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August 18, 2025

2025’s most prolific unicorn backers

A few VCs have helped spawn multiple new billion dollar companies so far this year

Éanna Kelly

3 min read

Eleven new unicorns have been created in Europe so far this year — which is almost the total minted in the region during the whole of last year (13).

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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