German AI company Aleph Alpha has today raised $500m (€460m) in one of Europe’s largest AI rounds ever. €110m of the funding is in the form of equity, and Sifted understands the majority of the funding is in the form of a grant. It includes no debt.
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November 6, 2023
Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in one of Europe’s largest AI rounds ever
The German AI startup hopes to compete with LLM competitors in the US and China
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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