Analysis

April 27, 2020

In data: The impact of Covid-19 on UK startups

Renegotiated office rent, frozen hiring, slashed advertising budgets: how startups are mitigating the effects of the coronavirus crisis.


Amy Lewin

4 min read

Startups across Europe have been badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic — but reliable data on exactly what the impact has been, and how companies are trying to mitigate the effects of the crisis, is hard to come by.

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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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