Dublin-based AI company Better Futures has secured €600,000 in funding from private angel investors and Enterprise Ireland under its High Potential Start-Up programme, according to University College Dublin, bringing total investment raised to €1.1 million as the firm accelerates development of its engineering documentation automation platform.

Headquartered at NovaUCD, Better Futures develops EVA™, a governed AI platform designed to automate complex engineering documentation workflows and produce audit-ready outputs at scale. The announcement coincides with the launch of the platform's next generation, building on deployments with early customers including manufacturers ABB and Bausch + Lomb.

The funding will support expansion of Better Futures' product and go-to-market teams in Dublin, with customer adoption targeted across regulated sectors including energy, life sciences, aerospace and advanced manufacturing.

Founder and CEO Anthony Mc Loughlin said: "In highly regulated industries, engineers can spend more time on documentation than engineering itself. The key challenge is trust. Teams need audit-ready outputs they can trust, approve and reuse at scale. That is why we built EVA™. It is not another chatbot and not another agent. It is a governed AI platform designed to bring trusted automation to complex engineering documentation workflows."

Amanda Ward, head of digital technologies at Enterprise Ireland, said Better Futures represents a new generation of AI-first Irish founders "applying AI to a genuine commercial challenge in highly regulated industries, where AI adoption must be low-risk, informed and commercially grounded."

Mc Loughlin said the company is now focused on expanding EVA™ adoption and building towards a larger VC-led investment round to establish leadership in governed AI automation of engineering documentation.

Discover the full details of Better Futures' funding and its implications for AI adoption in regulated engineering sectors.