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Congratulations to Channable, which has just acquired Producthero, Europe’s leading premium Google CSS partner!  This strategic move brings together two powerful and complementary platforms. Channable’s multichannel feed management and marketplace integration now join forces with Producthero’s advanced shopping optimization tools, unlocking new superpowers for over 15,000 global customers, including IKEA, Vodafone, and Samsung. What does this mean? ⚡ Streamlined multichannel selling & advertising  🌍 Scalable, cost-efficient campaigns across 21 European markets  🤖 A shared focus on AI innovation for performance & automation  📍330 team members spread across 5 offices in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Berlin, Aarhus & New York "By combining Channable's multichannel technology with Producthero’s advertising tools, we're building a stronger platform that helps retailers and agencies grow faster, with less effort and lower costs", shared Rob van Nuenen, co-founder & CEO of Channable.  Congratulations to both parties on this exciting new joint venture! We can’t wait to see what you achieve 🚀 

📢 Huge milestone for Alan!  The French unicorn has just won one of the most coveted public sector health contracts - providing coverage for over 130,000 agents at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and up to 300,000 people including dependents and retirees. This is huge: Alan is not only challenging legacy insurers, but proving that innovation, user experience, and ambition can disrupt even the most entrenched sectors. After securing public sector wins with the Prime Minister’s office, National Assembly, and several key ministries, Alan continues to deliver on its bold vision: empowering everyone to live a longer, healthier life - at scale. Talk about A-lan-dmark moment! Congratulations to Jean-Charles & Charles, and the entire Alan team! 🐻👏 Read more in the comments 👇 

One week ago today, we closed the chapter on an unforgettable week in Rome for our 2025 Founders’ Summits. 🇮🇹 This year, we set out to do something different. Something smaller. More intentional. Designed for deeper connection. We split the summit in two: one for early-stage founders, and another for those navigating the complexities of later-stage growth.    In both settings, founders found what they rarely do elsewhere: a room full of people who truly understand what they’re going through. Through coach-led sessions, founder 1:1s, small-group discussions, and founder circles, the agenda sparked not just insight, but honesty.    Fireside chats and plenaries offered inspiration. Workshops became spaces for real-time problem-solving. But the magic often happened in the in-between moments.  Evening apéros were just as rich in scaling tactics as the day’s workshops. The gala dinner brought out the formalwear, but the conversations stayed just as real. And that morning ice bath? It might have been exactly what some founders needed to find the calm before their next breakthrough. A huge thank you to the founders who attended, the speakers who shared their wisdom, the Partechies who supported on the ground, and everyone else who made the 2025 Summits truly special. Here’s to the next one! 🌟 #PartechFoundersSummit #PartechFoundersAssemble

Education should be accessible for all. That’s the core mission behind Studocu, a platform that's been helping students ace their exams since 2010. 📝 Founded in the Netherlands, Studocu now covers more than 120,000 institutions across 190 countries and has helped more than 1 BILLION students since its inception. The key to its success? Its hyper-local approach. The documents are organized in a structured, searchable platform tied directly to each student's specific institution and course. No more digging through irrelevant materials - it's like having a study buddy who actually attended your exact class! 🎓 Students can access each other's notes primarily for free, with a small portion requiring premium access. Students can unlock this premium content either by uploading their own materials (sharing is caring!) or taking out a subscription. 🤝 This clever approach has allowed Studocu to build the largest digital academic library in the world, with over 50 million documents. 📖 They've been busy building the future of learning by leveraging that massive user-generated content library to create a world-class AI education product. AI-powered homework help, content summaries, quizzes, and audio lessons are being integrated into the experience, so students can move seamlessly from passive reading to active learning. 🤖 Studocu has also been deepening collaborative learning features. Shared studylists, real-time group quizzes, and contributor profiles are all in the works to activate the peer layer that already powers its content network. 👯♂️ App-solutely amazing news! The latest version of the AI homework help lives in Studocu's Android/iOS app. Students are raving about its responsive and tailored answers to even the toughest homework questions. 📱 Want to be part of this education revolution? Studocu is currently hiring across tech, ops, and several other positions. If you've ever wanted to help shape the future of education, this could be your chance! Head to their website to learn more (link in the comments).🌟

We’ve been named one of the top DACH & CEE investors by Sifted in their latest ranking! ⚡ The recognition follows the release of the Sifted 100: DACH & CEE 2025 Leaderboard, which ranks the 100 fastest-growing startups in the region based on revenue growth. The investor ranking is based on the number of portfolio companies featured on the leaderboard, followed by the average two-year revenue CAGR of those companies. We placed 8th out of 119 investors, with four deals in Q1 across the region - a 100% increase compared to Q1 2024. Our recent investments include: 🚀 The Exploration Company (🇩🇪) – building reusable space capsules to democratize space exploration by making it affordable, accessible, and sustainable. 🥜 KoRo (🇩🇪) – redefining food industry norms with high-quality, innovative products ranging from nut butters and dried fruit to clean-label snacks and functional foods. 🚜 xFarm Technologies (🇨🇭) – accelerating the digital transformation of agriculture with tools that support farm management and environmental sustainability. 👩🏫 CoachHub - The digital coaching platform (🇩🇪) – helping organizations build personalized, scalable coaching programs with digital and AI-powered coaching. We’re proud to support some of the most ambitious founders in the DACH & CEE region - and across Europe and our global geographies. Thanks for the feature, Sifted, and congratulations to all the other investors included! Full ranking in the comments 🔗

We’re proud to co-lead AURA ’s €13.5M Series B round with the Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (AfricInvest Group) 🚨 Founded in 2017 in South Africa, AURA is a life-saving tech platform on a mission to make emergency response services more affordable, accessible, and reliable - for everyone. Through smart routing and auto-dispatch technology, AURA connects people in crisis to the nearest vetted private security or medical responder, in seconds. Already trusted across South Africa and the UK, AURA is now expanding into the US - and building a global “clearing house” to dispatch help across borders, seamlessly and instantly.  Since its inception, AURA has achieved some impressive milestones: 📲 1.2M people protected  🏘  200K properties secured  💉 7,500+ lives saved From a bold idea in Johannesburg to a global platform reshaping how the world accesses emergency help, AURA is just getting started. Congratulations to Warren Myers, Ryan Green, Adam Pantanowitz and the whole team at AURA - we're in awe 😉 of what you’ve all achieved. We are thrilled to support this exceptional team as they scale their technology, impact, and vision - bringing fast, frictionless emergency response to millions more around the world.  Cc Cyril Collon | Tidjane Deme | Ogugua Osakwe-Adegbite | Tito Cookey-Gam | Lewam Kefela | Matthieu Marchand | Marie Benrubi | Sabrine Chahrour | Augustine Ikwuegbuenyi, ACA, FMVA®.

You want to buy the perfect sofa for your living room - but where do you even start? 🤯 You’re about to hit ‘pay now’ - but wait. A few questions cross your mind… Do you have the best price already or should you check a few websites more? Any cash back from your bank? Quick check - nope. Got a discount code? You Google around, try a few… nothing works. And just like that, you’ve lost both time and savings. 😵💫 Let’s face it: shopping shouldn’t be this hard. Enter Joko - here to save your day and your wallet. 💚 In 2018, three friends - Alexandre Hollocou, Nicolas Salat-Baroux, and Xavier Starkloff - realized something simple but powerful: the shopping experience is broken. You should not have to spend hours searching the internet, browsing countless websites that are all different, figuring out where to find information, comparing prices, etc. Their solution? One place to find exactly what you need, make smarter decisions, and save money - thanks to a treasure chest of features like cash back, buy now, pay later, automatic coupons, price drop alerts, carbon footprint tracking, and more. Talk about a one-stop shop! 🛒 It’s clearly working: over 4 million savvy shoppers in France already trust Joko to save money at more than 7,000 merchants. But they didn't stop at just helping users save money. Over the years, they've expanded their features from simple cash back to comprehensive price tracking and even carbon footprint analysis. 🌍 Perhaps most impressive of all? They've reached profitability in their core market. Ca-ching! 🎯 Now, Joko’s going global - with a sharp focus on the U.S. market, and two co-founders already leading operations from New York. 🗽 And they’re not just crossing borders - they’re entering the AI-powered era of shopping, building a universal product catalog that aggregates real-time offers and pairs them with an AI assistant to help users find the perfect product based on personal preferences. Finally, find that sofa! 🛋 🏆 Their hard work is being recognized! In 2024, Joko was named one of LinkedIn's Top 10 Startups – a reflection of both their explosive growth and stellar team culture. And they're not slowing down! In 2025, they're planning to double their headcount, hiring across all teams to support their international expansion and next phase of scale. Want to join the journey - or just start saving smarter? Check out their website (🔗 in comments). 💥

It is out! Viva Technology has unveiled its Top 100 Rising European Startups 2025 - a list spotlighting the early-stage companies shaping the future of tech across 22 sectors and 13 countries! 🌍 We’re happy to have partnered with Accel, Eurazeo, HV Capital, and Northzone to select Europe’s next-gen innovators – who are gaining real traction and breaking new ground in various sectors, from AI to FinTech, Cybersecurity to HealthTech! 🚀 We’re especially proud to see 13 Partech portfolio companies featured this year, representing 5 countries and a broad range of sectors. Their progress is a testament to the impact they’re already making across Europe and beyond. 💡 Here’s the Partech line-up: 🇫🇷 France: LA VIE™, Orus, Pennylane 🇩🇪 Germany: CoachHub - The digital coaching platform, Enter, Retraced, The Exploration Company 🇮🇹 Italy: Exein 🇳🇱 Netherlands: TestGorilla 🇪🇸 Spain: Shakers, Ukio 🇬🇧 UK: Maze, V7 👏 Huge congratulations to all the companies selected for this well-deserved recognition! 📅 See you at VivaTech 2025, June 11–14 in Paris. 👉 Check out the link in the comments to explore the full list. #Top100RisingEuropeanStartups #startups2025 #EUStartups #VivaTech

Our latest newsletter is here! 🌟 It’s been an a-may-zing month at Partech and we’ve got plenty of exciting updates to share. From record-breaking rounds to major recognition across the portfolio, spring is definitely bringing the heat. 🔥 Here’s a taste of what’s inside: 📈 VSORA, Merama, Djamo, Money Fellows, and Pennylane raised a whopping $335M combined – a big win for the Partech family this spring! 🏆 Brevo was crowned the #1 CRM since the start of 2025 – a huge win and a testament to their unstoppable momentum. 🤖 Prolific launched its AI User Experience Leaderboard, helping shape the future of user-centric AI development. 🇪🇺 We were named one of Europe’s most active investors in Q1 2025 by Sifted And that’s not all – the newsletter also features an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek at what life inside a VC firm really looks like. 👀 📬 Check it out now – link is in the comments below! 👇

Welcome to the Partech family, Shakers! 👋 We’re delighted to lead Shakers’s €14M Series A round, alongside Kfund, Brighteye Ventures, Athos Partners and Wayra. 💼 The world of work is evolving fast - but traditional work models are failing to keep up. Demand for highly specialized talent is soaring, yet companies remain stuck with static teams that can’t pivot as quickly as their business needs do. Shakers is stepping up to the challenge. Based in Madrid, Shakers is a workforce orchestration platform that connects businesses with top tech freelancers (freeworkers, as Shakers calls them) - enabling them to go from idea to fully assembled, ready-to-work team in minutes. 🤝 In just 4 years, they’ve truly shaken up the tech talent landscape. The platform now serves over 450 companies, including Microsoft, Inditex and Telefónica, and has grown revenue more than 6x in the past year alone. So, what’s next? This new round will fuel Shakers’ expansion across Europe, including: 🚀 Doubling their team 📈 Growing their client base 🤖 Building out AI-powered capabilities to help businesses & freelancers work even smarter By 2027, they aim to have powered over 10,000 hybrid projects, setting a new standard for how companies scale. 🗣️ Simone Riva Violetta, Senior Principal at Partech, commented: “At Partech, we believe that while AI is reshaping the way we work, exceptional talent will always be at the heart of the future of work. From our very first conversation, it was clear the Shakers team is building something special - a fast, intuitive platform tailored to the flexible workforce of tomorrow. They’re redefining how companies find, hire, and collaborate with top talent. We're proud to back this visionary team and are excited to support them as they scale across Spain, Europe, and beyond.” Congrats to Héctor Mata, Nico de Luis, Adrian de Pedro, Jaime Castillo Parages and the entire Shakers team on this major milestone. The freeworkers era has begun! Find out more in the Tech.eu article in the comments! CC Philippe Collombel | Reza Malekzadeh | Simone Riva Violetta | Magda Posluszny | Julia Najman | Vivien Bovard