Pigment, an AI business planning and performance management platform, announced a $250 million Series E round at a $2.3 billion valuation. The round is led by the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT, with participation from WIL (World Innovation Lab), existing investors Greenoaks, ICONIQ, IVP and Meritech, and a planned investment from NVIDIA. The company said its annual recurring revenue (ARR) surpassed $100 million earlier this year, again doubling year over year, and that 85% of new metrics on its platform are now created by an AI agent. The new capital will fund R&D and engineering expansion around its Graphite engine as it moves toward autonomous planning.
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