Analysis

March 3, 2023

Consumer tech startups still worth watching, according to VCs

From a meal-planning app that streamlines your grocery shop to a social ecommerce platform for collectibles, here are the startups VCs want to highlight


Sadia Nowshin

7 min read

Anna Bosch, investment manager at btov partners

The cost of living crisis means 2023 is unlikely to be the year of the consumer. 

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Matt Chandler, investor in consumer tech at Octopus Ventures
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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia Nowshin was a reporter at Sifted covering foodtech, biotech and startup life. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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