Anne Sraders
Senior Reporter, Financial Times at Sifted
Senior reporter at the Financial Times' @Siftedeu. Covering European VC & deeptech startups from Berlin. 🇺🇸🇱🇻 tips: [email protected] Past: @FortuneMagazine
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
VC trends tend to make their way from the US across the Atlantic eventually: secondaries, continuation funds — and, now, strip sales. Insiders say this type of secondary transaction, which involves a VC fund manager selling stakes in a bundle of portfolio companies instead of just one asset, is an area of increasing interest for European VCs as they remain desperate for liquidity.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
There are a handful of red hot startups in Europe — Mistral, Neko Health, Black Forest Labs, Helsing — and US VC General Catalyst is in all of them. The firm, which first opened an office in London in 2021 and now has a portfolio of about 90 companies in Europe, has become the continent’s kingmaker in recent years. It’s also doubled down on Europe: in the last year, the team has made 30 new investments.
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2 weeks ago |
einvestidor.estadao.com.br | Anne Sraders
Mesmo que o presidente do Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, não pense que estamos em uma recessão ainda, o clima na rua é de ansiedade, já que a economia acaba de registrar dois trimestres consecutivos de declínios no PIB. Mas um gestor de carteiras acredita que algumas ações podem resistir à turbulência atual e futura — e recompensar os investidores pelo risco que estão assumindo agora.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Miriam Partington |Kai Nicol-Schwarz |Anne Sraders
European VC firms are weighing up the impact of Donald Trump’s punishing array of tariffs on the continent’s startup ecosystem. Last week, the US president forged ahead with his long-trailed “Liberation Day”, slapping unprecedented import taxes on goods shipped into the US from around the world. The package saw some investors lose billions of dollars on the stock market — and others their appetite for risk.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
British Business Bank (BBB), the London-based state backer of dozens of VC funds including Balderton Capital and Atomico, has ditched its VC-focused subsidiary British Patient Capital and is bringing the brand under the broader BBB name. As of last month, “the British Business Bank has transitioned to a single, unified brand encompassing all our investment and banking products. As a result, the British Business Investments and British Patient Capital brands have been retired,” the BBB told Sifted.
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RT @Siftedeu: The fund will be focused on leading Series B and C rounds in AI and B2B European startups, Sifted understands. #Sequoia #Ve…
New: I dug into US VC General Catalyst, which is ramping up its Europe investments and aims to spend $1bn per year in the region. More details on GC's new strategies in Europe, its increasingly political focus — and high turnover in Berlin @Siftedeu https://t.co/ISRkZpzGvX
SCOOP: Former longtime Sequoia partner Matt Miller, who left the firm in December, is raising around $300m for his new fund, sources tell @NicolSchwarzK and me. The fund will focus on backing AI and B2B startups, largely at Series B-C. More on @Siftedeu https://t.co/GD1Ak0qqwF