Hyme Energy, that stores renewable energy using molten salt, is teaming up with Arla to create the world’s largest industrial thermal energy storage system.

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19.12.2024

Stability AI says Getty has increased damages claims for copyright infringement to up to $1.7bn | Sifted

Cases alleging AI companies have trained their models on intellectual property without permission are stacking up

Sifted Fintech

19.12.2024

European founders are thinking more creatively about exits. Here are some of the options | Sifted

A growing number of European scaleups have voiced their intentions to make a public debut. The question is, when?

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19.12.2024

Five spacetech startups fundraising right now | Sifted

Sifted scouted and contacted 65 European early-stage spacetech startups to discover who is actively fundraising.

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19.12.2024

Can Europe's stock exchanges reverse their dwindling IPO appeal? | Sifted

Companies are leaving London's stock exchange. Investors ponder what could make Europe's IPO market more attractive.

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19.12.2024

Is the dream of electric planes over? Munich-based startup Vaeridion thinks not | Sifted

The Munich-based startup, which is building an electric microliner for short-haul commercial flights, is today announcing a €14m Series A.

Sifted Fintech

19.12.2024

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups by revenue | Sifted

B2B SaaS was the most represented vertical on the recent Sifted 250, a ranking of the 250 fastest-growing startups in Europe by revenue.

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18.12.2024

Bringing clean, cheap and abundant energy to the masses | Sifted

Nuclear fusion may be the biggest industry of the next century, says Proxima Fusion founder Francesco Sciortino on the Sifted Podcast.

Sifted Fintech

18.12.2024

Revolut’s stablecoin plans might never materialise | Sifted

Two people familiar with Revolut’s crypto operations tell Sifted regulatory red tape is holding up the fintech’s push into stablecoins.

Sifted Fintech

18.12.2024

Who do Europe’s startups bank with? | Sifted

HSBC tops Sifted's list of the 25 most popular banks amongst Europe's startups featured on the Sifted 250 ranking.

Sifted Fintech

18.12.2024

Hire fast, hire smart: How to find (and attract) top talent for your startup | Sifted

In our latest Sifted Talks, we look at how to find, attract and retain talent and discuss the top recruitment and hiring trends for 2025.

Sifted Fintech

18.12.2024

The breakthrough that could make MRI scans available for all | Sifted

Corsmed's software cuts the time for MRI scans from 45 minutes to 2-3. Now it announces a $3.5m seed round to commercialise its product.

Sifted Fintech

18.12.2024

The operational costs of running a first-time VC fund | Sifted

Cocoa's Carmen Alfonso Rico shares everything she's learnt about the operational costs of running a first-time VC fund.

Sifted Fintech

17.12.2024

Europe has a deeptech talent gap. Here’s how the EIT plans to solve it | Sifted

If Europe wants to be a front-runner in deeptech, it will need a workforce that can turn that ambition into reality.

Sifted Fintech

17.12.2024

Funding for French tech startups set to drop by 50% in the second half of 2024 | Sifted

Sifted data shows that VC activity significantly slowed in H2 2024 — a trend that investors say has been on-going this year

Sifted Fintech

17.12.2024

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing healthtech startups by revenue | Sifted

21 healthtechs made it onto the Sifted 250, our annual list of the fastest-growing startups in Europe by revenue growth.

Sifted Fintech

17.12.2024

A record year: will the venture debt boom continue into 2025? | Sifted

Venture debt had a record year in 2024, let’s take a look at what venture debt has offered startups and what the forecast is for 2025.

Sifted Fintech

16.12.2024

Why UiPath’s Daniel Dines isn’t worried about OpenAI or Anthropic | Sifted

Some say GenAI is killing old school automation. UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines has other ideas, he tells Sifted.

Sifted Fintech

16.12.2024

Comand AI raises €8.5m to build battlefield AI software for officers | Sifted

The startup’s team hails from the likes of OpenAI and Palantir — and it’s on the hunt to hire more from those companies.

Sifted Fintech

16.12.2024

Inside Gloucester Circus: the family office which managed to catfish London’s VC ecosystem | Sifted

Although the VCs, family offices and even the lawyer that often accompanied Ian Slater were real, his promises of money were often not.

Sifted Fintech

13.12.2024

The kinds of VCs the €1bn NATO Innovation Fund wants to back in 2025 | Sifted

The fund, backed by 24 NATO allies, has announced six VC fund investments so far.

Sifted Fintech

13.12.2024

Nine people who mattered in climate tech in 2024 | Sifted

As we come to close out a turbulent year, here are nine people who’ve helped shape European climate tech in 2024.

Sifted Fintech

13.12.2024

How to reflect on 2024 as a founder | Sifted

Here's how to carve out time to reflect, recharge and reconnect with what really matters

Sifted Fintech

12.12.2024

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing deeptech startups by revenue | Sifted

There were few deeptechs featured on Sifted’s ranking of Europe’s 250 fastest-growing startups. These are the ones that made the cut.

Sifted Fintech

12.12.2024

Insurtech unicorn ManyPets reports falling losses amid layoffs and market exits | Sifted

Revenue has also dropped according to its latest accounting period, following a bruising couple of years for the insurance industry.

Sifted Fintech

12.12.2024

The tech teaching dogs to ‘talk’ | Sifted

While the tech is still in its infancy, here are the innovations teaching dogs to “talk” — from soundboards to collars.

Sifted Fintech

12.12.2024

Blackrock-backed Upvest doubles valuation as it raises €100m | Sifted

The Berlin-based fintech recently secured a licence from UK regulatory watchdogs to operate in the country.

Sifted Fintech

11.12.2024

French GenAI drug discovery startup DeepLife raises $10m | Sifted

DeepLife is building a platform to create "digital twins" of cells and help pharma companies repurpose existing drugs for new conditions

Sifted Fintech

11.12.2024

Banks lag in staying ahead of evolving AI regulation. Are fintechs poised to benefit? | Sifted

Under the EU AI Act banks face stricter regulation than fintechs, who may use this as an opportunity to use AI to grab market share.

Sifted Fintech

11.12.2024

Startup associations call for the creation of a European Tibi to boost VC investments from pension funds and insurers | Sifted

26 startup associations have signed an open letter to the EU’s new Commissioners, calling for greater involvement of Europe’s institutional investors in the tech ecosystem

Sifted Fintech

11.12.2024

'The rise of the AfD is definitely not good news for the startup ecosystem' | Sifted

Attracting tech talent to Germany remains a key priority, says Verena Pausder, chairperson of the German Startup Association

Sifted Fintech

11.12.2024

Why we’ve removed job titles at ElevenLabs | Sifted

We want our team to be asking 'where do I have the highest impact right now?' rather than 'how do I become head of X'?

Sifted Fintech

11.12.2024

Lithuania is ranked the world’s happiest country for young people. Here’s why tech talent should move there | Sifted

Lithuania appeals to the most recent generation of tech talent, thanks to its potential for building careers and raising families.

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Most European VCs have spoken to over 100 LPs in the past two years | Sifted

Smart ring maker Oura raises $125m as it eyes global expansion | Sifted

Europe’s fastest-growing startup teams (by headcount) in 2024 | Sifted

1Komma5 raises €150m to pave way for IPO | Sifted

RIP 'climate tech'? | Sifted

The year of AI: 12 events that shaped the sector in 2024 | Sifted

Longtime Sequoia partner Matt Miller departs to start his own Europe fund | Sifted

Five years after cracking cheap solar storage, Hyme plans the world’s largest thermal energy storage system | Sifted

Stability AI says Getty has increased damages claims for copyright infringement to up to $1.7bn | Sifted

European founders are thinking more creatively about exits. Here are some of the options | Sifted

Five spacetech startups fundraising right now | Sifted

Can Europe's stock exchanges reverse their dwindling IPO appeal? | Sifted

Is the dream of electric planes over? Munich-based startup Vaeridion thinks not | Sifted

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups by revenue | Sifted

Bringing clean, cheap and abundant energy to the masses | Sifted

Revolut’s stablecoin plans might never materialise | Sifted

Who do Europe’s startups bank with? | Sifted

Hire fast, hire smart: How to find (and attract) top talent for your startup | Sifted

The breakthrough that could make MRI scans available for all | Sifted

The operational costs of running a first-time VC fund | Sifted

Europe has a deeptech talent gap. Here’s how the EIT plans to solve it | Sifted

Funding for French tech startups set to drop by 50% in the second half of 2024 | Sifted

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing healthtech startups by revenue | Sifted

A record year: will the venture debt boom continue into 2025? | Sifted

Why UiPath’s Daniel Dines isn’t worried about OpenAI or Anthropic | Sifted

Comand AI raises €8.5m to build battlefield AI software for officers | Sifted

Inside Gloucester Circus: the family office which managed to catfish London’s VC ecosystem | Sifted

The kinds of VCs the €1bn NATO Innovation Fund wants to back in 2025 | Sifted

Nine people who mattered in climate tech in 2024 | Sifted

How to reflect on 2024 as a founder | Sifted

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing deeptech startups by revenue | Sifted

Insurtech unicorn ManyPets reports falling losses amid layoffs and market exits | Sifted

The tech teaching dogs to ‘talk’ | Sifted

Blackrock-backed Upvest doubles valuation as it raises €100m | Sifted

French GenAI drug discovery startup DeepLife raises $10m | Sifted

Banks lag in staying ahead of evolving AI regulation. Are fintechs poised to benefit? | Sifted

Startup associations call for the creation of a European Tibi to boost VC investments from pension funds and insurers | Sifted

'The rise of the AfD is definitely not good news for the startup ecosystem' | Sifted

Why we’ve removed job titles at ElevenLabs | Sifted

Lithuania is ranked the world’s happiest country for young people. Here’s why tech talent should move there | Sifted

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