Analysis

December 7, 2023

Italy’s first DAC plant and bacteria that chows on CO2: November’s seed roundup

Is early-stage activity slowing down in the run up to the festive season?


Qomodo cofounders Gaetano de Maio and Gianluca Cocco

We’re well into the tail end of 2023 and for early-stage startups, that’s meant a slowdown in funding.

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Shubham Jaipuria

Shubham is a data analyst intern with Sifted Intelligence, and can be contacted on LinkedIn

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