Etiq AI, the female-founded AI-startup based in London, UK, today announced it has raised £750k in seed funding led by GapMinder VC, following previous grant funding of £1million from InnovateUK, and will be used to scale its newly launched “Data Science Copilot”, a platform designed to radically accelerate debugging and testing for machine learning models.
With data science platform revenues expected to exceed $320 billion by 2026, tools that improve developer productivity are drawing increasing interest. Etiq joins a growing field of AI infrastructure startups, but differentiates by focusing on post-training robustness and fairness.
Founded by Iris Anson (CEO) and Raluca Crisan (CTO), Etiq AI has been building on their rich heritage in ML and AI testing by really digging into what makes debugging code and productionising pipelines so hard for Data Scientists. This led to the development and launch of Etiq's Data Science Copilot in March 2025. Built from the ground up to answer the question "how can we take the time taken to debug ML and AI pipelines from weeks to minutes".
Etiq's core features provide deep visibility into the logical flow of AI and ML code, recommend the right tests to make pipelines robust and enable RCA agents that can navigate through code to identify where issues arise and suggest how to fix them. The startup is offering a 30-day free trial for Data Scientists and organisations looking to strengthen their AI capabilities.
The funding will be used to develop product features that further automate testing and debugging whilst providing further capabilities in the LLM space. In addition Etiq will be expanding the team and furthering commercial marketing through 2025.
