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Desia, co-founded by Raffaele Terrone, Alessandro Amaro, and Mehmet Öner Y., raises $3.3M to revolutionize financial data analysis. Desia offers an AI-driven system designed to streamline productivity for investment professionals by automating data analysis. This $3.3 million pre-seed funding round was led by Dig Ventures , with participation from 2100 Ventures, Vento by Exor Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Foreword, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Launchbay Capital. A group of angel investors joined the round, including Niccolo Maisto, Founder of FaceIT, Mark Ransford, Senior Advisor at CVC Capital Partners, and Massimo Della Ragione, former Partner at Goldman Sachs. The funding will support Desia's mission to enhance its platform and expand access to its innovative solutions. By utilizing AI, Desia aims to alleviate the burdens of data processing, enabling investment professionals to focus on strategic decision-making and improving overall productivity.

Fundraising Wave of the last 3 months has been extremely interesting. Players like Team8, Ubiquity Ventures, Black Tech Nation Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Dawn Capital over in Europe and others from various regions and sectors and gearing up for our new world we are stepping into. Growth Capital firms like Summit Partners, Thoma Bravo, TPG are extending their reach and establishing their power of influence in areas they haven't tapped into as much before. Deployment of some serious capital into Glean, Overjet, Bugcrowd, Clumio, Figure, Kore.ai in both new and revamped getting a piece of the pie... #investing #vcfunding #privateequity #growthcapital #tech #techcommunity #techinnovation #ai

Thrilled to announce that we’ve just successfully closed Capsa AI’s £1.7 million seed round 🎉 In just 8 months since founding the company, we’ve evolved into a revenue-generating platform, serving top private equity funds managing over $30 billion in assets across the US, UK, and Germany. Our clients are already seeing significant impact, with Capsa AI reducing due diligence time by 20%. In the coming months, we aim to push that figure to 50%! By leveraging AI, we aggregate, structure, and analyse data faster, allowing private equity investors to evaluate more deals, make smarter decisions, and ultimately boost their returns. This seed round was led by Outward VC, a leading UK fintech investor, with additional backing from Cornerstone VC and Antler. We’re also excited to have the support of high-profile angels, including Chris Adelsbach, one of Europe’s top fintech investors, as well as senior professionals from prominent private equity firms and tech unicorns. This milestone marks a major step forward in our mission to revolutionise private equity through AI-powered solutions. We are deeply grateful for the continued trust and support of our customers, employees, and investors. Very excited for what's to come! 🚀 Press coverage in the comments. #AI #PrivateEquity #SeedFunding #CapsaAI

🔥Very proud angel investor to announce .txt’s $11.9M fundraise to help solve AI's fundamental flaw. The two successive rounds were led by Elaia and EQT Ventures with the participation of Seedcamp (Sia Houchangnia) Common Magic (Sarah Drinkwater) Kima Ventures (Alexis Robert) Script Capital STATION F and many amazing angels investors like Roxanne Varza Julien Chaumond Jean-Louis Quéguiner , Pierre Valade, Arnaud Mauduit and many others. 🤖While AIs can string together sentences to emulate human syntax, they’ve yet to learn the syntax of computers… and of the applications that run our world. Without more predictable outputs, LLMs simply can’t be integrated into our systems and businesses. .txt allows LLMs to respond in a way that software understands, making LLMs more reliable for the world to build on Give it a try Congrats Rémi, Daniel Gerlanc and Brandon T. Willard and thanks for the trust 👇TechCrunch article in first comment

5️⃣ 🇪🇺 rounds to pay attention to this week 👇 1️⃣ Palm 🇸🇪🇳🇱 (Fintech / Treasury Management) – Modernizing cash flow management with AI for global businesses. 💰 Raised $6.1M led by Speedinvest, with participation from Upfin.vc, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Greens Ventures. 2️⃣ Capsa AI 🇬🇧 (AI / Private Equity) – Automating due diligence in private equity. 💰 Raised €2M led by Outward VC, Cornerstone VC, and Antler. 3️⃣ Root Signals 🇫🇮🇺🇸 (AI / GenAI Quality Measurement) – Setting new standards in generative AI quality control. 💰 Raised €2.5M led by Angular Ventures, with Business Finland. 4️⃣ Steerlab 🇫🇷 (AI / Sales Automation) – Transforming RFP processes with AI-driven solutions. 💰 Raised $1.9M led by Dreamcraft Ventures, with HEARTFELT_ & STATION F. 5️⃣ StratifAI 🇩🇪 (AI / Precision Oncology) – Advancing cancer care through AI-powered solutions. 💰 Raised €1.5M led by Neulogy Ventures, MultiplexDX International, and Christoph Haarburger, Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Arve Capital

Few business areas go untouched by the influential Arnault family. bit.ly/3yRcq7V Some of Bernard Arnault’s more recent interests are far away from retail or luxury. Turns out, Europe’s richest man has been quietly investing in AI amid a surge of interest in the novel tech. Aglaé Ventures, a tech-focused venture fund owned by the Arnault family office, has invested in five AI companies this year, CNBC reported, citing data from private wealth management platform Fintrx. The funding rounds across the companies were worth $300 million in total, according to Fintrx, although it’s unclear how much of that was contributed by Arnault’s VC. Read more: bit.ly/3yRcq7V

Congrats to Clay for its big news (vc raise). Today's $46 million question: Why would elite VC firms (Sequoia Capital, Meritech Capital, First Round Capital) invest $46m in a "orchestration platform for modern go-to-market teams?" Pull quote from the Bloomberg News story by Katie Roof: "Alex Kurland, general partner at Meritech Capital, said he’s investing in Clay because “the business has really exploded over the past four to six quarters,” thanks to its integration of increasingly powerful AI technology." Integrations like OpenAI, Google Gemini, Harmonic, SmartLead.... If your SaaS company needs an example to follow, see Kareem Amin and co. If you want some help actually building these types of integrations, see me :) Left Hook.

Wenger Vieli advised Progile, an AI company based in Zurich, on all Swiss legal matters concerning their recent funding round. This secured funding of CHF 1.3 million, which will serve to increase the development and distribution of their platform, aiming to improve software reliability. Venture capital / M&A partner Michael Baier (pictured) led Wenger Vieli’s team, which included venture capital / M&A associate Dominique Mattmann and venture capital / M&A associate Kianoush Sadeghi. Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/dR3eCsER #Legalcommunitych #legaladvisor #financinground