The shock of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse in 2023 made startups across Europe painfully aware of how reliant they were on their bank — and how exposed they were, if they only had one. (And plenty did: one survey found that over a third of British startups banked solely with SVB UK at the time.)
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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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