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Spiich Raises 3 Million Euros To Automate Sales Admin While Keeping Humans In The Deal

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Johan Torssell (CEO) and Dennis Hadzialic (COO)

Johan Torssell (CEO) and Dennis Hadzialic (COO)

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Spiich, a Stockholm based startup building AI agents for sales teams, has raised 3 million euros in a seed funding round to expand across Europe as it bets that the future of AI in sales lies in supporting reps rather than replacing them.

The round was led by Ugly Duckling Ventures, a Copenhagen based firm focused on Nordic B2B software companies. New investors Alliance VC and Cherry Ventures also joined, while Ampli Ventures, which led Spiich's pre seed round, returned with a follow on investment. The round also drew individual backers connected to Lovable, Neo4j, Tandem Health, and OpenAI. The raise comes ten months after Spiich closed a 600,000 euro pre seed round, bringing its total funding to 3.6 million euros.

Spiich was founded in Stockholm in June 2025 by Johan Torssell and Dennis Hadzialic. Torssell has said that over the past year he spoke with roughly 2,500 to 3,000 sales representatives while developing the product, and consistently found that reps enjoyed working directly with customers but disliked nearly everything else their job required, a gap Salesforce research puts at around 78 percent of a typical salesperson's time going to non selling activity such as updating records, preparing for meetings, and following up on leads.

The company's agents are built to absorb that surrounding workload rather than the sale itself. In practice, Spiich's system identifies accounts and prospects that match a company's ideal customer profile, researches relevant background on those prospects, drafts follow up emails after meetings, updates CRM records and pipeline stages automatically, and schedules the next task in a deal's progression. Reps still review outbound messages before they go out, keeping a human in the loop on anything customer facing, while the system quietly handles the administrative work behind the scenes.

That design choice puts Spiich at odds with a vocal segment of the AI sales tooling market that has marketed itself around replacing sales staff outright. Torssell has drawn a direct contrast with companies such as Artisan and 11x, which have built campaigns around the idea that businesses should stop hiring human sales representatives in favor of AI agents. He has said Spiich takes the opposite view, arguing that conversion rates from fully automated outreach remain poor because people do not buy from agents, they buy from people, and that Spiich's agents are built to make salespeople more effective rather than to stand in for them.

The approach appears to be resonating with customers so far. Spiich says it now serves more than 50 companies across 15 countries spanning Europe, the United States, and South America, including NORNORM, ProfitMetrics, Zaver, Airmee, Rebaba, and Epiminds, with reported near zero churn since launch. According to the company, customers have more than 50,000 deals closed through the platform to date, and have reported doubling the number of customer meetings booked, cutting prospecting time by roughly 90 percent, and tripling market coverage after adopting the tool.

Louise Lachmann, general partner at Ugly Duckling Ventures, said that every sales tool of the past decade promised to give reps their time back, and that most of them ended up delivering another system that needed to be kept updated rather than solving the underlying problem.

Spiich has grown from a two person founding team to eight employees over its first ten months and plans to use the new capital primarily to expand its engineering and go to market teams as it scales further across Europe. Torssell identifies Rox and Monaco as the company's closest direct competitors within the narrower category of AI tools built specifically to support, rather than substitute, human sales reps, a category that remains smaller than the broader AI sales agent market but one that Spiich is betting will prove more durable as buyers grow wary of fully automated outreach.

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