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December 27, 2021

10 predictions for German tech in 2022

What’s in store for German tech and startups in 2022? We asked the experts to find out.


Nathan Bonnisseau (and Lubomila Jordanova, founders of Plan A

2021 was a big year for Germany's startup scene, as it grew seven new unicorns and thousands of startups bagged record amounts of funding. So will next year be even better?

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Verena Pausder, managing partner of Pausder Ventures
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Omio founder Naren Shaam.
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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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