Fintech giant Wise is readying plans to crack the American market, months after announcing plans to shift its primary listing from London to the US
Fintech giant Wise is readying plans to crack the American market, months after announcing plans to shift its primary listing from London to the US
ICYMI: Revolut is weighing a potential share sale for the second half of this year, which reports suggest could up its valuation to around $100bn
Four years into the Ukraine war, Nordic defence spending is surging, pulling startups into defence and space as the region races to close capability gaps.
Could Finnish quantum computing startup IQM's plans to go public via a SPAC be a sign that SPACs are back?
SCOOP: NATO's tech accelerator, Diana, has had three different managing directors in the last year. Now, complaints have been raised
ICYMI: London-based autonomous vehicles startup Wayve has raised a $1.5bn Series D funding round, backed by big-name investors like Nvidia, SoftBank and Microsoft
Silicon Valley backers ramped up investments in Europe by almost a quarter last year. Here are the most active US VCs this side of the Atlantic
If older SaaS companies fail to compete with AI-native startups, it could leave VCs sitting on portfolios with declining valuations... But will that happen?
Funding for Poland-based startups jumped 62.5% year on year, from β¬150m in 2024 to β¬240m in 2025, according to Sifted data. But which are the companies you should be keeping tabs on?
Much of the buzz around AI safety is currently framed by US tech giants. How are European startups approaching the topic?
ICYMI: Finnish quantum startup IQM is set to go public via a SPAC
Investors from InMotion Ventures, OpenOcean and elsewhere share upcoming Austrian startups to keep an eye on
Remarkably few of Europeβs best-known VC firms have a permanent presence in the US. Those that do say it's a big competitive advantage
Scoop: The founder of German drone maker Quantum Systems has sold his stake in unmanned ground robot maker ARX Robotics a month before launching a similar product
The tech-people-suck genre is in full swing. Sifted's Γanna Kelly asked industry leaders how they feel about it
Adam Kostyal took the helm of Nasdaq Stockholm just as Europeβs IPO market showed signs of life again. But heβs the first to admit the job isnβt done yet
Vizzia, a French startup providing video surveillance technology for local authorities, has raised a β¬30m Series B round, bringing total funding to β¬50m
Europeβs real problem isnβt talent. Itβs permission to start early, argues Jack & Jill founder Saaras Mehan for Sifted today. Do you agree? π€
IYCMI: French AI giant Mistral has made its first acquisition
Public investors were behind 30% of European startup deals in 2025 β but which were the most active?
Sequoia's Zoe Hewitt shares tips on the questions 'founders-in-waiting' should ask before taking an exciting role, vs going it alone
The AI fintech founder believes Europeβs inability to scale tech companies at home could threaten democracy
UK photonics startup Optalysys is exploring licensing its chip designs to leading industry players including Nvidia and Google
Quantonation, the Paris-based VC firm focused on quantum technologies, has closed a β¬220m early-stage fund β double the size of its previous fund
Europe has lagged big US language model developers, but some believe it has a chance to get ahead with world models
ICYMI: The founders of Turkish food delivery startup Getir are suing Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala for $700m
The mood at this yearβs Munich Security Conference, an annual whoβs who of Europeβs defence VCs, founders and politicians, was decidedly "anti-US,β attendees tell Sifted.
AI startup Toyo has raised $4.3m to build the βOpenClaw for foundersβ, backed by Frontline Ventures and angels from Cloudflare, Microsoft and Amazon.