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February 9, 2024

There’s a lack of growth capital in Europe — Germany’s €1bn deeptech and climate tech fund wants to change that

The fund backed six early stage companies last year and wants to focus on writing bigger cheques in 2024


Dr. Elisabeth Schrey and Tobias Faupel, managing directors of the DTCF (Picture: Dirk Hasskarl)

Germany’s €1bn deeptech and climate tech fund will begin backing growth stage startups in 2024 in an effort to plug Europe’s post-Series B funding gap. 

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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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