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Ex-NGP Capital investor to run new €100m deeptech fund for Europe and US

The fund will back startups and other VCs across Europe and the US

Anne Sraders

4 min read

Uplift Ventures, a new VC fund backed solely by German material handling company Jungheinrich, is launching a €100m fund to back deeptech startups in Europe and the US.

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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