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Choice, a Prague-founded all-in-one SaaS and QR ordering platform for restaurants, has raised $7.1 million in Series A funding.

To date, the company has raised a total of $11.6 million.

Founded five years ago, Choice began as a platform enabling restaurants to communicate with customers online. Since then, it has evolved into a comprehensive operating system for independent and multi-location restaurants. 

Choice positions itself as an alternative to standalone restaurant tech solutions, which often are focused on separate features like QR payments, marketplace, reservations, or online ordering.

Unlike single-function providers, Choice offers a fully integrated platform:

• Website builder with a custom domain connection
• Commission-free takeaway and delivery ordering
• QR menus, QR payments, and QR ordering
• Reservation management integrated with Google
• Marketplace integrations (Wolt, Bolt Food, Foodora, Glovo, Uber Eats, Just Eat Takeaway)
• Loyalty programs across all channels
• POS/EPOS integrations without requiring system replacement
• Everything operates from one admin panel, under one subscription, consolidating fragmented customer data into a single system.

Today, Choice serves more than 30,000 registered restaurants, including over 7,000 paying customers across nine active markets in Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Romania).

The company currently generates over 1.5 million monthly orders — representing approximately €35 million in monthly gross merchandise value (GMV). Choice has doubled year-over-year and is targeting €500 million in monthly turnover within the next three to four years.

With fresh capital, Choice plans to expand rapidly across Europe. The next markets include Portugal — where Alea Capital will support scaling efforts across Southern Europe — followed by Spain and Italy. France, Germany, and the Netherlands are planned for subsequent phases.

“We understand the fragmentation of the European restaurant market and the need for localisation,” said Alex Ilyash, Founder and CEO of Choice.

“But we see this as a competitive advantage. We know how to scale in Europe. By combining strong local sales teams, efficient capital deployment from our CEE base, and AI-driven product innovation, we are confident we can win market by market.”

Alea Capital Partners led the funding, with participation from Reflex Capital, Smartlink, and J&T Ventures. 

According to  Rui Escaleira, Co-Founder of Alea Capital Partners, the  Choice app is addressing one of the most pressing challenges facing restaurants today: operating efficiently in a highly dynamic market with structurally tight margins. 

“By giving restaurants greater control over digital ordering, additional revenue generation, and a more balanced relationship with delivery platforms, Choice App helps operators protect profitability while improving the end-customer experience.” 

The new investment will primarily fund product development — particularly AI-integrated modules — as well as sales and marketing expansion in target countries. Choice plans to hire local sales and support teams in each new market to ensure a strong on-the-ground presence and customer success.

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CDP Venture Capital leads the round for the Milan-based company behind Alo, an AI operating layer already deployed in finance, manufacturing, and pharma. Alomana, a Milan-based AI startup building an operating layer for enterprise automation, has raised €4 million in a seed round led by CDP Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I, ServiceTech fund. […]

WhiteBridge AI, the Vilnius-based people-search and digital identity platform, has raised a $3 million seed round, equivalent to roughly €2.6 million, led by FIRSTPICK VC. The round also includes participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, BADideas.fund, Nectolabs, Plug and Play, and a group of angel investors. The company says the capital will fund expansion of […]

Italian startup Alomana has raised €4 million to accelerate the development of Alo, the AI operating layer for enterprise.

Enterprises need more than AI that can answer when prompted; they need AI that can run and execute their workflows.

Legacy systems were not built for AI. Organisations spend months testing and stitching together tools, integrations, and prototypes, only to end up with expensive, fragile experiments that don’t deliver at scale.

Alo introduces a new paradigm: personalised AI at enterprise scale with a universal intelligence that works across any application, delivers business outcomes, and transforms AI from assistance into repeatable execution.

Over the past year, Alo Autonomous Engine has been deployed across finance, manufacturing, and pharma, powering mission-critical tasks such as risk and security flows, financial controls, operational automation, and advanced data analysis workflows, translating AI adoption into real EBITDA gains.  

According to Giuseppe Ettorre, co-founder and CEO of Alomana: 

“Enterprises waste enormous energy on prototypes instead of outcomes.“We abstract away the integration and customisation complexity.

Companies can run personalised AI across their systems and deliver production-level value immediately. Alo is building a future where autonomous AI won’t be a tool that companies use. It will be something they run on.”

Alo works across data, documents, applications, and code: from performing advanced data analysis on millions of database tables, to generating full-stack applications and custom AI agents for enterprise teams in minutes. It brings the power of entire AI teams into a single operational layer for organisations.

The company’s team brings experience from Bloomberg, the European Central Bank, BCG, and NASA, combining deep technical expertise with the rigour required in highly regulated environments.

The financing round, led by CDP Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I – ServiceTech fund, will fund the expansion of Alo’s enterprise AI, strengthen its autonomy capabilities, and support large-scale enterprise deployments worldwide. Other investors in this round include Italia Venture II – Fondo Imprese Sud, Founders Factory, Kairos Ventures ESG One, Gresilent Holdings, Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), and Club degli Investitori.

According to Alessandro Scortecci, Director of Direct Investments at CDP Venture Capital, Alomana is redefining the future of Enterprise AI agents. 

“The team’s talent, ambition, and ability to execute are simply exceptional. Its technology is a perfect fit for the Service sector – our fund’s core focus - delivering real value in a fraction of the time compared to its competitors. 

Our verticalisation in the service industry and particular focus on financial services make us particularly pleased to support Alomana in the ongoing innovation and transformation of the financial service sector in Italy and Europe.”      

WhiteBridge AI, a team developing an AI-powered people search and research engine, has raised a $3M seed round. The round was led by FIRSTPICK VC, with participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, BADideas.fund, Nectolabs, Plug and Play, and several angel investors.

Founded in 2024 by Tomas Martūnas, Irmantas Motiejūnas, Justinas Barauskas, and Paulius Taraškevičius, WhiteBridge was built around a simple observation: while large amounts of information about people already exist online, it is often fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to verify. As digital content becomes easier to manipulate, determining what is accurate and trustworthy is becoming increasingly challenging.

WhiteBridge addresses this challenge by turning scattered public signals into clear, decision-ready insights, helping teams move from “trust me” to “verify it.” The platform aims to strengthen professional and personal relationships through actionable insights while enabling individuals to maintain greater visibility and control over their digital footprint.

The company initially launched as a platform for digital footprint audits and reputation monitoring, aggregating, verifying, and organising publicly available data across dozens of sources. This monitoring capability helps individuals stay informed about what appears online about them and respond early when changes occur.

Building on this foundation, WhiteBridge is now expanding its broader mission by developing a people search and research engine designed to help users quickly validate information about others with reliable context rather than guesswork.

Commenting on the growing visibility of personal data online, Tomas Martūnas, co-founder of WhiteBridge AI, noted that many people are unaware of how much information about them already circulates online, and even fewer understand how it can influence their personal and professional opportunities.

WhiteBridge, we’re here to bring clarity and control to that chaos. Our platform gives people and businesses a reliable way to understand and manage online identity signals - so they can act with confidence,

Martūnas said.

The platform supports several practical use cases. For businesses, it enables teams to prepare for sales and partnership meetings with deeper, verified context that goes beyond surface-level online profiles. It also helps organisations validate potential partners and vendors, reducing risk and strengthening trust in professional relationships. In addition, the platform supports third-party screening for digitally active adults, where the ability to quickly access reliable information is often critical.

With the new investment, the company plans to advance product development, connect to additional data providers, and strengthen the reliability and transparency of its insights.

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Mandel AI, a Sofia-based startup specialising in AI supply chain coordination that helps manufacturers manage supplier coordination, detect disruptions, and automate procurement, has closed a €3.6 million Seed round. 

The round was supported by Y Combinator, Category Ventures, Ritual Capital, e2vc, and other leading Silicon Valley investors and angels.

“Every supply chain system was built to track what happened. None were built to read and act on what’s happening right now. Sales has Gong. Legal has Harvey. Finance has Ramp. We built the AI for the people who keep supply chains running,” said Nick Gospodinov, Founder and CEO.

Founded in 2023, Mandel AI aims to replace the spreadsheets and email chains that still run most industrial supply chains today. It surfaces supply chain disruptions and supplier updates with email AI. 

According to the company, the platform sits on top of existing email and ERP systems, using purpose-built AI agents to read supplier communications, extract critical data, reconcile documents like PO confirmations and invoices, and act autonomously. It follows up with suppliers, flagging discrepancies, and escalating issues based on company-defined rules. 

The startup claims that one procurement manager working with Mandel agents can now coordinate tasks that previously required an entire team: reading, reconciling, and acting on hundreds of supplier emails daily, around the clock.

With the new funding, Mandel aims to become the go-to API for international trade communication, facilitating autonomous supply chain management for all manufacturers and distributors across North America and Europe.

Mandel reports that it has already processed over €920 million in material spend for clients in aerospace, pharma, industrials, and similar complex manufacturing industries. 

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