Serious-minded European founders and investors, we are often told, prefer to focus on purposeful tech rather than the vapid, if enormously lucrative, consumer tech companies popular in Silicon Valley. Judging by Sifted’s latest H1 funding report, there is something more to this than just Europe’s habitual virtue signalling.
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