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October 6, 2026

Is Europe’s secondaries boom only serving the 1%?

Much of the secondaries excitement has focused on giants like Lovable, Revolut and Elevenlabs


The secondaries boom has been the talk of European tech over the past year, as the biggest scaleups on the content — including fintech giant Revolut, voice AI decacorn ElevenLabs and vibe coding darling Lovable — conduct secondaries at a higher frequency to offer early investors and employees liquidity, while securing new valuations in the process.

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Damisola Sulaiman

Damisola Sulaiman is Sifted's fintech reporter, based in London. She writes Sifted's weekly Fintech newsletter . You can find her on LinkedIn

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