Analysis

January 5, 2023

December’s hottest seed rounds 

From AI-assisted shopping to reducing coffee's carbon footprint, here are some of December's hottest startup seed rounds


Sadia Nowshin

5 min read

The MORFO team

The final month of 2022 didn’t bring many surprises when it came to seed funding. The month-on-month decline in the number of rounds seen since October continued, with 202 rounds compared to November’s 210 — and with €325m in funding, compared to €373m in the month before, it seems investors might have clocked out for the festive break early. 

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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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