Weekly Digest: curated tech news & food for thought

Good morning!

Welcome to our weekly conversation starter.

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Portfolio News

• Amsimcel raises €4.8M through the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Learn more.

• Join DRUID AI product launch on October 25, to discover its new and improved conversational business applications. Register here for the online show.

Active Investment Opportunities

🏦 Citizen is a UK-based FinTech company raising €4 million Series A round to redefine payments. Explore this opportunity.

Startup resources pick

Founders Most Have Qualities. Character (Part 1)

Between investments, philosophy and a good glass of wine, Ionut Patrahau looks at the qualities a founder must have, as it is widely known that these can determine the success of a startup. Dive in and read his opinion.

UiPath’s Startup Tribe

The Unicorn’s legacy remains. Being part of a fast-growing startup changes people. Besides fostering professional evolution, these environments have a way of also sparking the competitive entrepreneurial spirit, joined by global aspirations. See here what UiPath community is about.

European SaaS funding down 42% in Q3

The SaaS sector is undergoing a ‘reset’: on the public side, revenue multiples went down from 17x a year ago to 6x today. On the private side, funding is down 42% in Q3 with similar trends observed in the US and Europe. What does this mean for European and Israeli SaaS companies? Find the answers in the latest report published by VC firm Accel.

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