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March 16, 2022

14 up-and-coming UK startups which aren’t from London, according to VCs

It isn’t all about the Big Smoke. Investors tell us about spicy startups from elsewhere in the UK


Away from the bright lights of London, UK tech communities are thriving. In 2021, startups from outside the capital snapped up $14.7bn in funding — twice as much as the year before — and raised more than their counterparts in countries like France, the Netherlands and Sweden, according to Dealroom.

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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