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
The mystery of the vanishing investor
This week we discuss:
02:00 Klarna losses triple in first half of 2022
04:14 Topi raises $45m to rent hardware and cut down on e-waste
07:30 Neurofenix raises $7m to help stroke patients recover
09:57 Th…
Is Babylon going to be booted off the New York Stock Exhange?
This week we discuss:
2:26: Poland’s Inovo raising €100m third fund for CEE startups
5:49 Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett’s Web3 startup bags $24m
8:35 The startup that could slash the cost of EV batt…
Why Robinhood tanked a crypto app’s valuation to re-enter the UK
This week we discuss:
(03:09) Crypto app Ziglu’s valuation slashed in Robinhood buyout
(06:06) Microverse doubles valuation as demand for remote coding course soars
(09:30) Ukraine tech companies in urg…
Klarna in crisis? Why normal folks are still investing
This week we discuss:
(01:34) After months of missed payroll and unpaid refunds, events company Pollen enters administration
(03:41) German digital bank Nuri files for insolvency
(05:10) Klarna’s valuat…
\Gorillas: €60m burn rate, big cash bailouts and a looming downround
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This week we discuss:
(03:20) Gorillas is set to rais…
\The next Tesla: could this startup birth the next era of Musk rivals?
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This week we discuss:
(01:53) Germany pledges €30bn t…
\Should your boss pay your energy bills?
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This week we discuss:
(02:06) Starling Bank hits prof…
\Raids and possible “cartels”: Inside the latest Glovo drama
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(03:05) Klarna’s valuation was slashed to $6.7bn
(6:15) The latest in big layoffs: Hopin has let go 29% of its workf…
\Gorillas’ latest scandal — will their riders ever get paid?
This week we discuss:
(02:38) Two new climate tech funds, Climentum and AENU, launch
(06:29) Quantum-as-a-service startup Oxford Quantum Circuits raises £38m
(07:46) More than 100 Gorillas riders lose …
\The EU's big new plan for tech innovation
This week we discuss:
2:24 Crypto winter and Bitpanda layoffs
4:17 Hiring tech startup Screenloop raises $7m
5:43 Wise and Songkick founders launch new VC fund
8:48 Christian Tooley from i³ investing on …
\From near death to an $80m Series E: How Omio survived
On this week's show:
02:20 — Idoven raises $19.8m to scale it's AI heart disease detection tech
05:00 — Kranus Health raises $6.5m to build the “viagra of digital therapy”
09:45 — Europe's top "digital …
\Can N26 be trusted? A rare interview with the founder
On this week's show:
03:22 — SoftBank backs Proximie in $80m round for AR surgery
06:00 — Epoch Biodesign has raised $11m to grow its plastic-eating enzymes tech
09:38 — What's going on in European tech…
\Will Gorillas survive this week’s C-suite exodus?
Amy is joined this week by our producer, Tim! First up, we’re chatting about big raises in crypto and the EU’s Ukrainian relief fund. Berlin correspondent Miriam Partington joins us to tell all about…
S2 E14 \Customer scandal surrounds elite event company Pollen
This week on the show we’re talking to Freya Pratty about her joint investigation with Éanna Kelly into Pollen, an elite events company with heavy investor backing. We’ll hear about its angry custome…
S2 E13 \Mass layoffs are here — who's been hit?
Some of Europe's best known tech companies have cut thousands of staff this week, as the economic slowdown arrives on the continent.
On the pod we discuss who's been hit hardest so far, how startups c…
S2 E12 \The billionaire betting big on psychedelics
It’s our first real, live billionaire guest… Christian Angermayer, founder of ATAI Life Sciences, a startup that seeks to treat mental health disorders with psychedelics. But first, hear all about th…
S2 E11 \Tech stocks are crashing — what does it mean for startups?
Public markets are down and tech company stocks are no exception. How will the slump affect VC behaviour, and how should startups prepare for what's coming? We also ask whether NFT sports card platfo…
S2 E10 \Wise, Bolt and Skype: How Estonia churns out unicorns
We're live from Estonia! The Sifted Podcast recorded an extra special episode in front of an audience at our Sifted Sessions \Tallinn. This week we're talking about how a tiny country in the Baltics …
S2 E9 \The fintech targeting… seafarers?
This week, Amy calls in from Riga, and tells us about the Latvian startups she’s met at TechChill — turns out wind-turbine-fixing robots are big business! We discuss the latest in startup news, inclu…
S2 E8 \VC horror stories
Amy’s away this week, so Eleanor is joined by guest host and Sifted writer, Éanna Kelly! We’re discussing the juicy investment news of the week, including new funds for university spinouts and Spanis…