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Stéphane Paillard
Covering European fundraising, first-time fund managers, and the founders behind the rounds. Previously built event and community products across the French tech ecosystem; now runs Sesamers and hosts the Sesame Summit.
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Bessemer Venture Partners closes $5.75B, mostly for growth
Seven in ten Bessemer deals are seed or early stage, yet 70% of its new $5.75B goes to growth. Legora's climb from Stockholm shows…
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QuantumLight Closes $500M Fund II – and Algorithmic VC Stops Being an Experiment
Fifteen months after its first fund, Nik Storonsky's QuantumLight has closed an oversubscribed $500M Fund II - deployed by an algorithm, not a partnership.…
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The EIF’s €15B ETCI 2 Is Europe’s Biggest Bet Yet on Fixing the Scaleup Gap
The European Investment Fund's ETCI 2 is a €15B fund of funds built to back around 100 growth-stage VC vehicles and unlock up to…
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