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Finnish startup Optivian raises $2 million pre-seed to turn AI into a sales execution workforce

Helsinki-based Optivian has raised $2 million in a pre-seed round led by Failup Ventures and Tero Ojanperä, the former Silo AI co-founder whose company exited to AMD in Europe’s largest AI acquisition. The startup is building an AI Sales Execution platform that goes beyond analytics to autonomously handle the execution-heavy work of complex B2B deals, […]

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