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December 8, 2022

Is enterprise SaaS in for a rocky 2023?

Only 42% of participants at a recent Sifted Pro Roundtable believed that enterprise SaaS is looking as strong as it did at the start of 2022


Amelie Bahr

3 min read

Enterprise software emerged victorious from an otherwise tumultuous 2022 for European tech as the year’s best funded sector — and one of the few industries that saw funding volumes further improve on last year’s records; $17.8bn has been raised so far in 2022, compared to $16.9bn in 2021.

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