Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast
Get to know the brightest and boldest names in European tech with Sifted’s weekly podcast, hosted by Amy Lewin. She interviews the founders, operators and investors building Europe’s most exciting startups and, in conversation with Sifted’s expert journalists, pulls back the curtain on the most intriguing companies they’ve been reporting on.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 131
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Why is Typeform losing market share?
This week we discuss:
01:06 Monzo narrows losses slightly as lending book triples
04:06 Inside GetYourGuide: Germany’s $2bn travel experiences platform
07:41 US giant NEA backs Stockholm AI company Sana…
Interview: Blossom capital’s Ophelia Brown on why crypto isn’t dying, but the UK tech sector might be
This week it’s another longer form interview. We’re joined by Ophelia Brown, managing partner of Blossom Capital, a VC fund that’s backed the likes of payments company Checkout.com, crypto exchange M…
What’s behind the senior employee exodus at Revolut?
This week we discuss:
02:55 Mobility giant Bolt likely to acquire rival Tier in weeks
05:00 Northvolt to build German and US factories
10:13 ETH spinout ANYbotics raises $50m for AI-led robo workforce
1…
Amazon Alexa's creator drops hints about new AI startup
This week we discuss:
01:30 German startup Blinkist acquired by Australian content company Go1
05:39 Proposed EU net neutrality 'paywall' for internet access spooks founders
09:55 Micro-ticket investmen…
New rules for the London Stock Exchange to combat "Brexit idiocy"
This week we discuss:
01:20 Investors say new UK listing rules might not be enough to entice tech companies
05:24 German startup Prematch raises €2.4m to build 'Fifa for amateur football'
09:22 Mental …
Stability AI leaked pitch deck raises questions over Series A
This week we discuss:
01:27 Northvolt to confirm US expansion plans within weeks, cofounder says
04:07 Leaked deck raises questions over Stability AI's Series A pitch to investors
08:16 The call for a C…
Checkout.com sees exec exodus while laying off staff “by stealth"
This week we discuss:
01:18 Checkout.com faces exec team exodus and makes layoffs ‘by stealth’
05:30 ‘Mini-revolt’ as TravelPerk U-turns on remote work
08:26 Founders had to wait ‘far too long’ for EIC …
Interview: Layoffs and large language models in healthcare with Kry’s Johannes Schildt
This week it’s another long form interview and we’re joined in the studio with Johannes Schildt from Stockholm-based digital healthcare provider Kry.
After a tough 2022, the founder reflects on deali…
The man trying to stop the AI apocalypse
This week we discuss:
03:54: Starting to take off: German rocket maker Isar Aerospace raises $165m
06:43: Europe’s spacetech report
06:59: Climate tech Agreena raises €46m Series B to fight climate chan…
Interview: Seven-figure salaries and AI sovereignty, with Entrepreneur First's Matt Clifford
This week it's a longer form interview with Matt Clifford, founder of early stage investor and startup builder Entrepreneur First. He's also recently been appointed as an AI advisor to the UK governm…
How the government saved SVB UK
This week we're doing a special episode looking at the Silicon Valley Bank crash, why it happened, why the tech sector was so exposed and how the government stepped in to help save the UK subsidiary …
In conversation with Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski
This week we’ve got a special episode focusing on Swedish tech. Sifted has been visiting the Nordic Nation for our Stockholm Sessions event, where we caught up with founders working in everything fro…
Inside Klarna’s $1bn annual loss — its biggest ever
This week we discuss:
02:18 Revolut reports its first-ever year of profit
05:29 Klarna posts $1bn annual loss, its largest ever
09:55 Want to drive using mind control?
13:14 GitLab and Remote backer Inke…
Interview: Transferwise founder Taavet Hinrikus on going over to the VC dark side
This week it's a long form interview with founder-turned-investor Taavet Hinrikus. He's half a year into his journey as a VC and says that his new fund Plural is going to do things differently. He ca…
Ukraine special: Founders on the frontline
In this special episode of Startup Europe, Sifted’s central and eastern Europe correspondent Zosia Wanat looks under the surface of some of the continent’s most resilient startups.
Based on extensive …
Meet Europe’s biggest competitor to OpenAI
This week we discuss:
01:59: Germany launches €1bn fund for climate and deeptech scaleups
05:33: ‘Good news for startups’ — UK government launches new Science, Innovation and Technology department
07:41…
Entrepreneurs are outraged as Tech Nation shuts down after losing government support, leaving talent visa scheme in limbo
This week we discuss:
02:33: PASQAL lands €100m after ‘world-first’ real-life quantum computer use
05:17: Renaissance Fusion raises €15m to develop clean nuclear energy technology
07:27: Monzo revenues …
Interview: Will speedy grocery ever be profitable? Delivery Hero’s Milena Lazarevska, VP of quick commerce
This week we're back with a longer form interview, digging into one of the most hyped tech sectors in recent times: speedy grocery delivery.
After startups in the space raised millions in 2021 — shoo…