Another Friday, another SuperFounders Newsletter that helps you catch up with the most significant startup news from East Europe.
Pipedrive, a CRM platform for sales and marketing teams, has signed an agreement to receive a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners, an Austin, Texas-based VC firm –which puts the company’s valuation at about $1.5 billion. With this, the Estonian-born startup reaches unicorn status.
Read more: tech.eu
Speedinvest Launches Second Specialist Network Effects Fund
Speedinvest, a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm, launched its second specialist Networks Effects fund with €33M.
Read more: finsmes.com
Slovenian startup TAIA secured €1.2 million additional seed funding to expand with its AI-enabled translation platform
The innovative translation platform TAIA, has raised a further €1.2 million in seed funding from venture capital fund Fil Rouge Capital, to expand into the United Kingdom, across Europe and to the USA with its AI-enabled software which bridges the gap between translation agencies and Google Translate.
Read more: startuparound.com
Rendity: Real estate platform raises 1.8 million euros for the growth phase
They usually hit the headlines when they raise money for real estate projects – but this time they’ve been fundraising for their own company. Lukas Müller, Paul Brezina and Tobias Leodolter, who jointly founded Rendity in 2015, today announced a financing round of 1.8 million euros.
Read more: trendtopics.at (DE)
Meetfox: Vitosha Venture Partners Launches an Accelerator to Help Bulgarian Startups Think Big and Go Global
Vitosha Venture Partners, one of the new early-stage VCs in Bulgaria, is officially open for business and aims to put €25.9M in 126 companies by the end of 2023. The first investments are to be announced soon but the firm has already opened applications for a rolling acceleration program that will start in December.
Read more: trendingtopics.eu