Analysis

June 21, 2024

Is Europe's growth funding gap a myth?

Policymakers and public funders bemoan the lack of growth capital in Europe. But do scaleups actually lack funding?


Credit: Freepix

Unless you’ve just started learning about Europe’s startup ecosystem, you’ll have heard about one of its biggest challenges: ‘the growth funding gap’. 

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

Amy Lewin

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

Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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