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June 6, 2023

An unknown Swedish startup’s €3bn bid to build a green rival to AWS

Having just raised a €13m pre-seed round, evroc aims to raise €3bn within the next two years


Mimi Billing

6 min read

European startups are often criticised for not being ambitious enough — but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for evroc.

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Evroc's hyperscale cloud centres
Evroc's interpretation of its cloud centres
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Headshot of Mattias Åström, CEO of evroc
Mattias Åström, founder of evroc
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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