2024 brought mixed fortunes for European tech. The first half of the year saw a flurry of dealmaking, with €28.6bn in equity raised by startups, but the second half of the year saw a 36% slump, with just €18.4bn raised, according to Sifted data.
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Hessa Alabbas is a data analyst at Sifted, based in London. You can find her on LinkedIn.

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