Hello Sifted reader,

It’s International Women’s Day, as I’m sure endless emails have been pre-warning you for the past week.

And so, for those of you working today (or those of you not — god bless you Berlin), we’ve got a special line up:

Europe’s leading female VCs each nominate a female investor they think is a rising star
Fresh data on the gender pay gap at startups
The one and only crib sheet on diversity data you’ll ever need
Brunch with Monzo COO Sujata Bhatia
Our newly-updated list of *all* the women VC partners in Europe (the list is now longer, you’ll be pleased to hear).

Please bookmark the crib sheet, find out what the gender pay gap is at your startup — and do what you can to make all of the numbers we’re sharing today a little less grim next year.

— Amy Lewin, Sifted editor

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🎬 Matterwave closes €75m of its new €130m fund. The Munich-based VC will back 20-25 European industrial deeptech startups with initial ticket sizes between €1m-4m.

🤖 Stability AI plans to raise at $4bn valuation. The parent company of AI image generator Stable Diffusion is reportedly set to raise fresh funds — though the news isn't officially public yet, and could still change. Sifted sat down with Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque in January this year.

🌟 Europe's top female VCs share their rising stars to watch.

☕️ Brunch with Monzo COO Sujata Bhatia. From speed-dating the CEO with an eight-hour time difference to the neobank's plans for the future, Sujata sits down to breakfast with fintech reporter Amy O'Brien to reveal (almost) all.

👩‍💻 All of the data you need on diversity (or lack thereof) in European tech.

📊 5 charts on how the Nordic tech scene is doing right now.

💰 350+ female VC partners in Europe. Our bumper list has had an update — have we missed anyone? Let us know here.

A graph showing the gender pay gap at post-IPO, Series B+ and pre-Series A startups.

😬 European tech's gender pay gap is the worst at early-stage. That's according to analysis by salary benchmarking platform Ravio — here's the state of play from pre-seed to IPO, which countries are the worst offenders and which departments need to do better.

🧐 Founders beware of the changing term sheet tides. In the face of an economic downturn, term sheets have become less founder-friendly. Here's what's going on, and what to look out for.

Where to place your bets in climate tech

With a record $15bn in funding last year, climate tech is the sector topping the European investment agenda. On March 15 experts from Climentum Capital, Climate Policy Radar, EDB Singapore and SALT Climate Tech will reveal where investors are unloading their dry powder and share forecasts for the future of the sector.

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💰 Series B+

Noema Pharma, a techbio startup tackling central nervous system disorders, has raised CHF103m (€103.5m).

💰 Series A

Germany's Cellbox Solutions, which is developing portable live cell incubators for biological research, has raised €6.5m.
Danu Sports, an Ireland-based startup developing wearable sports analytic technology, has raised €3.5m.

💰 Pre-seed / seed

The UK's Unitary, which uses AI to assess the harmful content risk of posts uploaded to social media, has raised $8m in additional seed funding led by Taavet Hinrikus and Ian Hogarth's Plural.
France-based Elyn, which helps merchants offer try-before-you-buy options for online purchases, has raised a €2.5m pre-seed round led by Sequoia Arc and Headline.
Denmark's Chromologics, a biotech developing natural food colourants, has raised €7.1m in seed funding.
Home furnishings platform ufurnish.com, based in the UK, has raised £3.4m in additional seed funding — 30% of the investors were women.
Germany-based trawa, which is building a digital renewable energy provider for businesses, has secured €2.4m in a pre-seed round led by Speedinvest and Magnetic.