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May 3, 2022

The list: April’s hottest seed investments

Here are the seed investments that caught our eye this month, from a metaverse platform to a platform hoping to make entrepreneurship open to everyone


Freya Pratty

5 min read

Namrata Sandhu, cofounder of Vaayu.

April was a month of fewer rounds, but bigger cheques for Europe’s seed stage companies.

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Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is Sifted's associate editor. She covers UK tech and leads Sifted's investigations. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

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