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    Oct 10, 2025
    LIVE: Europe’s fastest-growing startups in 2025 🌟 This year’s cohort generated €6.3bn in revenue in the last financial year, proving Europe’s startup ecosystem is building companies that could define Europe’s future. Meet the rising stars 👉 sifted.eu/intelligence/r…
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    Jan 26, 2021
    London is the second fastest growing tech ecosystem worldwide, ahead of San Francisco, New York and Shanghai 🚀 VC investment jumped from $3.5bn in 2016 to $10.5bn in 2020, according to @dealroomco & @londonpartners:
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    Nov 11, 2021
    Meet London’s latest speedy grocery startup: Oja. 🇬🇧 @OjaHQ, which has just secured a $3.3m seed round led by @localglobevc, will initially focus “on Nigerian, Ghanaian and Jamaican products”, says founder @TheArtofMariam. 💬 sifted.eu/articles/oja-d…
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    Apr 1, 2021
    92% of VCs believe that they bring value to startups in their portfolios, but only 39% of founders agree 🙊 How to explain this gap: ow.ly/cLEI50EeiWG
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    Mar 2, 2021
    VC funding in Paris reached a record $5.3bn last year — and the French capital is now the EU's #1 hub for startup investment 🇫🇷 bit.ly/3qcYtqh #frenchtech @ngpcapital
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    Mar 3, 2021
    Investment into Turkey’s tech scene skyrocketed in 2020: Turkish startups raised a record $139m and local VCs raised $328m, according to @StartUpsWatch 🇹🇷 Let’s dive into Turkey’s VC landscape 🧵👇
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    Jun 18, 2021
    The UK is now the first country in Europe to have 100 startups worth $1bn+ 🇬🇧 The 100 UK unicorns have already broken a record in the first half of 2021 –– by raising almost €28.9bn VC funding, according to @TechNation.
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    Jul 8, 2021
    💥Afro and curly haircare product startups @Afrocenchix secures a $1.2m seed round from @Google. It's only the ninth UK business run by a Black woman to secure VC funds in the last decade:
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    “There was an assumption that we must not be that intelligent” — one Black founder’s experience
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    May 18, 2020
    The Softbank Q1 slide deck is out and it's ace as ever... just CHECK OUT these graphics group.softbank/system/files/p…
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    Nov 28, 2019
    30 AI people in Europe to follow on Twitter #artificialintelligence #ai
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    30 AI people in Europe to follow on Twitter
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    Nov 22, 2021
    Germany’s first VC fund exclusively backing female-founded startups has launched today. 🇩🇪 Auxxo will write cheques of €100k-600k for a 3-5% stake in the business, and hopes to link up female founders with more established VC firms. 💸
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    Germany’s first VC fund for female founders launches
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    Oct 14, 2021
    Women are less likely to engage in investing than men, with men making up around 70% of the users on investment apps. Enter Juno: launching today hot off a £250k pre-seed round, Juno tackles the gender financial literacy gap.💰 @i_woodford reports.👇
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    Meet the sisters who quit their jobs to build ‘The Duolingo of finance’
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    Mar 28, 2023
    Fastest growing private launcher in Europe pulls in $330m in VC cash overall in five years and notches biggest global spacetech round so far in 2023
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    Starting to take off: German rocket maker Isar Aerospace raises $165m
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    Apr 20, 2021
    Berlin was named Europe’s most attractive ecosystem by European founders, according to @eustartup's latest survey. After a year marked by Covid and Brexit, London loses the top spot — Amsterdam and Barcelona rank #3. How have European tech hubs changed in the past year? 🧵👇
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