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Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off

Publisher description: The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers.

TechCrunch | Sep 10, 2026 | Anna Heim

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U. S. venture capitalists once insisted that international startups move stateside before they would write a check. And just a year after its founding, Furo has locked in enterprise clients such as German rail company Deutsche Bahn. “We’re currently moving faster in Europe than if we’d have stayed in the U. S. ,” Furo co-founder Lena Sophia Voß said. Pictured from left to right: Furo co-founders Lena Sophia Voß, Simon Wittner, and Leonie Wagner.

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