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Let’s make some noise four (😉) them! Exein, Shakers, Smartness and Ukio all made it into the Sifted 100: Southern Europe Leaderboard ranking! The Southern European Tech Scene has never felt this lively, but these companies are livelier than most; ranking among...

‘The bar is being raised ten times over’ Our own Simone Riva answered Alice Chamber’s questions in the Technology Magazine, giving his perspective on ‘How AI is Rewriting the VC Playbook for Software Investing’ It’s never been faster or cheaper to build software. The...

Critical infrastructure organisations running complex, high-risk field operations need jobs done right, first time, every time. But too often frontline work is taken up by time-consuming admin, and delayed reporting means the sites that pose the most risk don’t receive...

Obsession with solving the problem. That’s what matters. Our own Alison Imbert discussed ‘The new Seed filter: what investors look for beyond the demo,’ with Cate Lawrence from Tech.eu. With AI having made the creation of polished demos, sleek interfaces and convincing...

We had a sixth sense about them… Papernest, Pennylane, Joko, Agicap, Epsor, and Mooncard all made it into the Fintech 100 of 2026! Last year saw a fragile economy and a developing regulatory environment that fundamentally questioned the...

Every large product team today is battling an obvious, decade-long problem: designer-developer handoff. Because developers and designers have been living in their codebase and Figma silos, product development is a very inefficient process, slowed down by bureaucracy, processes, documentation, etc.

Google, Amazon, Apple, and co have large internal AI resources and have the ability to ship camera-based products with great AI features. But there are many companies outside of Big Tech building great products, often at great price points, that struggle to add accurate and efficient AI ...

While people can send money across borders, they are often excluded from spending tools, savings, and credit systems. Kredete is here to tackle this problem, and was built by immigrants for immigrants who understand the everyday challenges of building credit, sending... (1/11)

AI is moving fast. Infrastructure isn’t. AI agents are increasingly handling real-world tasks, but most services are still designed for human users, not machines. The result? Fragile workarounds and broken workflows. @alpic-ai.bsky.social bridges this gap. (1/10)

Love is in the air – and so is our February newsletter! 💌 Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve gathered some exciting news from the past month to share some portfolio love! 💗 From a new chapter for AB Tasty to almost $400M raised in total, here’s a short recap... (1/4)

👑 Promotion season has arrived 👑 We’re thrilled to announce three promotions across three of our fund strategies at Partech! 💫 - Pauline Lissavalid is promoted to Principal on our Impact Team - Louis Dessal is promoted to Senior Associate on our Growth Team (1/3)

More deals. More funding. Still not equal. In African tech, gender disparities are still one of the most persistent structural challenges, even as funding activity rebounded in 2025. Our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report shows a more nuanced picture than the... (1/5)

Our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report includes, among other deep dives, a sector breakdown, highlighting where momentum is building across the ecosystem. So, let’s take a closer look... In 2025, African tech sectors remained dominated by Fintech and Cleantech,... (1/8)

Have you read our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report yet? Today we’ll take a look at country-specific funding trends across both equity and debt deals. Africa’s tech capital continues to concentrate, but equity and debt are doing so in different ways. 🔀 (1/8)

Major inflection point for digital experience optimization! 🚀 Our portfolio company AB Tasty, a leading experimentation and personalization platform, today announced that they entered into a definitive agreement with VWO, the global experience and conversion... (1/7)

New year, new newsletter! 🗓️ 2026 has arrived, and you know what that means...our January newsletter is here! 💥 Packed with exciting updates since the festive season, this newsletter features 1 portfolio addition, 2 impressive follow-on rounds, and much more! (1/4)

AI modelling, product research, and academic studies all hinge on one thing most platforms can’t guarantee: real, trustworthy human data. 👥 This is where @joinprolific.bsky.social comes in, the platform-model tech company filling a critical gap in AI and research by providing fast,... (1/11)

At Partech Growth, everything we do, from investing to operating and hands-on support, ladders up to the same goal: helping founders scale enduring, category-defining companies. 🪜 That’s exactly what our own Omri Benayoun explored in his conversation on the EUVC podcast,... (1/5)

🎧 Partech’s 2025 Podcast Picks: Part 2 We’re back with more conversations we bookmarked this year, focused on growth, product, go-to-market, and leadership at scale: - The secrets behind growth, with Jonathan Badoux (Ornikar, Icebreaker Podcast) - The story of... (1/4)

🎧 Partech’s 2025 Podcast Picks: Part 1 As the year slows down, we’re keeping the signal going. 🔊 Here are 5 podcast episodes that stood out to us this year: grounded conversations on deeptech, AI, fintech, and building at scale across markets: - A crash course in... (1/4)

How to rethink seed in an unpredictable market? Our Partner Alison Imbert was recently featured on The Startups Magazine and shared how seed investing is evolving and what it really means to take smarter risks in today’s environment. From backing conviction over... (1/4)

📢 2025 over and out! 📢 From exciting fundraising rounds, notable awards and recognitions to a whole repertoire of new companies, let’s take a look at the highlights of 2025! 🥳 New Chapters This year, we celebrated the full exit of 4 portfolio companies:... (1/9)

The agri-food sector remains one of the least digitized industries, still characterised by administrative chaos, fragmented tools, and limited integration between machines, sensors, and data sources. Farmers often rely on dozens of disconnected apps and manual... (1/12)

Craving something to listen to this festive season other than carols? 🎶 Our own Keji Mustapha was featured on the latest episode of the KLIMB podcast in conversation with Michael Saifoudine to discuss brand, trust, and VC, as well as how she is rewriting... (1/4)

🌱 ESG in action across our portfolio 🌱 This year’s Sustainability Report features two case studies highlighting founders who embed sustainability into the core of their business models: First up, we have Billogram from our Growth fund, the cloud-first customer... (1/7)

Just in time for giving season, we’ve got a newsletter-shaped gift under the tree waiting to be unwrapped! 🎄 1 huge exit, 2 portfolio additions, a green report, and many more portfolio news...Santa has certainly been generous this year! (1/5)

For years, Egypt's real estate market was fragmented and opaque, leaving buyers to navigate a maze of commission-driven brokers and developers focusing more on sales than service. 😵💫 Nawy was founded in 2019 to solve this problem. (1/11)

We’ve all experienced the headache of managing contracts and subscriptions: long procedures, unclear offers, expenses that keep piling up. 😖 That’s where Papernest swoops in to save the day and make it all simple, handling: - Moving: they take care of... (1/8)

The clocks may have gone one hour back, but we’re taking a trip one month back into October in our latest newsletter to see what this year’s trick-or-trick bag had in store. 🎃 With 2 awards and 9 ranking features, this spooky season has also certainly been an awards season! 🏆(1/4)

Manufacturers need to measure and optimize product impact in real time, but fragmented data across design, procurement, and compliance systems makes this impossible. But Makersite is making the impossible possible. 💥 (1/11)

We’ve got something new for your ears! 👀 On last week’s episode of the Made IT podcast, founder and CEO of Exein, Gianni Cuozzo, discusses “Building the future of Cybersecurity” live at Italian Tech Week. As the world’s largest embedded runtime security provider,... (1/5)

And the Oscar goes to... 🏆 Two of our portfolio companies were named winners of the 2025 Allstars Awards by GP Bullhound! - @joinprolific.bsky.social, the software-enabled marketplace that connects researchers with vetted participants, was named winner... (1/4)

Procurement has long been held back by outdated, fragmented tools that waste time and add complexity. No one likes using them. In comes Mercanis. This AI-powered procurement suite brings procurement into the digital AI age with a state-of-the-art user experience,... (1/9)

Got the shivers from the colder autumn mornings? 🥶 Here’s a newsletter full of events that will warm your heart! ❤️‍🔥 From three new additions to the Partech portfolio to a major acquisition, let’s take a sneak peak of all that September had in store: (1/3)

Three weeks ago, the fintech company Kredete announced their $22M Series A funding. In an exclusive interview with AfridigestHQ, CEO @theaadedewe.bsky.social shares his story before Kredete, from getting rejected by 17 banks when moving to America to processing over $1B in the company. (1/4)