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Author: Ivan Levingston

2023-11-28

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Funding for European technology companies plunges by nearly half

Start-ups on the continent are expected to raise $45bn in 2023, down from $82bn last year, as US investors pull back.

Author: Isabella Ward

2023-11-28

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Foreign Investment in Europe’s Big Startups ‘Grinding to a Halt’

Overseas investment into Europe’s latter-stage technology startups dropped to a four-year low, according to a report from venture capital firm Atomico.

Author: Katie Prescott

2023-11-28

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UK is Europe’s biggest destination for technology investment

Amid a downward trend in investment worldwide and a fall in American investment in European technology, the latest annual State of European Tech report by Atomico found that overall there was a marked drop in the amount of capital flowing into technology businesses after a period of growth in 2021.

Author: Kai Nicol-Schwarz

2023-11-28

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The top takeaways from Atomico’s State of European Tech report

Atomico’s 2023 State of European Tech report paints a topsy-turvy picture of European tech. Investors and founders alike are struggling to raise cash, investment has dropped on levels seen across 2021 and 2022 and funding for underrepresented founders is still embarrassingly poor.

Author: James Titcomb

2023-11-28

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Scandinavian pension funds invest more in UK start-ups than British counterparts

Scandinavian pension funds are investing more cash in UK start-ups than their British counterparts, data shows, as Jeremy Hunt battles to boost funding in homegrown tech companies...

Author: Charlie Taylor

2023-11-28

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Investment in Irish tech start-ups plummets 48%

Investment levels fell 48 per cent in Ireland this year with $647 million (€590.1 million) invested in Irish tech companies, versus $1.05 billion in 2022, new figures show.

Author: Robert Scammell

2023-11-28

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UK remains top for tech VC funding but loses ground to Europe

The data, published in Atomico’s ‘The State of European Tech 2023’ report, found that the UK has lost the largest share of VC funding invested by country over the last three years.