Donna raises $4.8M to cut admin work and unlock real insights from field sales teams

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Ghent-based Donna, a proactive AI assistantfor field sales teams, has raised $4.8 million in new funding to accelerateinternational expansion and cement its position in field sales enablement. Theroun...

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Shopify is down, disrupting Cyber Monday shopping

Kris Holt / engadget - Here’s hoping the retailers offering tasty Cyber Monday deals that caught your eye aren’t having trouble with Shopify. The ecommerce platform is experiencing some issues. According to a support page, some merchants were having trouble logging into the Sho…

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OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.

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Kovant wants to become the nerve center of enterprise agentic AI operations after pre-seed funding

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Swedish agentic operations startup Kovant, officially known as Kovan AB, today is launching its platform globally after closing on $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by J12 Ventures. The round also saw participation from Ampli, Green Ventures an…

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Google Says Hackers Stole Data From Over 200 Companies Following Gainsight Breach

msmash / slashdot - Google confirmed in a statement Friday that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack. TechCrunch reports: On Thursday, Salesforce disclosed a breach of "certain customers' Salesforce data…

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Logistica OS Raises €1.5M To Build An AI Operating System For Supply Chains

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Logistica OS, a Berlin-based startup developing AI agents for supply chain operations, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by NAP, with participation from Daphni and angel investors Javier de la Fuente, Nono Konopka, Daniel Khac…

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Adobe to buy Semrush for $1.9 billion, sending marketing platform's shares up 70%

cnbc - Adobe said Semrush's search engine and marketing tools can help brands engage and grow customers, especially in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Berlin’s Integral boosts total funding to €12 million and strengthens capabilities with cleverlohn acquisition

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Integral, a Berlin-based AI-powered services company innovating accounting, taxation, and payroll for SMEs, today announced the acquisition of cleverlohn, a digital payroll and HR provider in Germany. Additionally, the company announced new funding from G…

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Guidoio Secures €3.5M To Expand Italy’s First Fully Digital Driving School

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Milan-based Guidoio, Italy’s first fully digital driving school, has raised €3.5 million in a seed round led by European VC fund 360 Capital, with participation from Azimut Libera Impresa SGR S.p.A. Founded in 2023 by Lorenzo Mannari and Giuseppe Cavallar…

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Cronvall Raises €3.9M To Modernize Industrial Procurement In Europe

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Cronvall, a Finnish tech company modernizing industrial procurement, has raised €3.9 million from Greencode Ventures, Stephen Industries, Innovestor, and leading industrial family offices. Cronvall’s platform brings transparency, efficiency, and better da…

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Vendep Capital’s €80M AI SaaS fund: ambitious growth, but diversity takes a backseat?

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Vendep Capital, a Finnish venture capital firm specialising in early-stage B2B SaaS investments, has closed its fourth fund,…

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B2B sales lose 65% of time to admin – Sweden’s Spiich Labs raises €600k to automate it

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Stockholm’s Spiich Labs, a startup developing an agent-first AI assistant, today announced a €600k pre-Seed funding round to eliminate 8+ hours of weekly administrative work. The round was led by Ampli Ventures, with backing from founders of Lovable, Tand…

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PitchBook brings generative AI to private markets with Navigator and ChatGPT integration

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Private capital market intelligence company PitchBook Data Inc. today announced the upcoming launch of PitchBook Navigator, a generative artificial intelligence tool that delivers private capital market insights through natural-language prompts directly w…

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dotega raises €1.3M to expand proptech for homeowner self-management of shared properties

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Stuttgart-basedproptech startup dotega has raised €1.3 million in a pre-seed round fromHigh-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and experienced proptech investors, including thefounders of Casavi.InGermany, abou...

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Aspirity Partners secures €875 million for debut fund, one of Europe’s largest new private equity launches of 2025

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Aspirity Partners, a London-based private equity firm focused on Financial and Enterprise Technology Services, has announced the final close of its inaugural fund, Aspirity Partners I (AP I), at over €875 million. The fundraise reached its hard cap within…

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Vigilant AI.ai Secures £585K Pre-seed Funding To Launch Compliant “AI Teammates”

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Derby-based Vigilant AI.ai, which develops AI teammates for regulated industries, has raised £585,000 in a pre-seed round led by Haatch. The funding comes from three Haatch-managed sources: Haatch, the East Midlands Combined County Authority, and the Brit…

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Dutch startup Source.ag raises €15.2 million to scale AI software powering 300 greenhouses across 18 countries

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Source.ag, the Amsterdam-based developer of AI software for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), today announced the successful close of its Series B funding round, raising €15.2 million. The investment was led by Astanor, with strategic participatio…

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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria steps down, replaced by Cloudflare executive CJ Desai

cnbc - Dev Ittycheria, who took MongoDB public in 2017, is leaving the CEO role but will stay on the company's board.

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