Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast
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Get to know the brightest and boldest names in European tech with Sifted’s weekly podcast, hosted by Amy Lewin. She interviews the founders, operators and investors building Europe’s most exciting startups and, in conversation with Sifted’s expert journalists, pulls back the curtain on the most intriguing companies they’ve been reporting on.
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Tiny VC partner Philipp Moehring on when to take money off the table
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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OpenAI's Laura Modiano on hackathons, Lovable and how startups can partner with the tech giant
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Meet the 100 fastest-growing startups in the UK and Ireland
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Hélène Huby, CEO of The Exploration Company: 'Only the crazy people change the world'
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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SaaSpocalypse: What’s next for Europe’s SaaS scaleups and investors?
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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What are world models — and are they Europe’s winning AI bet?
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Judith Dada, general partner at Visionaries Club: 'I'm deeply troubled by what lies ahead for Europe'
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Creandum’s VP of talent Michelle Coventry: What it’s like being at the other end of Anton Osika’s WhatsApps
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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The 26 startups to watch in 2026 — plus cities, sectors and investors on the up
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Endeavor CEO Linda Rottenberg: ‘Talent is everywhere. Opportunity and capital are not’
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Is Europe’s AI infrastructure build-out heading for a gigafactory-style bust?
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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2026: The year the AI bubble bursts?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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NATO Innovation Fund chair Fiona Murray: ‘The threat from Russia is extremely real’
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Bolt founder and Klarna board member Markus Villig on why Europe is sleepwalking into a 'disaster' on self-driving cars and physical AI
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan: “The role I have is the best job going”
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Nothing founder Carl Pei: ‘If you’re serious about hardware, you should spend time in China’
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The State of European Tech 2025: Top talent, failing better and scaling faster
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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How to stop the UK startup exodus, with entrepreneur and government advisor Alex Depledge
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Can Europe build AI champions?
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Erin Platts on SVB collapse and new role at Octopus Ventures: ‘There will always be churn’
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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How to build a $100bn company in Europe, with Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt: 'The AI bubble is a good thing'
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Why Vinted moved into venture, with Milda Jasaitė
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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“90% of drone startups will fail in five years”: Europe's defence tech beyond drones
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Sequoia VP talent Zoe Hewitt on what star talent looks like in 2025
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Can anything stop Synthesia?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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'Reverse acquihires are incredibly dangerous': Tech lawyer Mike Turner
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Lovable’s Anton Osika on churn, calculating ARR and his newfound celebrity status
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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How AI is transforming startups — for better or worse
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Quantum Systems CEO Florian Seibel: ‘Having a dictator has advantages’
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Meet Europe’s ‘other’ defence tech unicorn: Tekever
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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‘We don’t need to raise capital to grow’: Factorial CEO Jordi Romero
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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The secret behind Revolut's product blitz
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen: "Europe doesn't need to become Silicon Valley"
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Is Mistral worth $6bn?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The days of making easy money from coding are over, says former Stripe UK CTO turned founder Emma Burrows
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Helsing: Challenges ahead for the defence tech unicorn
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Tackling financial fraud with AI: Qonto CEO Alexandre Prot
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga: ‘Vinted is not a company that’s going to exit’
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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'Defence is where we can play all our superpowers': Visionaries Club’s Rob Lacher
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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What's so special about Lovable?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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'We haven’t made a pitch deck since we started the company': Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
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May 22, 2025 |
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How to make partner in less than three years: Cherry Ventures' Dinika Mahtani
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Three exits and a failure: Motorway's Tom Leathes on how to disrupt big industries
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Nord's Tomas Okmanas on why he had to launch an AI startup
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The 101 of angel investing with Jenny Tooth
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list
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May 24, 2024 |
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Sophia Bendz on why Spotify's Daniel Ek hired people with "no track record"
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Why Andreessen Horowitz is betting big on crypto in Europe with Sriram Krishnan
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Hussein Kanji from Hoxton Ventures on how just much he made from investing in Deliveroo and Darktrace
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Glovo's Oscar Pierre on the gig economy and building scaleups in Southern Europe
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Station F’s and Sequoia’s Roxanne Varza on how to stop tech companies moving to the US
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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“We’ve made more money than we ever dreamed of”: RELEX Solutions’s Johanna Småros
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Why is Stability AI changing its business model?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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More layoffs at European scaleups as the tech slowdown bites
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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HSBC’s Sonya Iovieno on undisclosed down rounds, startups trimming headcount and SVB’s collapse
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Some tech workers are now earning $400k straight out of uni. Why?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Aleph Alpha raises one of Europe's biggest AI rounds, but is all as it seems?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Klarna’s workers are going on strike as the company cuts more roles
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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France’s big plan for startups
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Babylon: how it all went so wrong
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Interview: Wayve’s Alex Kendall on autonomous vehicles, embodied AI and Elon Musk's U-turns
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Stripe’s John Collison on launching his $50bn business at the age of 19 — Sifted Summit special
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Can French AI startup Mistral ever compete with Big Tech?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Interview: Seedcamp’s Reshma Sohoni on bunker mentality during a downturn
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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European valuations tumble as the great startup fire sale begins
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Interview: ‘The age of AI resembles the age of DaVinci’ — Builder.AI’s Sachin Duggal on the need for polymaths in machine learning
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Klarna is back in black after a tough 2022
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Getir is laying off 2,500 employees to try and survive
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Founder of a top European VC firm accused of sexual harassment
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Which buyer can save Babylon from bankruptcy?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Hopin: how a $7bn startup fell down in a heap
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why did VCs' favourite e-bike go bankrupt?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Interview: Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge on crisis talks at Monzo and building a reproductive healthcare company
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Inside Paris's booming AI scene
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Spotify founder’s new startup finally comes out of stealth with €60m investment
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Millions in shareholder value wiped out as Babylon delists
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Tony Blair on his vision for an AI-powered Britain
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Interview: Chloe Smith MP on unlocking pension funds for tech investment
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Why has Checkout.com slashed its own valuation again?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Why is Typeform losing market share?
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Interview: Blossom capital’s Ophelia Brown on why crypto isn’t dying, but the UK tech sector might be
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May 25, 2023 |
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What’s behind the senior employee exodus at Revolut?
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May 18, 2023 |
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Amazon Alexa's creator drops hints about new AI startup
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May 11, 2023 |
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New rules for the London Stock Exchange to combat "Brexit idiocy"
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May 04, 2023 |
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Stability AI leaked pitch deck raises questions over Series A
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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End of the road for Cazoo? Details on the company's $630m debt burden
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Checkout.com sees exec exodus while laying off staff “by stealth"
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Interview: Layoffs and large language models in healthcare with Kry’s Johannes Schildt
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The man trying to stop the AI apocalypse
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Interview: Seven-figure salaries and AI sovereignty, with Entrepreneur First's Matt Clifford
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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How the government saved SVB UK
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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In conversation with Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Inside Klarna’s $1bn annual loss — its biggest ever
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Interview: Transferwise founder Taavet Hinrikus on going over to the VC dark side
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Can this Bill Gates-backed electric plane really stay in the air?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Ukraine special: Founders on the frontline
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Meet Europe’s biggest competitor to OpenAI
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Entrepreneurs are outraged as Tech Nation shuts down after losing government support, leaving talent visa scheme in limbo
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Interview: Will speedy grocery ever be profitable? Delivery Hero’s Milena Lazarevska, VP of quick commerce
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Britishvolt has gone bust: what went so wrong?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The former spy who's helping VCs interrogate founders
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Generative AI: Why are investors getting so excited?
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Interview: Pleo CTO Meri Williams on Elon Musk, unsustainable hiring and diversity in tech
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Checkout.com is no longer Europe’s most valuable startup
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Gorillas investors are having to stump up $100m to have their company bought
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Scammers are increasingly targeting Monzo, Revolut and Starling customers. Why?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Interview: Danny Rimer from Index Ventures on crypto, pay rises and investing in Figma
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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FTX fallout hits Europe: Starling clamps down on crypto
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Interview: Ready Player Me's Timmu Tõke on the metaverse, identity and advice for Mark Zuckerberg
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Uncovering the Spotify founder's secretive new startup
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Why has Kry laid off 300 more employees?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Will Rishi Sunak be good for UK tech?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Interview: EQT Growth partner Carolina Brochado on the advice she's giving portfolio companies now and the craziest thing she did to win a deal (which she didn’t ultimately win)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Gorillas is getting sold at a slashed valuation — who's losing the most money?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Zuckerberg's metaverse plans get slammed by Herman Narula of Improbable (Live at the Sifted Summit)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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A breakthrough for self-driving cars, but will regulators spoil the party?
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Klarna job losses climb to 800 in 2022 as the company cuts more roles
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Mass layoffs at Cazoo as the company shuts down its EU operations
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Why did Snap shut down the French social app Zenly?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The mystery of the vanishing investor
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Is Babylon going to be booted off the New York Stock Exhange?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Why Robinhood tanked a crypto app’s valuation to re-enter the UK
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Klarna in crisis? Why normal folks are still investing
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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\Gorillas: €60m burn rate, big cash bailouts and a looming downround
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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\The next Tesla: could this startup birth the next era of Musk rivals?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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\Should your boss pay your energy bills?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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\Raids and possible “cartels”: Inside the latest Glovo drama
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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\Gorillas’ latest scandal — will their riders ever get paid?
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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\The EU's big new plan for tech innovation
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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\From near death to an $80m Series E: How Omio survived
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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\Can N26 be trusted? A rare interview with the founder
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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\Will Gorillas survive this week’s C-suite exodus?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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S2 E14 \Customer scandal surrounds elite event company Pollen
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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S2 E13 \Mass layoffs are here — who's been hit?
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May 26, 2022 |
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S2 E12 \The billionaire betting big on psychedelics
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May 19, 2022 |
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S2 E11 \Tech stocks are crashing — what does it mean for startups?
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May 12, 2022 |
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S2 E10 \Wise, Bolt and Skype: How Estonia churns out unicorns
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May 05, 2022 |
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S2 E9 \The fintech targeting… seafarers?
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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S2 E8 \VC horror stories
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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S2 E7 \The NFT bros losing thousands on ape scams
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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S2 EP6 \The metaverse sector actually making money
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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S2 EP5 \Claims of toxicity at Glovo: How ‘good vibes’ turned into a ‘nightmare’
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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S2 EP4 \Is speedy delivery startup Getir really worth $11.8bn?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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S2 EP3 \Trouble in bug town: How Brexit squished a startup industry
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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S2 EP2 \International Women's Week and human stories from Ukraine
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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S2 EP1 \In Ukraine, business isn’t as usual
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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S1 EP4 \Audio erotica and the orgasm gap
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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S1 EP3 \Neobanks and millennial millionaires
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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S1 EP2 \Psychedelics and startup spiritualism
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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S1 EP1 \Drones and nappy cream
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Nov 18, 2021 |