Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

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From 2024 on we'll be bringing you monthly long-form interviews with the biggest names in European startups. We'll hear from the founders, operators and investors behind the continent's biggest tech companies, to learn what makes them tick and what they've learnt as they've built their businesses.


Episode Date
Sophia Bendz on why Spotify's Daniel Ek hired people with "no track record"
Apr 19, 2024
Why Andreesen Horowitz is betting big on crypto in Europe with Sriram Krishnan
Mar 26, 2024
Hussein Kanji from Hoxton Ventures on how just much he made from investing in Deliveroo and Darktrace
Feb 29, 2024
Glovo's Oscar Pierre on the gig economy and building scaleups in Southern Europe
Feb 15, 2024
Station F’s and Sequoia’s Roxanne Varza on how to stop tech companies moving to the US
Feb 09, 2024
“We’ve made more money than we ever dreamed of”: RELEX Solutions’s Johanna Småros
Dec 18, 2023
Why is Stability AI changing its business model?
Dec 07, 2023
More layoffs at European scaleups as the tech slowdown bites
Nov 30, 2023
HSBC’s Sonya Iovieno on undisclosed down rounds, startups trimming headcount and SVB’s collapse
Nov 23, 2023
Some tech workers are now earning $400k straight out of uni. Why?
Nov 16, 2023
Aleph Alpha raises one of Europe's biggest AI rounds, but is all as it seems?
Nov 09, 2023
Klarna’s workers are going on strike as the company cuts more roles
Nov 02, 2023
France’s big plan for startups
Oct 26, 2023
Babylon: how it all went so wrong
Oct 19, 2023
Interview: Wayve’s Alex Kendall on autonomous vehicles, embodied AI and Elon Musk's U-turns
Oct 12, 2023
Stripe’s John Collison on launching his $50bn business at the age of 19 — Sifted Summit special
Oct 05, 2023
Can French AI startup Mistral ever compete with Big Tech?
Sep 28, 2023
Interview: Seedcamp’s Reshma Sohoni on bunker mentality during a downturn
Sep 21, 2023
European valuations tumble as the great startup fire sale begins
Sep 14, 2023
Interview: ‘The age of AI resembles the age of DaVinci’ — Builder.AI’s Sachin Duggal on the need for polymaths in machine learning
Sep 07, 2023
Klarna is back in black after a tough 2022
Aug 31, 2023
Getir is laying off 2,500 employees to try and survive
Aug 24, 2023
Founder of a top European VC firm accused of sexual harassment
Aug 17, 2023
Which buyer can save Babylon from bankruptcy?
Aug 10, 2023
Hopin: how a $7bn startup fell down in a heap
Aug 03, 2023
Why did VCs' favourite e-bike go bankrupt?
Jul 27, 2023
Interview: Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge on crisis talks at Monzo and building a reproductive healthcare company
Jul 20, 2023
Inside Paris's booming AI scene
Jul 13, 2023
Spotify founder’s new startup finally comes out of stealth with €60m investment
Jul 06, 2023
Millions in shareholder value wiped out as Babylon delists
Jun 29, 2023
Tony Blair on his vision for an AI-powered Britain
Jun 22, 2023
Interview: Chloe Smith MP on unlocking pension funds for tech investment
Jun 15, 2023
Why has Checkout.com slashed its own valuation again?
Jun 08, 2023
Why is Typeform losing market share?
Jun 01, 2023
Interview: Blossom capital’s Ophelia Brown on why crypto isn’t dying, but the UK tech sector might be
May 25, 2023
What’s behind the senior employee exodus at Revolut?
May 18, 2023
Amazon Alexa's creator drops hints about new AI startup
May 11, 2023
New rules for the London Stock Exchange to combat "Brexit idiocy"
May 04, 2023
Stability AI leaked pitch deck raises questions over Series A
Apr 27, 2023
End of the road for Cazoo? Details on the company's $630m debt burden
Apr 20, 2023
Checkout.com sees exec exodus while laying off staff “by stealth"
Apr 13, 2023
Interview: Layoffs and large language models in healthcare with Kry’s Johannes Schildt
Apr 06, 2023
The man trying to stop the AI apocalypse
Mar 30, 2023
Interview: Seven-figure salaries and AI sovereignty, with Entrepreneur First's Matt Clifford
Mar 23, 2023
How the government saved SVB UK
Mar 16, 2023
In conversation with Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Mar 09, 2023
Inside Klarna’s $1bn annual loss — its biggest ever
Mar 02, 2023
Interview: Transferwise founder Taavet Hinrikus on going over to the VC dark side
Feb 23, 2023
Can this Bill Gates-backed electric plane really stay in the air?
Feb 16, 2023
Ukraine special: Founders on the frontline
Feb 13, 2023
Meet Europe’s biggest competitor to OpenAI
Feb 09, 2023
Entrepreneurs are outraged as Tech Nation shuts down after losing government support, leaving talent visa scheme in limbo
Feb 02, 2023
Interview: Will speedy grocery ever be profitable? Delivery Hero’s Milena Lazarevska, VP of quick commerce
Jan 26, 2023
Britishvolt has gone bust: what went so wrong?
Jan 19, 2023
The former spy who's helping VCs interrogate founders
Jan 12, 2023
Generative AI: Why are investors getting so excited?
Jan 05, 2023
Interview: Pleo CTO Meri Williams on Elon Musk, unsustainable hiring and diversity in tech
Dec 22, 2022
Checkout.com is no longer Europe’s most valuable startup
Dec 15, 2022
Gorillas investors are having to stump up $100m to have their company bought
Dec 07, 2022
Scammers are increasingly targeting Monzo, Revolut and Starling customers. Why?
Dec 01, 2022
Interview: Danny Rimer from Index Ventures on crypto, pay rises and investing in Figma
Nov 29, 2022
FTX fallout hits Europe: Starling clamps down on crypto
Nov 24, 2022
Interview: Ready Player Me's Timmu Tõke on the metaverse, identity and advice for Mark Zuckerberg
Nov 17, 2022
Uncovering the Spotify founder's secretive new startup
Nov 10, 2022
Why has Kry laid off 300 more employees?
Nov 03, 2022
Will Rishi Sunak be good for UK tech?
Oct 27, 2022
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)
Oct 21, 2022
Gorillas is getting sold at a slashed valuation — who's losing the most money?
Oct 13, 2022
Zuckerberg's metaverse plans get slammed by Herman Narula of Improbable (Live at the Sifted Summit)
Oct 06, 2022
A breakthrough for self-driving cars, but will regulators spoil the party?
Sep 30, 2022
Klarna job losses climb to 800 in 2022 as the company cuts more roles
Sep 22, 2022
Mass layoffs at Cazoo as the company shuts down its EU operations
Sep 15, 2022
Why did Snap shut down the French social app Zenly?
Sep 08, 2022
The mystery of the vanishing investor
Sep 01, 2022
Is Babylon going to be booted off the New York Stock Exhange?
Aug 25, 2022
Why Robinhood tanked a crypto app’s valuation to re-enter the UK
Aug 18, 2022
Klarna in crisis? Why normal folks are still investing
Aug 11, 2022
\Gorillas: €60m burn rate, big cash bailouts and a looming downround
Aug 04, 2022
\The next Tesla: could this startup birth the next era of Musk rivals?
Jul 28, 2022
\Should your boss pay your energy bills?
Jul 21, 2022
\Raids and possible “cartels”: Inside the latest Glovo drama
Jul 14, 2022
\Gorillas’ latest scandal — will their riders ever get paid?
Jul 07, 2022
\The EU's big new plan for tech innovation
Jun 30, 2022
\From near death to an $80m Series E: How Omio survived
Jun 23, 2022
\Can N26 be trusted? A rare interview with the founder
Jun 17, 2022
\Will Gorillas survive this week’s C-suite exodus?
Jun 09, 2022
S2 E14 \Customer scandal surrounds elite event company Pollen
Jun 02, 2022
S2 E13 \Mass layoffs are here — who's been hit?
May 26, 2022
S2 E12 \The billionaire betting big on psychedelics
May 19, 2022
S2 E11 \Tech stocks are crashing — what does it mean for startups?
May 12, 2022
S2 E10 \Wise, Bolt and Skype: How Estonia churns out unicorns
May 05, 2022
S2 E9 \The fintech targeting… seafarers?
Apr 28, 2022
S2 E8 \VC horror stories
Apr 21, 2022
S2 E7 \The NFT bros losing thousands on ape scams
Apr 14, 2022
S2 EP6 \The metaverse sector actually making money
Apr 07, 2022
S2 EP5 \Claims of toxicity at Glovo: How ‘good vibes’ turned into a ‘nightmare’
Mar 31, 2022
S2 EP4 \Is speedy delivery startup Getir really worth $11.8bn?
Mar 24, 2022
S2 EP3 \Trouble in bug town: How Brexit squished a startup industry
Mar 17, 2022
S2 EP2 \International Women's Week and human stories from Ukraine
Mar 11, 2022
S2 EP1 \In Ukraine, business isn’t as usual
Mar 03, 2022
S1 EP4 \Audio erotica and the orgasm gap
Dec 09, 2021
S1 EP3 \Neobanks and millennial millionaires
Dec 02, 2021
S1 EP2 \Psychedelics and startup spiritualism
Nov 25, 2021
S1 EP1 \Drones and nappy cream
Nov 18, 2021