SOUS secures €4M to develop AI growth tools for restaurants

Amsterdam-basedSOUS, an AI-powered growth platform for independent food and beveragebusinesses, has raised €4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Seed +Speed Ventures, with participation fro…

Sequoia-backed Edra raises $30M Series A to turn enterprise data into self-improving AI agents

Today, startup Edra announced $30 million Series A led by Sequoia, which included investment from 8VC and A*z. Edra builds AI agents that learn how a business operates, then automate the work. Its…

Pi Labs leads $7M round in VerbaFlo for AI real estate platform

VerbaFlo,a conversational AI platform for real estate, has raised $7 million in a seedround led by Pi Labs, with participation from Haatch, Navigate Ventures, OldCollege Capital, the University of Edi…

Noru raises €560K to develop an agentic compliance platform

Stockholm-based Noru, a startup building an AI-nativeplatform for regulatory compliance, has raised €560,000 (SEK6 million) in apre-seed round led by Ampli Ventures. The round also included participat…

Choice secures $7.1M Series A to expand its restaurant operating system across Europe

Choice, a Prague-founded all-in-one SaaS and QR ordering platform for restaurants, has raised $7.1 million in Series A funding. To date, the company has raised a total of $11.6 million. Founded five y…

This Norwegian startup is automating one of business’s most frustrating admin tasks

In another life, when I ran an NGO, one of my more arduous tasks was applying for tenders. While tenders can create huge financial opportunitiesffor startups, SMEs and NGOs, they are complex and incre…

Tower secures €5.5M to support data engineers in the AI era

Berlin-basedTower has raised €5.5 million across pre-seed and seed funding rounds todevelop its approach to data engineering in the AI era. DIG Ventures led thepre-seed round, while Speedinvest led th…

Anthropic’s Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $…

Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement

AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Investors spill what they aren’t looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies

TechCrunch spoke with VCs to learn what investors aren’t looking for in AI SaaS startups anymore.