Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

115 Episodes

1. Three exits and a failure: Motorway's Tom Leathes on how to disrupt big industries

   Published: 27/03/2025
2. Nord's Tomas Okmanas on why he had to launch an AI startup

   Published: 21/02/2025
3. The 101 of angel investing with Jenny Tooth

   Published: 24/01/2025
4. Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy

   Published: 13/12/2024
5. Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech

   Published: 29/11/2024
6. General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas

   Published: 11/10/2024
7. Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value

   Published: 13/09/2024
8. Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency

   Published: 23/08/2024
9. Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall

   Published: 25/07/2024
10. DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won

    Published: 28/06/2024
11. Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list

    Published: 24/05/2024
12. Sophia Bendz on why Spotify's Daniel Ek hired people with "no track record"

    Published: 19/04/2024
13. Why Andreessen Horowitz is betting big on crypto in Europe with Sriram Krishnan

    Published: 26/03/2024
14. Hussein Kanji from Hoxton Ventures on how just much he made from investing in Deliveroo and Darktrace

    Published: 29/02/2024
15. Glovo's Oscar Pierre on the gig economy and building scaleups in Southern Europe

    Published: 15/02/2024
16. Station F’s and Sequoia’s Roxanne Varza on how to stop tech companies moving to the US

    Published: 09/02/2024
17. “We’ve made more money than we ever dreamed of”: RELEX Solutions’s Johanna Småros

    Published: 18/12/2023
18. Why is Stability AI changing its business model?

    Published: 07/12/2023
19. More layoffs at European scaleups as the tech slowdown bites

    Published: 30/11/2023
20. HSBC’s Sonya Iovieno on undisclosed down rounds, startups trimming headcount and SVB’s collapse

    Published: 23/11/2023