Exclusive: Peec rival Promptwatch raises €6m seed round
THE SO WHAT
Another €6m into Promptwatch underscores that evals, monitoring, and prompt governance are becoming their own product category, not a sidecar feature. Enterprise AI buyers should start treating LLM observability as a line-item decision—who owns it, how it integrates with existing APM, and what data it will see.
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