Year: 2025

With 300k add-to-cart events, Paris-based Dialog secures €3.7 million round to scale its AI shopping agent French startup Dialog announced a €3.7 million ($4.4 million) Seed round to create AI agents trained on brand data, capable of selling both on e-commerce websites and through other AI agents such as ChatGPT,

Rookoo, out of Belgium, raises €900k to help the global event industry escape administrative chaos Ghent-based Rookoo, which builds digital colleagues for events and hospitality teams, has raised €900k in a new funding round in order to expand its platform, develop new modules for price optimisation and capacity management, and

Antwerp’s LIFEPOWR secures €5.65 million to advance virtual-power-plant technology Belgian EnergyTech innovator LIFEPOWR has secured €5.65 million in growth capital to fuel its next stage of expansion and bring intelligent energy flexibility to more homes and businesses across Europe. The round was led by Noshaq and SPDG, followed by ROM

Meet the 17 venture scouts Sequoia has hunting for deals in Europe Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sequoia-scout-network/

The European founders making defence angel bets Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/european-founders-angel-investing-defence/

What’s keeping chief compliance officers up at night Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/chief-compliance-officers/

UK’s biggest backer of VC funds eyes more defence deals Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/uks-biggest-backer-of-vc-funds-eyes-more-defence-deals/

Don’t tax me, I’m a CEO! Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/exit-tax-uk-france-startup-life-entrepreneurs/

Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/leaked-documents-shed-light-into-how-much-openai-pays-microsoft/

Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI VC Andy Konwinski argues that the U.S. is losing its AI research dominance to China. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/databricks-co-founder-argues-us-must-go-open-source-to-beat-china-in-ai/