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January 3, 2025

The European VCs due to fundraise in 2025

Project A, XAnge and Amadeus Capital Partners are all out in the market

Anne Sraders

6 min read

The past two years have been a tricky time for VC firms to fundraise; LPs have grown more scrupulous as they wait for distributions, and some of Europe’s largest VCs seem to be raking in the lion’s share of the funding with increasingly enormous funds. 

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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

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