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March 3, 2023

The hottest seed rounds of February 2023

From an AI that will spring clean your inbox to a neobank investing in impact projects, here are some of February's interesting seed rounds


Sadia Nowshin

5 min read

The Plenti founders

273 startups drummed up seed funding in Europe last month, raising a total of €423m — a slight dip from January’s €462m across 286 rounds, but higher than the lows seen at the tail end of 2022.

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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia Nowshin was a reporter at Sifted covering foodtech, biotech and startup life. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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