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Pricefx, which offers cloud-based pricing software, raises €23M in additional funding as part of its Series B led by Digital+ Partners

Pricefx, the Munich-founded startup that offers cloud-based pricing software, has raised €23 million in additional funding as part of its earlier Series B round.

TechCrunch Steve O'Hear

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Price f(x) first raised a €25M Series B led by Digital + Partners in December 2018 to scale its Munich-built cloud pricing platform; this €23M is an extension of that same round with the same lead, not a new valuation event — a top-up while the company builds toward a bigger raise.

That sequencing paid off: within eight months, Apax Digital led a $65M Series C, making this extension the bridge between the initial B and the growth round. It also lands in a market where pricing is becoming its own software layer rather than a spreadsheet exercise inside ERP systems.

First-order effects

  • Digital + Partners doubles down as lead on a single round it already anchored, extending Pricefx's runway and sales capacity without resetting the Series B terms.

Second-order effects

  • A funded incumbent in pricing software raises the bar for newer entrants attacking adjacent slices of the same workflow, such as London-based Sequence's pricing and billing API tools.

Third-order effects

  • If pricing keeps attracting dedicated venture rounds at every stage, enterprise buyers will increasingly procure pricing decisions as a standalone SaaS platform instead of modules bolted onto finance or commerce suites.

The trend: Pricing optimization is consolidating into a distinct European SaaS category, with investors funding it across seed-to-growth stages.