Good news from around Europe
TrueLayer lands eBay “strategic investment” eBay has made a “strategic investment” in UK open banking fintech TrueLayer, the UK fintech announced today. eBay has made the investment through its VC arm, eBay Ventures, joining existing TrueLayer investors Stripe, Tiger Global, Tencent and Temasek. TrueLayer did not provide details about the size
German AI infrastructure startup Cognee lands €7.5 million to scale enterprise-grade memory technology Cognee, a Berlin-based AI infrastructure company, today announced a €7.5 million funding round to accelerate the development of its structured memory layer for AI systems and agents. The round was led by Pebblebed, with participation from 42CAP
Enterprise finance platform Stacks raises €19 million to streamline reporting and month-end workflows Stacks, a British agentic platform for enterprise finance, has raised a €19 million ($23 million) Series A – introducing their new reporting and analysis suite, at the core of which sits their new offering; AI Flux Analysis.
Stockholm-based Agaton secures €8.4 million to turn customer conversations into revenue insights Emerging from stealth, Agaton, a Swedish agentic AI platform identifying and actioning sales opportunities based on customer conversations, today announced it has raised €8.4 million ($10 million) in total Seed funding. The Seed round was co-led by Inception
“From Germany, for the world” – Plato secures €12.2 million to automate sales and ERP workflows in distribution Berlin’s Plato, an AI-based operating system for wholesale distributors, today announced the successful closing of its €12.2 million ($14.5 million) Seed funding round in order to transform the €2.5 trillion ($3 trillion)
Why European startups are sleepwalking into a talent crisis European tech has a hiring problem that nobody wants to talk about. While founders obsess over landing senior engineers and AI specialists, they are quietly abandoning the pipeline that produces them. The numbers are stark. According to Ravio’s 2025 Tech Job
Judith Dada, general partner at Visionaries Club: ‘I’m deeply troubled by what lies ahead for Europe’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/judith-dada-podcast
Quantum Systems founder sold stake in ARX Robotics prior to launch of similar product Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/quantum-systems-founder-sold-stake-arx-robotics
‘We are at risk’: Mistral CEO warns against US dominance in AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-ceo-ai-impact-summit
‘We have some work to do’: Nasdaq Stockholm’s president on losing Klarna to New York Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nasdaq-interview