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Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast — 181 episodes
Does Europe have a voice in AI safety?
Is Mistral's monster fundraise a win for European sovereignty?
Why Legora isn't building its own model
Are the Nordics really on fire?
Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka: ‘We're a few quarters away from $1bn ARR’
European fintech has a culture problem
VCs are taking on operator roles. Why?
Inside Mistral’s monster fundraise and Palantir-like repositioning
Yann LeCun launched a new VC fund — then quit. What happened?
Liz Kendall: ‘I’d love to stay as UK tech secretary’
Should the EU block the UK from its €5bn superfund?
Brent Hoberman on UK tech post-Starmer: 'Are we going to tax everyone to high hell?'
What the Anthropic shutdown means for Europe
Newton Venture Program CEO Anu Adebajo on Europe’s ‘zombie funds’
‘Built in Europe’: Can Balderton’s new campaign spark Europe’s vibe shift?
Carissa Véliz on the dangers of predictive AI
EQT has won the EU's €5bn superfund. Now what?
James Wise on why the Sovereign AI Unit criticism is wrong – and the one company he wishes he’d backed
Anthropic vs European AI
Hertility CEO Helen O’Neill on building a foundational model for women’s health
Wolt CEO and Slush chair Marianne Vikkula on building a superapp, leadership lessons and Slush’s secret sauce
Could Europe become a world leader in robotics?
Project Europe CEO Kitty Mayo: ‘Harry Stebbings is like our head of state and I’m prime minister’
Tiny VC partner Philipp Moehring on when to take money off the table
OpenAI's Laura Modiano on hackathons, Lovable and how startups can partner with the tech giant
Meet the 100 fastest-growing startups in the UK and Ireland
Hélène Huby, CEO of The Exploration Company: 'Only the crazy people change the world'
SaaSpocalypse: What’s next for Europe’s SaaS scaleups and investors?
What are world models — and are they Europe’s winning AI bet?
Judith Dada, general partner at Visionaries Club: 'I'm deeply troubled by what lies ahead for Europe'
Creandum’s VP of talent Michelle Coventry: What it’s like being at the other end of Anton Osika’s WhatsApps
The 26 startups to watch in 2026 — plus cities, sectors and investors on the up
Endeavor CEO Linda Rottenberg: ‘Talent is everywhere. Opportunity and capital are not’
Is Europe’s AI infrastructure build-out heading for a gigafactory-style bust?
2026: The year the AI bubble bursts?
NATO Innovation Fund chair Fiona Murray: ‘The threat from Russia is extremely real’
Bolt founder and Klarna board member Markus Villig on why Europe is sleepwalking into a 'disaster' on self-driving cars and physical AI
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan: “The role I have is the best job going”
Nothing founder Carl Pei: ‘If you’re serious about hardware, you should spend time in China’
The State of European Tech 2025: Top talent, failing better and scaling faster
How to stop the UK startup exodus, with entrepreneur and government advisor Alex Depledge
Can Europe build AI champions?
Erin Platts on SVB collapse and new role at Octopus Ventures: ‘There will always be churn’
How to build a $100bn company in Europe, with Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt: 'The AI bubble is a good thing'
Why Vinted moved into venture, with Milda Jasaitė
“90% of drone startups will fail in five years”: Europe's defence tech beyond drones
Sequoia VP talent Zoe Hewitt on what star talent looks like in 2025
Can anything stop Synthesia?
'Reverse acquihires are incredibly dangerous': Tech lawyer Mike Turner
Lovable’s Anton Osika on churn, calculating ARR and his newfound celebrity status
How AI is transforming startups — for better or worse
Quantum Systems CEO Florian Seibel: ‘Having a dictator has advantages’
Meet Europe’s ‘other’ defence tech unicorn: Tekever
‘We don’t need to raise capital to grow’: Factorial CEO Jordi Romero
The secret behind Revolut's product blitz
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen: "Europe doesn't need to become Silicon Valley"
Is Mistral worth $6bn?
The days of making easy money from coding are over, says former Stripe UK CTO turned founder Emma Burrows
Helsing: Challenges ahead for the defence tech unicorn
Tackling financial fraud with AI: Qonto CEO Alexandre Prot
Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga: ‘Vinted is not a company that’s going to exit’
'Defence is where we can play all our superpowers': Visionaries Club’s Rob Lacher
What's so special about Lovable?
'We haven’t made a pitch deck since we started the company': Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
How to make partner in less than three years: Cherry Ventures' Dinika Mahtani
Three exits and a failure: Motorway's Tom Leathes on how to disrupt big industries
Nord's Tomas Okmanas on why he had to launch an AI startup
The 101 of angel investing with Jenny Tooth
Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy
Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech
General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas
Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value
Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency
Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall
DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won
Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list
Sophia Bendz on why Spotify's Daniel Ek hired people with "no track record"
Why Andreessen Horowitz is betting big on crypto in Europe with Sriram Krishnan
Hussein Kanji from Hoxton Ventures on how just much he made from investing in Deliveroo and Darktrace
Glovo's Oscar Pierre on the gig economy and building scaleups in Southern Europe
Station F’s and Sequoia’s Roxanne Varza on how to stop tech companies moving to the US
“We’ve made more money than we ever dreamed of”: RELEX Solutions’s Johanna Småros
Why is Stability AI changing its business model?
More layoffs at European scaleups as the tech slowdown bites
HSBC’s Sonya Iovieno on undisclosed down rounds, startups trimming headcount and SVB’s collapse
Some tech workers are now earning $400k straight out of uni. Why?
Aleph Alpha raises one of Europe's biggest AI rounds, but is all as it seems?
Klarna’s workers are going on strike as the company cuts more roles
France’s big plan for startups
Babylon: how it all went so wrong
Interview: Wayve’s Alex Kendall on autonomous vehicles, embodied AI and Elon Musk's U-turns
Stripe’s John Collison on launching his $50bn business at the age of 19 — Sifted Summit special
Can French AI startup Mistral ever compete with Big Tech?
Interview: Seedcamp’s Reshma Sohoni on bunker mentality during a downturn
European valuations tumble as the great startup fire sale begins
Interview: ‘The age of AI resembles the age of DaVinci’ — Builder.AI’s Sachin Duggal on the need for polymaths in machine learning
Klarna is back in black after a tough 2022
Getir is laying off 2,500 employees to try and survive
Founder of a top European VC firm accused of sexual harassment
Which buyer can save Babylon from bankruptcy?
Hopin: how a $7bn startup fell down in a heap
Why did VCs' favourite e-bike go bankrupt?
Interview: Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge on crisis talks at Monzo and building a reproductive healthcare company
Inside Paris's booming AI scene
Spotify founder’s new startup finally comes out of stealth with €60m investment
Millions in shareholder value wiped out as Babylon delists
Tony Blair on his vision for an AI-powered Britain
Interview: Chloe Smith MP on unlocking pension funds for tech investment
Why has Checkout.com slashed its own valuation again?
Why is Typeform losing market share?
Interview: Blossom capital’s Ophelia Brown on why crypto isn’t dying, but the UK tech sector might be
What’s behind the senior employee exodus at Revolut?
Amazon Alexa's creator drops hints about new AI startup
New rules for the London Stock Exchange to combat "Brexit idiocy"
Stability AI leaked pitch deck raises questions over Series A
End of the road for Cazoo? Details on the company's $630m debt burden
Checkout.com sees exec exodus while laying off staff “by stealth"
Interview: Layoffs and large language models in healthcare with Kry’s Johannes Schildt
The man trying to stop the AI apocalypse
Interview: Seven-figure salaries and AI sovereignty, with Entrepreneur First's Matt Clifford
How the government saved SVB UK
In conversation with Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Inside Klarna’s $1bn annual loss — its biggest ever
Interview: Transferwise founder Taavet Hinrikus on going over to the VC dark side
Can this Bill Gates-backed electric plane really stay in the air?
Ukraine special: Founders on the frontline
Meet Europe’s biggest competitor to OpenAI
Entrepreneurs are outraged as Tech Nation shuts down after losing government support, leaving talent visa scheme in limbo
Interview: Will speedy grocery ever be profitable? Delivery Hero’s Milena Lazarevska, VP of quick commerce
Britishvolt has gone bust: what went so wrong?
The former spy who's helping VCs interrogate founders
Generative AI: Why are investors getting so excited?
Interview: Pleo CTO Meri Williams on Elon Musk, unsustainable hiring and diversity in tech
Checkout.com is no longer Europe’s most valuable startup
Gorillas investors are having to stump up $100m to have their company bought
Scammers are increasingly targeting Monzo, Revolut and Starling customers. Why?
Interview: Danny Rimer from Index Ventures on crypto, pay rises and investing in Figma
FTX fallout hits Europe: Starling clamps down on crypto
Interview: Ready Player Me's Timmu Tõke on the metaverse, identity and advice for Mark Zuckerberg
Uncovering the Spotify founder's secretive new startup
Why has Kry laid off 300 more employees?
Will Rishi Sunak be good for UK tech?
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)
Gorillas is getting sold at a slashed valuation — who's losing the most money?
Zuckerberg's metaverse plans get slammed by Herman Narula of Improbable (Live at the Sifted Summit)
A breakthrough for self-driving cars, but will regulators spoil the party?
Klarna job losses climb to 800 in 2022 as the company cuts more roles
Mass layoffs at Cazoo as the company shuts down its EU operations
Why did Snap shut down the French social app Zenly?
The mystery of the vanishing investor
Is Babylon going to be booted off the New York Stock Exhange?
Why Robinhood tanked a crypto app’s valuation to re-enter the UK
Klarna in crisis? Why normal folks are still investing
\Gorillas: €60m burn rate, big cash bailouts and a looming downround
\The next Tesla: could this startup birth the next era of Musk rivals?
\Should your boss pay your energy bills?
\Raids and possible “cartels”: Inside the latest Glovo drama
\Gorillas’ latest scandal — will their riders ever get paid?
\The EU's big new plan for tech innovation
\From near death to an $80m Series E: How Omio survived
\Can N26 be trusted? A rare interview with the founder
\Will Gorillas survive this week’s C-suite exodus?
S2 E14 \Customer scandal surrounds elite event company Pollen
S2 E13 \Mass layoffs are here — who's been hit?
S2 E12 \The billionaire betting big on psychedelics
S2 E11 \Tech stocks are crashing — what does it mean for startups?
S2 E10 \Wise, Bolt and Skype: How Estonia churns out unicorns
S2 E9 \The fintech targeting… seafarers?
S2 E8 \VC horror stories
S2 E7 \The NFT bros losing thousands on ape scams
S2 EP6 \The metaverse sector actually making money
S2 EP5 \Claims of toxicity at Glovo: How ‘good vibes’ turned into a ‘nightmare’
S2 EP4 \Is speedy delivery startup Getir really worth $11.8bn?
S2 EP3 \Trouble in bug town: How Brexit squished a startup industry
S2 EP2 \International Women's Week and human stories from Ukraine
S2 EP1 \In Ukraine, business isn’t as usual
S1 EP4 \Audio erotica and the orgasm gap
S1 EP3 \Neobanks and millennial millionaires
S1 EP2 \Psychedelics and startup spiritualism
S1 EP1 \Drones and nappy cream