London-based Arrakis, which makes AI agents for industrial companies, emerges from stealth with a $7.5M seed and a $30M Series A at a $140M post-money valuation (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/22/arrakis-a-startup-betting-ais-biggest-payoff-is-in-industrial-sectors-not-office-work-emerges-from-stealth-with-38-million-in-venture-funding/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260722/i28.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260722/p28#a260722p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jeremy Kahn / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/22/arrakis-a-startup-betting-ais-biggest-payoff-is-in-industrial-sectors-not-office-work-emerges-from-stealth-with-38-million-in-venture-funding/">London-based Arrakis, which makes AI agents for industrial companies, emerges from stealth with a $7.5M seed and a $30M Series A at a $140M post-money valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Arrakis, a seven-month old London- and Paris-based startup building what it calls an AI &ldquo;operating system&rdquo; for industrial companies &hellip; </p>