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The founder-built European VC. We partner with the most ambitious entrepreneurs using technology to rewire the world, better. https://t.co/AQP76uWwdW

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Ten years since the launch of the State of European Tech, we’re bringing you the first ever documentary about the ecosystem’s progress. Coming on the 19 November - sign-up in the comments #SOET24
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5 years
Announcing Atomico V: $820M to partner with mission-driven European founders at Series A and beyond.
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It's HERE! The State of European Tech Report - the single most comprehensive, data-driven story of European technology today - is now LIVE! Get your hands on all the data here: #europeantech #Slush17
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So. it's here! Welcome one and all to the State of European Tech Report 2018 - once again, the deepest, most in-depth data-driven look at Europe's tech ecosystem. We can't wait to see what you make of this year's data: #soet18.
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8 years
We're very pleased to announce Atomico IV this morning: $765m for Europe’s most ambitious founders
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The 2019 State of European Tech is live! Check out it out now .
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How much does it cost to start and build a team in different European cities? We calculated the cost for a hypothetical Series A SaaS company. London most expensive mostly b/c of office space, but salaries are higher in Copenhagen + Munich. #SoET19.
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How it started How it’s going .
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"Europe has a Product Manager problem. A major skill shortage of PMs that is crippling our chances of executing towards huge outcomes."- @sirajkhaliq
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7 years
What an amazing day. So humbled and honoured our CEO @nzennstrom had the opportunity to speak with @BarackObama about everything from basketball to climate change to family. Thank you for your wisdom, Mr. President.
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We are honoured to announce that President Emmanuel Macron will join tomorrow's 2020 State of European Tech report launch in a special fireside chat with our CEO Niklas Zennström about the future of tech in Europe. Join us tomorrow while seats last! .
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Congratulations to the 18 incredible individuals in the 2021 Atomico Angel Programme, led this year by @TereseKWH 🎉 . Read more about this year's cohort and the legacy of the 2020 participants.
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Introducing the Atomico Angel Programme
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In 6 days, we'll be launching the 2018 State of European Tech Report - once again, it's going to be the single, most comprehensive data-driven story of European technology today. If you want to get the report when it launches, sign up here: #soet18
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We’re excited to announce our partnership with @PsiQuantum today: building the world’s first useful quantum computer.
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We’re proud to announce @IrinaHaivas' promotion to Partner @ Atomico. Irina has led Atomico's partnership with three gamechanging teams transforming health with technology: @Healx, @accuRx and .@KheironMedical. Congrats Irina!. Read more about it here:
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The 2020 State of European Tech report is now live! . Thanks to the partnership of @SlushHQ and @Orrick and the support of @SVB_UK .
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Very excited to welcome our two new investment team members today! .Welcome to the Atomico family Sasha and Terese! .
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2 years
A joint statement for @Jeremy_Hunt & @hmtreasury, from a number of leading UK venture capital funds, in support of @SVB_UK
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In 7 days time, we unveil the State of European Tech Report 2017- the single, most comprehensive data-driven story of European technology today - at @SlushHQ. Sign up here to get notified when it's published! #soet17
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7 years
Meet Sophia Bendz: Our Newest Partner at Atomico Follow her on @sophiabendz.
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Europe's founders pick London as their number one place to start-up, with Berlin second #needtoknow:
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To us, our work is our mission. Our firm is built by, and for, founders. Read our Manifesto here:
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Last year, Atomico launched its inaugural angel programme with 12 participants led by @sophiabendz. Today we're excited to announce the 15 members of the second cohort and the learnings from cohort one.
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It's a big day at @atomico! Congratulations to our newest Partner @benblume, the go-to investor for European Enterprise and SaaS Founders at Series A 🎉 .And huge congratulations to our newest Principals Luca Eisenstecken and @hillarywball! .
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🚀IT'S HERE: The 2021 State of European Tech report🚀 . . The report is 𝘁𝗵𝗲 barometer of all the progress charted by European tech this year, bringing together all our data and stories into one platform - so that we can all make better decisions.
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The State of European Tech report is back! 🚀 . This year has been the biggest yet for Europe’s tech ecosystem. Help tell your part of this incredible story in the State of European Tech survey. /1 . @SlushHQ @Orrick @SVB_Financial .
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It’s that time of year again! . Help build the largest report on European tech with @atomico + @SlushHQ +@Orrick .📈📊😎.
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Today we published our thoughts on conscious scaling, a workshop that we've started to help founders and teams think about the potential consequences of their technology on society. It's still a work in progress so any and all feedback is welcome.
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So you may have noticed we’ve launched a report today. As per usual, it really is the deepest and most comprehensive investigation into the current state of European technology. It’s a LOT. So we thought we’d break it down into a THREAD (1/10) #soet18
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So proud to announce our partnership today with @KheironMedical who are radically improving imaging-based cancer diagnostics across the globe to give people a better fighting chance against cancer .
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Looking for a long-read for the weekend? .Bookmark this in-depth look at our portfolio company @stripe in @WIRED Amazing to see the company's impact in places such as Egypt
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Congratulations to Sebastian and the @Klarna team on becoming the most valuable private fintech company in Europe! 🚀. When we first invested back in 2012 we already knew this was no ordinary European tech company 😉.
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📣Calling all female founders raising seed or Series A 📣 .Put your name in for the #FemaleFounderChallenge at @VivaTech .We'll be participating with @50inTech @JaneVentureCap @Ventech_VC . ….
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Wishing our colleague @Ljungman the best of luck in his next endeavour! We're excited about working with him in the next phase of his career, as he transitions over the next 6 months back to his early roots investing at seed & here
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The 2018 State of European Tech survey is live! . Lend your voice to Europe's largest tech report compiled by @atomico @SlushHQ @Orrick. with a chance to win tickets to Slush 🎉.
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So happy that we could bring some of our second Atomico Angel Programme cohort together last night. Thanks for joining 👼👼.For more info about the program:
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6 years
We're proud to announce our partnership with @RachCarrell and the @korukids team in London this morning - a platform for finding and managing childcare with the mission of profoundly improving the well-being of the whole family. Find out why here
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📣 Calling all female founders! Atomico and @localglobevc will be hosting office hours for female founders from 9-10:30 am on June 6th in London! Sign up here 👉
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8 years
Good morning Europe. We're live with this year's State of European Tech Report for 2016! Get it here: #InventedHere.
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2 years
The State of European Tech has landed!.✅ 450+ graphs and charts.✅ Thousands of ecosystem survey responses.✅ 50 in-depth expert interviews.✅ 1 report!. Read it here today #SOET
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Congratulations to our portfolio company @OnTruck on their €25M Series B announcement today! Europe's clear leader in the road freight logistics tech space by @sohear via @techcrunch.
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We’re proud to announce our Series A Investment in @Streetbees this morning: Rich insight into communities anywhere in the world at unprecedented scale
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📣 📣 Calling all European female angel investors & syndicates!.@Siftedeu is building a list of female angel investors & syndicates in Europe, in partnership with women in tech community @Femstreet — and they need your help: 📣📣.
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8 years
Our co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström shares his thoughts on the successful @Lilium test flight #uberelevate @Uber.
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5 years
VCs have a vital role to play in building a more diverse and inclusive technology ecosystem. Here is the full list of actions we have taken to help improve things in Europe. This is only the beginning. We welcome feedback and comments.
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“I’ve seen first-hand the impact having female investment partners can have on increasing the amount of investment into female-led companies.” 🦸🏼‍♀️ Partner @sophiabendz talks to @Claire on the impact of having women sit across the table as investors.
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Today we are celebrating one of the boldest bets in our portfolio as @Lilium begins trading on @Nasdaq as $LILM. To these extraordinary founders, & the incredible team you have built, today you raise the bar for European tech & ambition. Congratulations!
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10 years
Check out the full report: Achievement Unlocked But Not Mission Accomplished #whatsnext4eutech #slush15.
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6 years
Celebrating the hard work of some of our colleagues today. Congratulations Ali, Bryce and Camilla 😀
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7 years
We're overwhelmed with the response to the State of European Tech Report - over 100,000 pageviews since launch this morning!
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Less than 24h to go now until we launch the State of European Tech Report 2018 .@SlushHQ in Helsinki - sign up here to receive a link as soon as it's live. We can't wait to see what you make of the data. :
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Our latest fund doubles down on our core strategy: to partner with mission-driven European founders at Series A and beyond. Watch what some of the incredible founders we’ve partnered with are working on: .
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🛫 Liftoff! 🛫.Today is a great day for a better future — in which regional air travel will be fast, electric, quiet, and sustainable: @Lilium announces their intention to list on the Nasdaq through a merger with @qellspac. The transaction values the combined company at $3.3b 1/4.
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Our Investment in @Framer: The Only Platform that Designers and Product Teams Will Ever Need So excited to have @koenbok @jornvandijk & the rest of the world class @Framer team join the Atomico family!.
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Our Investment in @varjodotcom: The Industrialisation of VR has arrived
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Great deep dive from @WiredUK about how the London tech scene became the world's third most important tech ecosystem. We at Atomico are so proud to have been a small part of this story. Here's to an even bigger 10 years ahead 🇬🇧
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Pick up a copy of @thesundaytimes today to see why @olicca @Olifiers @imrejele & @bossastudios are leading the UK’s multi-billion dollar creative games industry revolution by @iamliamkelly
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"Understanding how tech can transform an economy should become an obsession for all governments and sadly it has not been." @ljungman via @Medium #DLD18.
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If you’re at @SlushHQ today catch @nzennstrom @checkwarner of @diversityvc & @GregWilliams718 on the Founder Stage at 11:45am EET (15 mins from now) for the launch of
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🔥IT'S HERE!🔥.The 2020 State of European Tech Survey is now live. Lend your voice to Europe's largest tech report: . compiled by @atomico @SlushHQ @Orrick @SVB_UK
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There's a cap table problem in the Nordics - too many early stage founders give up too much ownership of their business before they even hit Series A, writes Atomico angel and @GetKahoot founder @johanbrand .
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The 2023 State of European Tech Report is LIVE! The highs, lows & data plus the story of EU #AI in the words of those building it @JonasAndrulis @roxannevarza Jarek from @DeepLcom @SarahKerruish @arthurmensch @andreascleve @kbeguir & @OpenAI's Mira Murati
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We're excited to announce we are expanding Europe’s most successful scaling team with @SteveCrossan (Deepmind) & @JPalaniappan (UberEats) via @atomico.
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London friends! 🇬🇧 Come join us @twehmeier @Pip_Jamieson and @checkwarner for a talk about diversity in tech, and what founders can create more diverse and inclusive businesses. A big thanks to @SECONDHOME_IO for hosting 😊 
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The State of European Tech report is 5 years old this year. Here's a quick look at how European tech has changed in those 5 years @SlushHQ @Orrick .
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Love data and tech? Then come join our team in London as a research associate! You’ll help generate and share insights that support our core activities - including investments. (with working link 😉)
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Amazing VC turn out for @localglobevc x @atomico female founder office hours! #futureisfemale
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📣It's almost here! 📣. The 5th annual State of European Tech report, created by Atomico in partnership with @SlushHQ and @Orrick is out on Nov. 21. Sign up here to receive the report when it's released: .
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3 companies that want to help you commute in a flying car: #1 @Lilium via @VentureBeat.
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Niklas swapping founder stories with portfolio companies thanks to our VC friends in Finland - Lifeline Ventures @MakiVentures & @WaveVentures cc @hoopeekoo, @ipaananen @timomj
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We’re so proud of @mikebutcher’s endorsement of the State of European Tech report as “widely considered by the European tech industry to be a reliable annual study” in his coverage of @adaventures that we’ve decided to rebrand the report:
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Congratulations to @graphcoreai. A true gamechanger!
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We're proud to be a part of #MovingForward - a group of VCs committed to diverse, inclusive and harassment-free workplaces, publicly sharing anti-harassment policies & reporting procedures. #MovingForward
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A big welcome to our newest Associate (and Atomico's second proud Canadian 🇨🇦) @nicoleckl .She'll be based in London, covering frontier tech companies. Welcome Nicole!
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We're very excited to announce @nzennstrom will be bringing SoftBank Vision Fund & @brenthoberman to @SlushHQ this year! #slush17
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Congratulations to @Rovio as they take flight today!
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Our Series B investment in @Lilium: The sky’s the limit as clean air taxis set for lift-off
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Sitting at your desk waiting for Gmail and Google Docs to return? 🙄. Use the break to read the 2020 State of European Tech report! 🤗.
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At Atomico we believe that profit and purpose are not mutually exclusive, they're mutually reinforcing 🤜🏼🤛🏼 We must invest in companies that return profits but also create returns for society. That's why we developed our Conscious Scaling framework.
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Why do we talk about blockchain more than we talk about diversity in tech?. @twehmeier puts numbers on the conversation about diversity in tech with help from the amazing team at @Quid .
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Congratulations to our portfolio company @MemphisMeats and welcome @TysonFoods to the clean meat revolution investor coalition! by @chloesorvino for @forbes.
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So you may have noticed we’ve launched a little report called the State of European Tech today. and there's A LOT of data. So we thought we’d break it down into a THREAD (1/8).
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What a better thing to spend the weekend doing than catching up on the state of European tech? 🤓. The report is out now @SlushHQ @OrrickTech #SoET2019.
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A big welcome to our newest Senior Associate @andychelbig. He'll be covering the Nordics, Baltics and enterprise companies 🥳.
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How do we think about the future of work at Atomico? We laid our our thoughts here: .
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So excited to announce our partnership with Spacemaker, who are creating better, more sustainable cities with AI .
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In 2006, only one European country had a $B+ VC-backed tech company. How quickly that has changed.
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Congratulations to the 10 finalists of the @VivaTech female founder challenge. Looking forward to hearing everyone's pitches on stage next week with @50inTech @JaneVentureCap @Ventech_VC @FelixCapital @SparkLabsGlobal @BackstageLondon @EarlybirdVC @DellTechCapital
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For those of you that missed it today: @nzennstrom’s interview of @EmmanuelMacron is now live! .
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The *brand new* State of European Tech: First Look is here! Check out for a snapshot on 2023 so far, incl:. 📊 VC capital invested year to date.🌍 Country breakdown.🌱 Early stage resilience.🤖 Founder and thematic trends .#SOET #superventure
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We are honoured to be invited to Berlin today by the @ObamaFoundation to attend #ObamaTownHall Europe with hundreds of emerging leaders and President @BarackObama to talk about the future of community service across Europe. Watch it live at
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Our 2020 State of European Tech report is now live! . Read on for the cliff notes version of European tech in 2020. (and we'd encourage everyone to scroll down on the main page of the report to see these in awesome animation from @StudioLovelock) .
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Our very own @twehmeier breaks down the numbers behind what makes a thriving tech scene for @Siftedeu
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For years, Europe’s tech scene has struggled to gain respect, overshadowed by giants from the U.S. and China. But the IPO of Sweden’s Spotify may be a game-changer. via @WSJ.
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At Atomico, we’re never happier than when a new Partner comes from within. That makes today a particularly great one as we’re delighted to promote three of our brightest investors to Partner, @TereseKWH @vidiborvc & Luca Eisenstecken. Read more here:
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Atomico has raised $1.24 billion in new funds for Europe’s most gamechanging founders. 🌱$485m Atomico Venture VI invests at series A and some seed.🚀$754m Atomico Growth VI invests from series B to pre-IPO.1/5.
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A huge congratulations to @checkwarner and @Penhelios. Thank you so much for letting us be part of your journey 🙌💛.
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6 years
Over 200 female founders from 39 countries have already applied for the #FemaleFounderChallenge at @VivaTech. We'll be there as part of the jury! Put your name in today 🎉.
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Only 23% of the respondents to our European Tech survey so far have identified as women 😢 . We want to hear from all the amazing, inspiring women who work in the industry. Please fill it out and share! .
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We’re excited to announce Atomico’s fourth Angel Programme cohort this morning, including some new updates to the programme. Featuring @sohear @MRaga_Depop @dorothychou @michaeltefula @DocStefflbauer @FredrikHjelm4 @lewishemens & more
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