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October 20, 2021

Rossum raises $100m in one of eastern Europe's largest Series A rounds

Prague-based startup is focused on creating a universal document gateway that could reinvent the way companies receive and process documents


Kit Gillet

4 min read

Rossum cofounders

Prague-based SaaS startup Rossum has announced $100m in Series A funding, one of the largest ever Series A rounds to come out of eastern Europe. Founded in 2016 by three PhD drop-outs, Rossum is aiming to reinvent the way businesses send documents to each other.

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