{
  "id": 15864595,
  "title": "AI platform Pigment raises $250m in Series E funding round",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/ai-platform-pigment-raises-250m-in-series-e-funding-round",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T08:16:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Silicon Republic",
    "slug": "silicon-republic",
    "url": "https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/ai-platform-pigment-raises-series-e-funding-round-france-paris"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "France-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Pigment has secured $250 million in a Series E funding round, led by Scaleup Europe Fund and managed by EQT. This brings the company's valuation to $2.3 billion. Pigment, founded in 2019, provides an AI-powered business planning and performance management platform that enables organizations to scale, with customers including Unilever, Klarna, Siemens, and DirecTV. The funding will accelerate Pigment's autonomous planning capabilities and expand the engineering team, with a focus on the company's proprietary compute engine, Graphite, and the AI agents that operate on it. The company's co-founders, Eléonore Crespo and Romain Niccoli, stated that enterprise planning will undergo significant changes in the coming years, with legacy tools being left behind. Pigment aims to make autonomous planning a reality for every enterprise, with AI agents handling planning workflows from start to finish. EQT's managing director and Scaleup Europe Fund's Shannee Braun also praised Pigment, highlighting how the company has built a global category leader from Paris and backing a team that has created a single platform connecting finance, sales, and workforce planning.",
  "summary": "The round was led by Scaleup Europe Fund and the money raised will go towards accelerating Pigment’s autonomous planning capabilities. Read more: AI platform Pigment raises $250m in Series E funding round",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}