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Nordic soonicorns to watch

Moneybox races to offer AI-powered financial advice — if regulators allow it

Why women in tech need a spotlight more than ever

10 Oxford spinouts ready to raise Series A

The UK’s first fund of funds with an explicit mandate to invest in female fund managers has announced a first close following team changes.

UK pension providers back £200m fund aimed at supercharging homegrown startups

Over 100 startups left waiting for cash after EU-funded body collapses

EQT and Atomico go head-to-head to manage €5bn EU fund

Matt Clifford steps back from Entrepreneurs First after 15 years

How many government AI initiatives is too many?

EXCLUSIVE: The Women Backing Women fund of funds, which is yet to announce a first close, is down two partners.

OPINION: An interaction with a dying patient was the moment I realised I couldn’t stay in the lab — I needed to do something that would help science reach people faster.

NEWS: London-based AI chip maker Fractile is seeking to raise $200m in funding at a $1bn valuation, according to the Financial Times.

EXCLUSIVE: A growing number of fintech startups are making AI a core component of their offerings from the outset.

NEWS: London-based analytics business valued at $1.3bn following Series C round Credit data startup 9fin crowned Europe’s newest unicorn with $170m raise

RANKED: Sifted’s final roundup of the biggest cheque writers in 2025, covering everything from B2B SaaS and consumer to healthtech and fintech.

SCOOP: The EU is expected to imminently name the investor chosen to manage its new €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund.

The HackSummit, taking place this year, is betting on European founders, investors and experts to meet the challenge of Europe’s deeptech moment.

NEW: Reversal comes amid broader transatlantic push by British neobanks.

ANALYSIS: Five writers on the secretive, well-paid job of making VCs and founders worth reading.

The companies that succeed start by identifying a real problem and then let AI become part of the solution.

LATEST: While we celebrate European founders who ‘make it’ in the US, we overlook the category-defining companies thriving because they doubled down on Europe.

OPINION: Tech sovereignty is a tough game — so maybe the region's startups should be playing differently.

EXCLUSIVE: Following a period of employee churn, the early-stage investor is making further cuts to increase efficiency.

French startup to acquire 13.8k Nvidia GPUs for its first data centre in the south of Paris Mistral secures $830m loan to fund AI data centre build-out.

This is the second iteration of the European Tech Champions Initiative, which launched in 2023 in a bid to boost late-stage startup funding in Europe.

The London-based company, which transcribes meeting notes for users, is valued at $1.5bn.

After launching three AI startups, Lebrun has embarked on the ‘project of a lifetime’ as CEO of LeCun’s new startup.

NEW: Balderton Capital, AVP and other investors were accused of orchestrating a “covert plot” to oust the former CEO of Cognism.

EXCLUSIVE: Sifted tracked the 97 busiest cheque writers, in a year that saw investments rise 61%.

Regions across the UK are tapping government backing, leading research institutions and growing pools of capital to translate vision into results.

NEW: I spent last Sunday in Zurich with the students who want to build the next unicorns

London-based compliance startup Eunice was ranked among the fastest-growing startups in the UK and Ireland by revenue.

NEW: The ETH Zurich spinout, which builds delivery robots, sold to the US delivery giant for an undisclosed sum last week

The French startup’s CEO is advocating for a revenue-based charge to remedy copyright issues in AI

EXCLUSIVE: With the UK minting 4 unicorns so far in 2026, Sifted has identified the startups most likely to join the country's unicorn club next.

One in three founders say access to skilled workers remains their biggest barrier to scaling. But how real is the labour shortage?

Revolut, Europe’s biggest fintech, said it had seen pre-tax profits jump 57% year-on-year in its latest full-year results.

NEW: Payments, lending and infrastructure startups are the setting the pace

LATEST: Quantum startup C12 has built a 1,000 square metre lab in the French capital’s historical centre, where it assembles quantum computers.

The real opportunity isn’t just faster workflows, it’s better human investment and performance. 

OPINION: Lawmakers across Europe still have a lot of convincing to do when it comes to startups, writes Sifted founder John Thornhill.

Number 11 Downing Street played host to a cohort of founders last week, all part of Tech Nation‘s latest Future Fifty programme for fast growing UK scaleups.

NEW: The new fund will back up to 25 startups and spinouts in areas like semiconductors, cybersecurity, robotics and the energy transition

EXCLUSIVE: VCs are crowding each other to get cheques into hot startups

From hypersonic missiles to micro ocean robots, a host of defence startups are catching VCs’ eyes

The delivery robots startup, which spun out of ETH's Robotics Systems Lab in 2023, will become part of the delivery giant’s operations.

This year saw less focus on profitability and a strong pushback on the claim that AI will eat startups’ lunches.

NEW: Harry Stebbings, Kitty Mayo and more speak to Sifted about the accelerator’s first 12 months and their plans to raise a second fund.

EXCLUSIVE: The tech bro never really left, he just went quiet for a couple of years.