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August 21, 2026

Who are Europe’s ‘top’ VCs? Claude and ChatGPT have some left-field picks

New research reveals which investors are out-competing the world's biggest players on AI recommendations

Éanna Kelly

4 min read

If you ask Claude, ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to name Europe's “top investors”, prepare for some surprising results.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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