It is a great time to be a scaleup company in Europe, with fewer but bigger funding rounds happening and investor money being concentrated in fewer, but bigger funds. But will smaller startups find it harder to attract money?


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January 18, 2019
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It is a great time to be a scaleup company in Europe, with fewer but bigger funding rounds happening and investor money being concentrated in fewer, but bigger funds. But will smaller startups find it harder to attract money?



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