Airspeed

Airspeed is a London AI company that raised £14.9m ($20m) in a Series A on 4 June 2026, led by DN Capital. The company builds autonomous AI agents designed to execute sales-team workflows end-to-end: prospecting, outreach sequencing, follow-up and pipeline management. It was founded by Adam Liska and Devang Agrawal, both former research scientists at Google DeepMind, giving it an unusually strong research-Science pedigree for a commercial sales-automation company.

The "autonomous agents for sales" category is crowded in the US but relatively nascent in Europe. Airspeed's DeepMind provenance matters commercially: enterprise buyers in regulated and large-corporate segments are cautious about AI vendors and place significant weight on the credibility of the founding team's technical background. A Google DeepMind founding team carries name recognition that shortens the enterprise sales cycle in a way a non-pedigreed founding team cannot replicate easily.

The round reflects a broader pattern across UK AI investment in mid-2026: significant capital flowing into AI-agent infrastructure companies (alongside Wordsmith AI and Apoha in the same week), particularly those with research-credentialed founding teams that can credibly pitch to enterprise buyers sceptical of shallow AI wrappers. DN Capital is a European growth fund with a portfolio spanning B2B software, and its lead position at Series A suggests conviction in Airspeed's enterprise traction.