Startup secondaries — when private companies enable existing shareholders like VCs and employees to sell some of those shares — have picked up this year.
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Analysis
November 15, 2024
Here are all the European startups that have done secondaries this year
Sifted’s tracked close to 50 secondary transactions in Europe so far in 2024, including several of the continent’s most closely followed scaleups
Amy Lewin, Federico Scolari and Hessa Alabbas
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Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky
Federico Scolari is a senior intelligence analyst and data lead at Sifted. Find him on LinkedIn
Hessa Alabbas is a data analyst at Sifted, based in London. You can find her on LinkedIn.

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