Manchester technology firms raised more than £500m in 2022 to outperform the likes of Rome, Lisbon and Brussels.
The city maintain its crown as the fastest-growing tech hub in the North and one of the biggest outside London and the South East after a record total of £532m, a 50% increase on 2021's figure.
The data, released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, comes after electric vehicle charging network Be.EV secured an investment of up to £110m from Octopus Energy Generation last year.
