Nebuly raises $21M to tell companies whether their AI agents are actually paying off

Nebuly said on Nov. 12, 2026, it raised a $21 million Series A led by Planven to help enterprises measure the business value of their AI agents.

Every company bought AI agents this year; almost none can tell you what they got for the money. Nebuly is selling the receipt, which is useful right up until the number is uncomfortable. The real sign of value will be whether CFOs start cutting agent budgets based on what it shows, not just adding slides.

Nebuly said it raised a $21 million Series A led by Planven. A Series A is the first large private round after a seed, the smaller check that comes earlier. Exor Ventures, Tenacity Capital, TGVG Capital, and Fastweb+Vodafone, through Founders Factory, also took part, along with returning investors and angels. An angel is a person investing their own money. CDP Venture Capital SGR supported the round through its Artificial Intelligence Fund and its Digital Transition Fund. The company says that Digital Transition Fund is backed by the European Union's NextGenerationEU programme. The announcement is dated Nov. 12, 2026, and datelined New York and Turin. The amount and the names are Nebuly's, on its blog. Tech.eu reported the round the same day and described the CDP support as the Digital Transition Fund.

The product watches how AI agents are used across a company and puts employee tools and customer-facing assistants in one view. An agent, here, is software that takes a series of steps, not only a chat box that answers once. For the tools employees use, Nebuly says it measures time saved, capacity freed up, and new tasks teams could not take on before. It also shows which teams use the tools, whether the work is high-value or routine, and where training would raise the return. For assistants that face customers, it tracks revenue the AI influenced, the risk a customer will leave, and chances to sell them something more. Churn is the industry word for that leaving. Leadership and finance can see the assumptions behind the math and change them. Those lines are the company's.

Nebuly connects to custom tools and to assistants built on Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot. It can run on-premises or in a customer's private cloud, so the company's data does not have to be sent out to someone else's model. On-premises means the software sits in the customer's own building. A private cloud is a slice of computing reserved for that customer. Those lines are the company's.

Francesco Signorato, co-founder and chief executive, on the company blog: "Companies are now making decisions about hiring and headcount based on assumptions about AI productivity, not evidence. Decisions of that weight need real data." Tech.eu carried the same sentences. The quotation is his.

Nebuly says it will use the round to expand the teams that sell and support the product in the United States and Europe, and to keep building the platform. The blog says the company is headquartered in Turin and New York. The announcement does not print a valuation or a revenue figure.

The picture is three members of the Nebuly team standing side by side in a bright industrial-style office. Two wear t-shirts and the person in the middle wears a dark hoodie. The credit is Nebuly (via Tech.eu).

In plain terms, a startup based in Turin and New York raised $21 million, led by Planven, for software that tries to turn AI-agent use into a number a finance chief can argue with: hours saved, revenue touched, and customers who might leave. The hiring-and-headcount line is the chief executive's. The round does not come with a valuation.