Analysis

November 18, 2022

13 German startups to watch, according to VCs

We asked investors to pick the most interesting companies outside of their portfolios


Lauren Lentz, general partner at Revent

2021 was a golden year for German startups, with a record $20.4bn invested by VCs. 

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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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