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May 20, 2021

Exclusive: Berlin Visionaries Club closes two $85m funds to back B2B startups

It’s backed by some of Europe’s top founders — but what caught their eye?


Berlin Visionaries Club team

Europe’s startup founders are increasingly trying their hand at something (relatively) new: becoming LPs. 

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Visionaries Club founders: Robert Lacher (left) and Sebastian Pollok (right).
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Visionaries Club's 'family' of LPs
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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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