MiddleGame Ventures, a Luxembourg-based VC firm focusing on fintech, has hit the first close of a targeted €150m fund, telling Sifted it’s raised roughly a third of that sum — around €55m.
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June 25, 2024
Fintech firm MiddleGame Ventures raises €55m of targeted €150m fund
The Luxembourg-based firm is raising a fintech-specific fund amid declining investor appetite for the sector
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Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

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