Afternoon all. European tech is moving so fast right now, it might be hard to keep up, but here's a quick tally: VC investment has passed €30B so far in 2021. Already the biggest H1 on record (and by some distance).

Made in Morocco

A Casablanca-based proptech that raised $10M at a $136M valuation in March. Y Combinator alumni building a B2B marketplace with Seed capital from Battery Ventures. And a startup saving our oceans with AI-powered UAVs in Rabat.

A young generation of Moroccan startups are doing some cool stuff. Now for the first time we've mapped the entire ecosystem. Morocco joins a global network of startup ecosystems powered by Dealroom. Initiated La French Tech Morocco, the new dedicated startup database is the first of its kind on the continent.

Find things like: 

• The two Moroccan startups valued over €75M
• 44 startups founded since 2019
• Record number of deals in 2020

Dive into verticals

Our curated content is specially designed to help you (easily) dive into sub-sectors and niches within the global startup ecosystem, and it's now even easier to get started.

Quickly navigate to dedicated sector-lens content and insights curated by the Dealroom Intelligence Unit, in verticals like Healthtech, Impact and Deep tech. From Deep tech, dive into spinouts, understand last-mile in-space logistics, computer vision for warehouse automation, the fastest-growing AR/VR startups in Europe and much (much) more. 

Also

🎓 Help level the playing field. Contribute to the open database for university spinouts, a new initiative from Air Street Capital - spinout.fyi. 

🔐 UK crypto custody startup Copper, raised $50m Series B this week, bringing 2021's running total for crypto custodians (institutional wallets) to €1.6B, up from 700M in all 2020.

🙏 Help close the diversity data gap.

🛍 Back Market lève 276 millions et devient une licorne - Les Echos, avec les données de Dealroom.

⚙️ “Dealroom is probably the most comprehensive European database of its kind.” Ben Smith on why InReach Ventures use the Dealroom API.

🦄 UK Challenges Silicon Valley With New Generation Of Tech Unicorns - Forbes, with Dealroom data

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