Month: August 2025

Swiss startup Work-ID secures €4.2 million to tackle the skills shortage and assure no “candidate is ever overlooked” Zurich-based Work-ID has closed a successful €4.2 million financing round to launch ‘Skills-Manager’, a tool that shows companies which people fit both professionally and personally. Strategic investors include the Swiss Commercial Association

Estonian startup Bisly secures €4.3M to expand smart building automation in Europe Bisly, an Estonian provider of scalable, smart building automation solutions, has raised a €4.3 million funding round to expand Bisly’s operations across Central and Western Europe. The round was led by 2C Ventures with participation from existing investors.

AI agent startup N8n secures offers from Accel and Insight Partners Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/n8n-secures-offers-accel-insight/

Starling to open new North America office amid talk of US IPO Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/starling-canada-office/

Quantexa weighs US public listing in 2026, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/quantexa-weights-public-listing/

GTM engineer: the next big thing in startupland Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/gtm-engineer-the-next-big-thing/

Factorial CEO Jordi Romero: ‘We don’t need to raise capital to grow’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/factorial-ceo-jordi-romero-podcast/

Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward “Big Balls” Coristine Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency

Upwork is buying its way into corporate staffing beyond freelancers The company will merge Bubty and Ascen with its existing enterprise business to form a separate entity later this year. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/upwork-acquires-bubty-and-ascen-with-plans-to-launch-a-standalone-enterprise-business/

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic Though Google hasn’t shared any specific data to back up its conclusions, even if we assume Google’s claims to be true, this doesn’t necessarily mean that AI isn’t having an impact. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/google-denies-ai-search-features-are-killing-website-traffic/