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December 7, 2022

Cavalry Ventures announces first close of its €160m fund

Third funds are notoriously difficult to raise — and this one has been no different


A team picture of Cavalry from 2022; some team members have left since the photo was taken.

Cavalry Ventures, the self-confessed “no bullshit” fund with a Notion page for a website, has raised €100m of a target €160m fund — its third investing in early-stage technology companies. 

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Miriam Partington

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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