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December 4, 2025

Salesforce challenger Brevo becomes Europe’s newest unicorn with €500m share sale

The Paris-based scaleup is set to record a second year of profitability with €200m ARR

Brevo, the Paris-based scaleup providing customer management tools for small and medium businesses (SMBs), has raised €500m in secondary funding valuing the company over €1bn.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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