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Here is your weekly dose of European startup news, fresh insights and unique opportunities. Are you ready? :)

?? EIT Digital Champions 2025: Are you a European deep tech scaleup ready to take the next step? Apply now for the chance to join the prestigious EIT Digital Champions, gain access to the 12-month EIT Digital Growth Services Program, and connect with top investors. Applications are open until December 2!

?? Deep Tech Innovators:?On October 28-30, Warsaw will host the 3rd Deep Tech CEE Summit & Challenge?with a €1 million prize pool! Don’t miss this chance to secure funding, network with investors, and showcase your solutions.

?? AI Skepticism: Are you having trouble getting your team to use AI? That's more common than you might think. Anastasia Georgievskaya, CEO of Haut.AI, shares practical tips on how to address AI skepticism, foster team-wide adoption, and unlock AI’s potential for your business.

?? This Week in AI & Automation:

• Paris-based regtech Dotfile?just raised €6 million to automate customer onboarding and comply with Anti-Money Laundering regulations
• Paris-based Phacet secured €4 million for their customised AI application platform for SMEs
• London-based Desia raised €2.9 million to transform the investment professional’s work stack
• Warsaw-based Pergamin closed a €2.6 million funding round to help build a global contract automation platform

?? GreenTech Funding: Paris-based La Solive raised €4 million to launch new energy renovation training programmes. Germany-based BIOVOX closed €2.2 million to accelerate development of sustainable healthcare plastics.

?? EU-Startups Podcast:?In episode 88 we were joined by Tony Jamous, the CEO and Co-founder of Oyster, a unicorn and hyper-growth company that empowers businesses to hire, pay, and care for team members globally.

?? Speaker Applications: We have officially opened the speaker applications for next year's EU-Startups Summit. If you are a scale-up CEO, a unicorn founder, a high-profile investor (etc.) who would like to share some insights on stage, you can now apply here!

?? Venture Scale? We just asked the investors among our 110k LinkedIn followers if a startup that aims to reach €3 million revenues per year withing 6 years should consider raising venture capital at all? Here are the results.

That's all we had to share with you this week. Have a nice weekend!

Your EU-Startups Team