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March 25, 2025

Daphni launches €250m climate tech fund to back ‘scientist-entrepreneurs’

Daphni’s new fund will back up to 40 startups across Europe building science-based tech for climate

Paris-based VC Daphni, an early backer of quantum computing startup Pasqal and buzzy agentic AI company H, has raised €200m to be invested in science and climate tech, with plans to close with a further €50m by the end of the year. 

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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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