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3 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read
What's 🔥 in European tech?
🔸VCs will get an extra €1bn from the EU
🔸SPACs: what's Europe waiting for?
🔸Is quantum-as-a-service investors' new love affair?
🔸Sofinnova launches a €445m healthtech fund

Here's our news round-up👇
1/ European VC funds will receive an additional €1bn boost of public money as the EU aims to accelerate the economic bounceback from Covid 🇪🇺

Read our interview with Alain Godard, CEO of the @EIF_EU:

sifted.eu/articles/eif-v…
2/ The US has been hit by a SPAC craze. In Europe, there's a lot of talk about it, but we have yet to see SPACs taking off 🙃

@Nicolas_Colin makes a case for SPACs and how they could benefit the European ecosystem:

sifted.eu/articles/spacs…
3/ Since 2012, more than $1.9bn has been invested in France's quantum tech startups 🇫🇷

The time is starting to be right to invest in quantum computing, says @DraperEsprit's Stuart Chapman:

sifted.eu/articles/inves…
4/ @SofinnovaVC has closed a new €445m fund to invest in late-stage healthtech companies in Europe 🏥

Managing partner Antoine Papiernik aims to plug Europe's healthtech funding gap:

sifted.eu/articles/sofin…

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3 Mar
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 🧵👇
1/ Despite a 31% growth in VC and angel investment from 2019, more than half of the total $139m raised went to Turkish companies with a legal structure abroad:
2/ Turkey’s largest funding round in 2020 was into marketing management platform @useinsider ($32m). Other notable funding rounds include @AppSamurai’s $2.4m Series A, @visperaco’s $2.1m Series B and Twin’s $2m crowdfunding.
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2 Mar
What's 🔥 in European tech?
🔸Klarna's valuation is more than Estonia's GDP in 2020
🔸Is France's investment plan in quantum tech enough?
🔸Corporate investments are about to take off in Europe
🔸How to take startup funding to the next level

Here's our news round-up 👇
1/ After closing a $1bn round yesterday, @Klarna is now Europe’s most valuable startup: it's worth $31bn, which is more than Estonia's $30bn GDP in 2020 🙃

sifted.eu/articles/klarn…
2/ France has pledged to spend €1.8bn in quantum tech over the next five years to put the country at the top of the field. But is it enough? 🇫🇷

We spoke to @JurczakQris, founder of quantum VC @Quantonation:

sifted.eu/articles/franc…
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1 Mar
What's 🔥 in European tech?
🔸VCs predict Estonia's next unicorn
🔸Competition is ramping up in European quantum tech
🔸Can psychedelic drugs really scale?
🔸How to get pitch feedback from VCs

Here's our news round-up👇
1/ Home to just 1.3m people, Estonia has produced five 'unicorn' startups valued at over $1bn and is the best performing nation in the world in terms of unicorns per capita🦄 🇪🇪

We asked five investors which startups are likely to be the next unicorns:

sifted.eu/articles/eston…
2/ From high-profile academics joining European startups to companies raising ever-larger funding rounds, Europe's quantum market is heating up 🚀

Here's what investors are saying about the growing sector:

sifted.eu/articles/inves…
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