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Tackling Europe’s chip bottleneck: Semiconductor VC Cloudberry closes €30m fund

The Helsinki and London-based VC will back startups in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials

Cloudberry, a new VC firm based in Helsinki and London, has closed €30m for its first-time fund to back European startups tackling the bottlenecks faced by the semiconductor industry.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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