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 as a follow-on investor. Existing and new angel investors also participated. “AI systems today don’t fail because they The post German AI infrastructure startup Cognee lands €7.5 million to scale enterprise-grade memory technology appeared first on EU-Startups.

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. The round was led by Lightspeed, with EQT Ventures, General Catalyst, and S16VC doubling down. The round comes The post Enterprise finance platform Stacks raises €19 million to streamline reporting and month-end workflows appeared first on EU-Startups.

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 Fund and Alstin Capital, with participation from seed+speed Ventures and Foundry Ventures. The rounds also attracted investments The post Stockholm-based Agaton secures €8.4 million to turn customer conversations into revenue insights appeared first on EU-Startups.

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) global trading industry through AI. The round was led by European VC firm Atomico, with prior investors, including Cherry Ventures, who doubled down. The post “From Germany, for the world” – Plato secures €12.2 million to automate sales and ERP workflows in distribution appeared first on EU-Startups.

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 Market Report, entry-level positions in European tech have seen a 73% decrease in hiring The post Why European startups are sleepwalking into a talent crisis appeared first on EU-Startups.

This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Davide Dattoli, Founder and Executive Chairman of Talent Garden, one of Europe’s leading digital innovation platforms, offering a network of coworking campuses, a digital skills academy, and event spaces designed for tech professionals, startups, and companies. Launched in 2011 as a coworking experiment in Italy, The post The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Davide Dattoli, Founder and Executive Chairman of Talent Garden appeared first on EU-Startups.