Doers Radar: September 22–28

UK fintech Tide raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation to launch AI-powered accounting and lending products for small businesses and expand abroad.

UK AI data-centre startup Nscale closed a record $1.1B Series B, claimed to be Europe’s largest ever, to roll out sovereign AI compute across the continent.

Greek VC Big Pi Ventures announced a €130M growth fund to back local scaleups and drive the country’s ‘brain gain’ of returning entrepreneurs.

Abu Dhabi’s Presight, part of G42, and Saudi-UAE VC Shorooq launched a $100M global AI fund to back startups in AI, smart cities, energy, and fintech with GPU and data access.

Tunisia’s ANAVA Fund of Funds committed $4M to Qatar’s Rasmal Innovation Fund I to channel venture capital into Tunisian and regional startups.

PayPal pledged $100M for the Middle East and Africa via minority investments, acquisitions and venture initiatives out of its UAE hub to scale digital commerce.

Emergent raised $23M Series A led by Lightspeed to let non-developers build production apps through AI agents, and is scaling out of San Francisco.

Juicebox, an AI recruiting startup, closed a $30M Series A from Sequoia to use LLMs for talent search and make hiring a chat-style workflow.

Legal-tech startup Superpanel secured $5.3M in seed funding to automate client intake for law firms.