing accounting, and it is almost never written down," Beamonte said. The funds go to product, infrastructure, existing clients and international expansion.

YK-Robotics raised a €1 million seed round co-led by Draper B1 and First Drop, joined by BStartup (Banco Sabadell), Coben Ventures, Elephant Capital and Plug and Play. Joan Ortega Alcaide and Marco Guadagni founded it in Florence in 2020; the parent is now Spanish, based in Barcelona, and owns all of the Italian company. Its YK-Platform coordinates the robot, cameras and machines in a robotic cell, works with brands from Kuka and Fanuc to ABB and Universal Robots, and takes instructions in plain language. The money will set up cells in Spain, starting in Catalonia, the Valencia region, Aragon and the Basque Country, widen its partner network, continue platform development and add staff, mostly in Barcelona.

Amateur basketball company Ball Inn has signed Georgian player Tornike Shengelia as a strategic investor and brand ambassador, in a €1 million round it expects to close next summer, which is one way to get the ambassador in before the paperwork. It has run more than 15 events since 2023, gathered a community of over 8,000 players, fans and creators, signed deals with Nike, Converse, Monster Energy, AND1 and the EuroLeague, and runs the 1V1 Kings format in Spain. Next it plans to test a platform linking players, organisers and courts, and to open Ball inn's Homecourt.