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January 22, 2025

Europe’s PE-style rollup startups

We’ve listed the startups below that are buying and rolling up smaller companies


There’s a new wave of “rollup startups” in Europe, buying up older businesses — just like traditional PE firms do — and then deploying their software across them. 

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Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is Sifted's associate editor. She covers UK tech and leads Sifted's investigations. 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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