Opinion

July 22, 2020

Dark clouds on the horizon for European Venture Capital

The last few months have been great for European Venture Capital. But is that all about the change?


Nicolas Colin

5 min read

In their quarterly update about new European venture capital funds, impact investor Stefano Bernardi and Yannick Roux of Semantic Ventures write that it has been “the wildest quarter in a long time”, with “33 new European funds closing almost €3bn in fresh new capital”.

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Nicolas Colin

Nicolas Colin is cofounder of VC firm The Family. He writes a regular column for Sifted

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