Punchy interview with LocalGlobe's Saul Klein on the meh-ness of unicorns, the importance of ARR and the need for UK institutional investors to get serious about tech (see below) sifted.eu/articles/sau... @amyrlewin.bsky.social @sifted.eu

Scoop: Long-running tech event TNW is shutting down, along with the media arm of its business sifted.eu/articles/the...

New: Baillie Gifford writes up investment in Bending Spoons by 89%, as the Italian app developer and acquirer raises further funding for acquisitions sifted.eu/articles/bai...

Meet the UK and Ireland’s fastest-growing startups in 2025! 🇬🇧 We're back with our second annual Sifted 100: UK & Ireland Leaderboard, in partnership with Marriott Harrison — a ranking of the 100 fastest-growing startups by revenue growth. See the rising stars: sifted.eu/intelligence...

Founders: why you've got to be more selfish sifted.eu/articles/fou...

New: Octopus Energy has recorded its second year of profitability, despite a dip in revenues. Its tech arm, Kraken (which files separate accounts) saw profits increase 480%. sifted.eu/articles/oct...

A16z has ramped up its scout presence in Europe, despite closing its London crypto office last week. I tracked down at least a dozen scouts in Europe — and found out what their 'deal' is: sifted.eu/articles/a16...

PEOPLE MOVE: Starling Bank has appointed former OVO Energy Joe Gordon chief operating officer as its new COO sifted.eu/articles/sta...

"In every business I’ve worked or consulted for, the customer support team has always been located in a literal — or metaphysical — basement. Undervalued and overlooked." In the AI era, is that about to change? Olio founder Tessa Clarke thinks so: sifted.eu/articles/cus...

“Knowing what I know now, I would have never taken Mubadala as an investor,” speedy grocery upstart Getir's founder Nazim Salur tells Sifted. 🍿 sifted.eu/articles/get...

New: European tech VCs and founders are wrestling with what the surprise success of China's AI startup DeepSeek means for startups on the continent... More on @sifted.eu sifted.eu/articles/dee...

Nearly 80% of tech companies are considering a secondary share sale in the next year. The findings follow a spate of fintech secondaries last year — with Revolut, Monzo and Tide all letting employees sell shares. sifted.eu/articles/tec...

Exclusive: Internal documents reveal how the UK government spent *five* years luring Andreessen Horowitz to London. Now, just over a year after opening their office, they're gone. sifted.eu/articles/and...

In news that may surprise nobody, Andreessen Horowitz is closing its UK office and pivoting back to the US crypto market sifted.eu/articles/and...

A true Friday story from @freyapratty.bsky.social Founder dresses as burglar to troll corporate rival: ‘I’m ready to embarrass myself’ sifted.eu/articles/gus...

Ledger founder David Balland was kidnapped this week in France — and has now been released sifted.eu/articles/dav...

Startups are increasingly acting like PE buyout firms – here’s why sifted.eu/articles/sta...

Elon Musk’s rise to the role of “chief buddy” under Donald Trump’s second White House administration has stirred division among European tech leaders, with some calling for the EU to adopt his deregulatory agenda. sifted.eu/articles/elo...

Founder salaries jumped up across Europe last year, with the median salary doubling for bootstrapped founders, according to a new report from VC firm Creandum. sifted.eu/articles/sta...

Does Europe need to be more like the US to build global champions? The debate has intensified at a time where Europe's economic progress has stagnated and countries are battling to dominate the next wave of critical technology. More in the Sifted Daily: sifted.eu/articles/eur...

Northvolt's bankruptcy leaves its sister project Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel) as Europe's flagship green infra project. I chatted to Stegra about whether Northvolt's fate has scared off the banks, Stegra's expansion plans and its hopes to mop up Northvolt talent: sifted.eu/articles/ste...

The tech events we'll be heading to in 2025 😎 sifted.eu/articles/tec...

New: Checkout.com saw losses balloon 73% to $306m at its UK entities in 2023, filings show. Revenues from processing payments dropped after severing ties with “a large merchant”, thought to be crypto exchange Binance. sifted.eu/articles/che...

Sifted's most-read stories of 2024 👇 Feat. a whole lot of AI, and sprinkling of drama sifted.eu/articles/sif...

How much does it cost to actually run a VC fund? Carmen Alfonso Rico from Cocoa breaks it down for @sifted.eu 👇 This is *such* a useful piece: sifted.eu/articles/ops...

This from @jim.londoncentric.media is a superb piece of reporting and data crunching on which is going on demographically and socially in London, through TFL charts. Jim's substack, Londoncentric, is very much worth your time. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tra...

Ian Slater set up a family office, Gloucester Circus, to invest into VCs. There was just one problem: the VCs and family offices around Slater were real, but his promises of money were often not. This is the story of the man who managed to catfish the VC ecosystem. sifted.eu/articles/glo...

Nuclear fusion could provide us with clean, cheap and abundant energy within our lifetimes. But... there are *a lot* of technical challenges to overcome first, as Francesco Sciortino, founder of nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion, explains on the latest Sifted pod. bit.ly/49C055t

Last week GenAI startup ElevenLabs got rid of job titles. Here's why: sifted.eu/articles/no-...

New: UK biotech Oxford Nanopore has filed its promised lawsuit against China's BGI over the misuse of confidential information. sifted.eu/articles/oxf...

Babylon founder Ali Parsa's back with a new healthtech startup — and he wants to set the record straight 👀 *Loved* editing this piece sifted.eu/articles/ali...

End of an era? Second Home, the iconic London-based coworking company, is set to appoint administrators. In a previous life @sarahdrumm.bsky.social & I spent more hours than I'd care to count sitting in that little orange pod... 💔 sifted.eu/articles/sec...

Another week, another Parisian startup moves to the Bay Area... sifted.eu/articles/pat...

My latest guest on the Sifted podcast is Petteri Lahtela, cofounder of Oura, the smart wearable company behind *that* ring. We spoke about what’s next for Oura's treasure trove of health data in the age of AI...& how to bring preventative healthcare to the masses podcast.sifted.eu/1877446/epis...

Mistral is now worth €5.8bn, making it Europe’s most valuable AI startup. Investors have often touted its 'state-of-the-art' LLMs & the big brains in the founding team. But—here's the big question—can it actually make serious money? @daphneleprince.bsky.social finds out: sifted.eu/articles/mis...

Galp scraps its joint venture with Northvolt to build Europe's largest lithium refinery 🔋 sifted.eu/articles/gal...

Finally convinced (most of) the team to migrate 🤩 bsky.app/starter-pack...

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