Marc Griffith

Summary Pivot has raised €34.4M to develop an AI operating system for procurement that provides real-time visibility into committed spend, automates critical workflows, and integrates with dozens of ERPs, serving enterprise clients like DoorDash and Flix. Key takeaways Pivot closed a €34.4M Series B round to expand agentic AI in procurement and improve spend visibility before closing. Pivot's product centralizes sourcing, approvals, purchasing, invoicing, and reporting to preserve ERP...

Summary Viktor embeds an AI agent directly into Slack and Microsoft Teams to operate as a true digital employee: it studies business processes, designs automations, maintains context across thousands of documents, and achieved a significant revenue run rate in 10 weeks, with customers and real-use cases across operations, marketing, and engineering. Key takeaways An agent integrated in Slack/Teams can turn messages into concrete deliverables, reducing execution time and tool fragmentation....

Summary Lexroom, Italian LegalTech startup, closes a €42.9 million Series B promoting a data-first strategy for AI in civil-law countries; figures, security certifications and expansion plans in Spain and Germany. Key takeaways Lexroom has raised €42.9M in Series B and argues that legal AI works when built from the data layer up, not only with generic LLMs. The platform has over 6 million verified legal sources, serves more than 8,000 law firms and corporate teams, and adopts zero-training...