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Lime bought the transcript layer

Lime Technologies, a Swedish CRM listed in Stockholm since 1990, bought 51 per cent of Supercompany, the Oslo startup behind the Trale meeting notetaker. The interesting part is what it bought: not an assistant, but the data its CRM never captured — what is actually said in meetings.

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Kabilio sells the agent to the accountant

Kabilio, a Barcelona startup, raised €10 million this week for an AI agent that does the junior work in accounting firms. The unusual part is who gets the keys: clients join only through their accountant, who sets how much the agent may do alone. And one of the investors is the Spanish state.

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The TV OS that pays the TV maker

Titan OS, a Barcelona company, raised $46 million yesterday — partly as a BlackRock credit facility. It now runs on every 2026 Philips television, where Google TV used to be. Philips did not switch for the features. It switched for the ad revenue.

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The grant writer the grant-givers funded

Granter, a Lisbon startup, sells an AI agent that finds, writes and manages public grant applications. This week it raised €1.6 million — led by a fund managed by Portugal's state development bank. The map-maker is financed by the territory.

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Roleo watches the job market while you work

Roleo has raised €2.9 million to take its personal career agent across Europe. The interesting part is not the funding: it is a job service built for people who are not job hunting.

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FoxIDs closed the repo but not the docs

FoxIDs, the Danish identity platform in our directory, still tells you its source code is published and invites you to contribute to the open-source project. The GitHub repository it links to is a 404. The docs didn't get the memo.

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Mistral's open weights exclude the host

Mistral released the trillion-parameter Large 4 weights on 29 October under a licence it invented: a modified MIT that lets you do almost anything except sell inference on it. Read the carve-outs. They are Mistral's business model written as a licence.

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