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Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

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Every week, Sifted editor Amy Lewin and deputy editor Eleanor Warnock will be diving into the latest news coming out of Europe's tech and startup sector. From cutting edge technology to huge...

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Strawberry's Charles Maddock on lessons from Anton Osika, US ambitions – and how Legora’s Junestrand helped land GC

Charles Maddock has been betting on AI agents since before most people knew what they were. His Stockholm-based startup Strawberry makes an...

33:00Oct 26, 2026

Meet Aaron Rosenberg: The man DeepMind researchers call before they quit

With former DeepMind researchers raising record sums for their own startups, few investors are better placed than Aaron Rosenberg. Once Demi...

48:22Oct 22, 2026

Harry Stebbings on 996 regrets, political ambitions and building a personal brand

Harry Stebbings needs little introduction. The founder of 20VC has built a venture and media empire, and a reputation for punchy takes. Amon...

38:27Oct 16, 2026

Nick Clegg on Europe, AI and big tech

Few people have seen tech policy from as many angles as Nick Clegg. He spent five years as the UK’s deputy prime minister, then seven inside...

35:19Oct 14, 2026

Who are Europe’s fastest-growing companies?

This week at Sifted we launched the Sifted 250 — a ranking of the 250 fastest-growing startups by revenue-growth across the continent, as we...

32:12Oct 2, 2026

Is New York warming to European tech?

Senior reporter Anne Sraders has just spent two weeks in New York, and one thing was impossible to miss: AI was everywhere. From subway ads...

17:58Sep 23, 2026

Does Europe have a voice in AI safety?

Last week, the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon catapulted the discussion over AI safety into the mainstream. A thread he pos...

18:40Sep 15, 2026

Is Mistral's monster fundraise a win for European sovereignty?

There's been talk all summer about who would fund Mistral's next round. This week it was confirmed: €3bn at a €21bn valuation, co-led by Sam...

20:55Sep 11, 2026

Why Legora isn't building its own model

Legora has had a busy year. The Swedish legal AI firm raised $550m in March, led by Accel, and has made five acquisitions since January. The...

17:47Sep 3, 2026

Are the Nordics really on fire?

There’s a lot of talk at the moment about the momentum in the Nordic tech scene. Companies like legal AI firm Legora and vibe coding startup...

17:48Aug 28, 2026

Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka: ‘We're a few quarters away from $1bn ARR’

This week on the podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by Uljan Sharka, the founder and CEO of Italian AI unicorn Domyn. Uljan migrated fro...

40:57Aug 19, 2026

European fintech has a culture problem

Sifted's fintech reporter Damisola Sulaiman makes her first Sifted podcast appearance to discuss her recent reporting on the culture at Dani...

18:49Aug 14, 2026

VCs are taking on operator roles. Why?

VCs taking on interim roles at their portfolio companies is something that’s happened for a long time — as is VCs making the permanent switc...

11:55Jul 30, 2026

Inside Mistral’s monster fundraise and Palantir-like repositioning

Mistral’s latest fundraise has got the ecosystem chattering. The French AI darling is reportedly raising a €3bn Series D round at a valuatio...

21:42Jul 21, 2026

Yann LeCun launched a new VC fund — then quit. What happened?

Last Friday, Europe’s tech ecosystem was abuzz with the news AI godfather Yann LeCun was launching an AI VC firm. Then, hours later, he quit...

11:09Jul 15, 2026

Liz Kendall: ‘I’d love to stay as UK tech secretary’

Liz Kendall was appointed as the UK's Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology just under a year ago. But will she keep her...

33:52Jul 7, 2026

Should the EU block the UK from its €5bn superfund?

The UK is home to the third-highest number of unicorn startups in the world. Does it make sense to lock it out of the EU's new Scaleup Fund?...

11:56Jul 2, 2026

Brent Hoberman on UK tech post-Starmer: 'Are we going to tax everyone to high hell?'

While the UK's tech scene booms, political uncertainty looms. In this week's episode of the Sifted podcast, John Thornhill is joined by seri...

44:28Jun 25, 2026

What the Anthropic shutdown means for Europe

Late last week, the European tech ecosystem got a glimpse of a future many had worried about. US AI giant Anthropic announced it had been or...

15:47Jun 16, 2026

Newton Venture Program CEO Anu Adebajo on Europe’s ‘zombie funds’

This week on the Sifted Podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by Anu Adebajo, former Atomico partner and, as of February this year, CEO of...

44:51Jun 11, 2026