Although many of Europe’s most active limited partner (LP) investors are homegrown — like the public-private EU backer the European Investment Fund — several of the US’s largest LPs have spied opportunity across the Atlantic, actively investing in some of Europe’s best-known VC funds in recent years.
The US LPs backing European venture funds
A number of endowments, foundations and fund of funds are investing in European VC
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