https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-breakthrough-fund
Should the new UK £375m ‘Breakthrough’ fund back startups or scaleups? | Sifted
Jul 23, 2021 - VC investors are divided over whether the investment should be targeted at early-stage or scaleup companies.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/equation-europe-vc-fund
Equation is a fund of funds that wants to back Europe’s emerging VCs | Sifted
Jun 5, 2023 - Cofounded by a former Lakestar partner, Equation has backed 13 emerging VC fund managers in Europe — and says it wants to back more.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/schroders-new-600m-fund
Schroders doubles down on VC with new $600m fund | Sifted
Jun 27, 2025 - Schroders recently poached Molten Ventures’ investor Dave Neumann
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https://sifted.eu/articles/eight-roads-europe-fundraise
Cazoo-backer Eight Roads launches $450m European fund| Sifted
Oct 5, 2021 - Cazoo-backer Eight Roads launches $450m fund for Europe VC, its fourth vehicle backing tech companies in the region.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/nauta-capital-120m-fund
Nauta Capital closes €120m fund to invest in B2B startups | Sifted
Jul 8, 2020 - Nauta Capital is today launching its fifth fund with an initial closing of €120m. The venture capital firm invests in seed and Series A stage
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https://sifted.eu/articles/nato-fund-lakestar-news
Lakestar founder to chair the €1bn NATO Innovation Fund | Sifted
Mar 21, 2023 - Lakestar founder Klaus Hommels will chair the board of directors of the €1bn NATO Innovation Fund that aims to invest in defence tech.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/unconventional-ventures-first-close-of-second-fund
Unconventional Ventures reaches €50m first close of second fund | Sifted
Dec 8, 2025 - Nordic impact VC firm Unconventional Ventures (UV) has reached a €50m first close on its second fund, aiming for a total of €80m.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/lifeline-vc-fifth-fund-150m-finland-news
Wolt and Oura backer Lifeline Ventures closes new €150m fund | Sifted
Dec 3, 2025 - The early-stage VC Lifeline Ventures, backer of six Finnish unicorns, closes its fifth fund of €150m — its largest to date.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/calm-storm-closes-30m-fund
Exclusive: Europe’s most active healthtech VC Calm/Storm closes €30m fund | Sifted
Oct 28, 2025 - The money will be invested in early-stage healthtech startups founded by Europeans, with 75% of those founders based in Europe.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/women-backing-women-fund-of-funds
Inside the UK’s plan to fund more female founders | Sifted
Jul 17, 2025 - Debbie Wosskow and Bootstrap 4F are raising a £250m fund of funds to invest in female fund managers in a 'world-first' for female entrepreneurship
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https://sifted.eu/articles/world-fund-closes-fund-climate-news
World Fund closes one of Europe's biggest climate funds at €300m | Sifted
Mar 25, 2024 - World Fund has reached final close on its €300m climate tech fund — in a very different investment environment to the one it started out in.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/earlybird-fund-for-universities
Earlybird launches €75m fund for university spinouts | Sifted
Jun 19, 2023 - The UNI-X fund will back European pre-seed and early-seed companies while cooperating with 45 professors from universities in the region.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/auxxo-first-close-second-fund
Female founders VC Auxxo announces first close of second fund | Sifted
Jul 21, 2025 - The firm invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups with at least one female cofounder
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https://sifted.eu/articles/la-famiglia-general-catalyst
German fund La Famiglia merges with General Catalyst | Sifted
Oct 18, 2023 - German early-stage fund La Famiglia is joining forces with US venture capitalist General Catalyst, a rare move in the VC world.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/elon-musk-carbon-removal-startup-funding
Elon Musk has $80m to fund a carbon removal startup. Here’s what he’s after | Sifted
Aug 12, 2022 - Musk stumped up the money to fund the largest incentive prize in history. The XPrize's chief scientist describes what he's after.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/cloudberry-30m-fund-semiconductors
Tackling Europe’s chip bottleneck: Semiconductor VC Cloudberry closes €30m fund | Sifted
Dec 18, 2025 - The Helsinki and London-based VC will back startups in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials
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https://sifted.eu/articles/abramovich-uk-tech-investments-impulse
Roman Abramovich quietly used an offshore fund to back UK tech | Sifted
Aug 11, 2025 - The Russian billionare has long been described as a backer of Impulse VC. Behind Impulse was a British Virgin Islands-based company controlled by Abramovich
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https://sifted.eu/articles/exclusive-nato-innovation-fund-leads-e25m-series-a-in-photonics-startup-camgraphic
Exclusive: NATO Innovation Fund co-leads €25m Series A in photonics startup Camgraphic | Sifted
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https://sifted.eu/articles/europe-largest-climate-vc
World Fund's €350m makes it Europe's largest climate tech firm | Sifted
Oct 26, 2021 - Europe’s biggest climate VC just came out of stealth with €350m. World Fund will work closely with the tree-planting search engine Ecosia.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/all-iron-ventures-fund
All Iron Ventures launches Spain’s biggest debut fund, with no public money | Sifted
Nov 5, 2020 - The experienced founders were able to attract all of the money from private investors. The new fund from All Iron is the largest debut fund in Spain
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https://sifted.eu/articles/octopus-ventures-pre-seed-fund-10m
Octopus Ventures launches its first-ever pre-seed fund of £10m | Sifted
Mar 1, 2023 - With a new female-led pre-seed fund, Octopus Ventures wants to get in early as the first cheque that diverse founders across Europe receive.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/robin-haak-solo-gp-fund
Solo GP Robin Haak raises fund to back B2B SaaS startups in Europe, Israel and the US | Sifted
Jul 25, 2023 - Robin Capital has raised €3m of a €10m-20m fund target, part of a continuing wave of investors going at it alone — and avoiding the internal politics that come...
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https://sifted.eu/articles/french-deeptechs-nato-fund
French deeptechs are losing out on Nato’s €1bn VC fund | Sifted
Nov 25, 2023 - NATO’s €1bn fund is backed by most European countries — but not France, meaning startups in the country are losing out on new investor cash.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/giano-secondaries-news
Secondaries firm Giano Capital has raised €20m of a new fund | Sifted
Geneva-based Giano Capital has raised roughly €20m of a new fund to invest in venture secondaries mainly in Europe.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/northzone-1bn-fund
Northzone raises €1bn fund to back European entrepreneurs | Sifted
Sep 13, 2022 - Sifted sat down with the Northzone partners to talk about FOMO, founders, debt and what on earth went on in 2021.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/coi-partners-e120m-dach-growth-fund
COI Partners launches €120m growth fund for DACH companies | Sifted
Jul 14, 2022 - The new DACH fund will bring its assets under management to €300m and provide optimism to mid and large-stage startups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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https://sifted.eu/articles/atomico-fund-of-funds-portfolio-sale
Atomico sells part of fund of funds portfolio to PE group Kline Hill Partners | Sifted
Jun 27, 2025 - Sifted understands that the European VC's portfolio funds up for sale include those it backed between 2022 and 2023
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https://sifted.eu/articles/educapital-fund-edtech-europe
Educapital raises Europe’s largest edtech fund | Sifted
Mar 16, 2022 - Educapital raises Europe’s largest edtech fund, aiming for a final close of €150m to invest in education startups from seed to Series B.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/bethnal-green-ventures-33m-new-fund
Bethnal Green Ventures raises £33m of a new fund to back tech for good | Sifted
Nov 29, 2023 - The fund aims to back up to 100 impact startups based in the UK through the firm’s Tech For Good Programme.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/55-north-launch-first-close-300m-fund
Quantum VC firm 55 North launches with first close of €300m fund | Sifted
Oct 2, 2025 - The new fund’s anchor investors include Novo Holdings and the Danish state fund
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https://sifted.eu/articles/b2venture-150-fifth-fund-deeptech
DeepL backer B2venture raises €150m for fifth fund | Sifted
Jan 28, 2026 - The new fund will back up to 35 startups and includes investment from a Swiss pension fund for the first time
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https://sifted.eu/articles/nick-clegg-hiro-capital-yann-lecun-vc
Inside Nick Clegg and Yann LeCun's €500m deeptech fund | Sifted
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https://sifted.eu/articles/nato-innovation-fund-loses-third-partner
The €1bn NATO Innovation Fund loses third partner in a year | Sifted
Jun 16, 2025 - The deeptech and defence-focused VC has seen a lot of turnover at the top since launching in the summer of 2023
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https://sifted.eu/articles/project-a-ventures-raises-largest-fund
Project A Ventures raises largest fund to date of $375m | Sifted
It is Project A Ventures' fourth investment vehicle and brings its total funds under management to $1bn. But where will the money be spent?
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https://sifted.eu/articles/eif-launches-e15bn-fund-of-funds
EIF launches €15bn fund of funds to back 100 growth-stage VCs | Sifted
Mar 25, 2026 - This is the second iteration of the European Tech Champions Initiative, which launched in 2023 in a bid to boost late-stage startup funding in Europe
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https://sifted.eu/articles/ananda-impact-ventures-closes-e73m
Exclusive: Ananda Impact Ventures closes €73m for new deeptech fund | Sifted
Jan 20, 2026 - The firm targets a final close at €108m, which it expects to reach this year
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https://sifted.eu/articles/ex-sequoia-partner-matt-miller-400m-fund
Ex-Sequoia partner Matt Miller launches $400m fund Evantic | Sifted
Sep 29, 2025 - Sifted first revealed Miller was raising funds for his own venture in April
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https://sifted.eu/articles/future-fund-diversity-data
Future Fund releases first set of diversity data | Sifted
Jun 23, 2020 - Of the startups approved for Future Fund funding, 50% have mixed-ethnicity senior management teams — and 79% have mixed gender senior management teams.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/bnvt-hedosophia-gates
Hedosophia and Gates alums close $150m fund to tackle ‘systemic problems’ | Sifted
Sep 18, 2025 - A former Hedosophia investor and a Gates Foundation alum have teamed up to launch a new VC firm, BNVT Capital.
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