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October 25, 2023

German LP KfW Capital launches €200m ‘emerging managers facility’ to boost diversity in VC

The initiative is financed by the German government’s Future Fund

Germany’s state-backed LP KfW Capital has launched a new initiative designed to boost diversity in the country’s VC ecosystem — which, like elsewhere in Europe, is still sorely lacking. 

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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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