Analysis

December 20, 2022

The German tech funding results are in for 2022 — and it’s not looking good

Funding into German startups fell sharply in 2022, a stark contrast to the boom year of 2021


Eva-Valérie Gfrerer

After a blockbuster year of funding in 2021, venture capital investments in German tech startups cooled off in the second half of this year — as the worsening effects of war, inflation and rising interest rates took hold. 

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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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