The Sifted Podcast

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Sifted podcast is a weekly show that boils down the biggest goings on in European tech and startups into a commute-sized dose of news, analysis and features. The podcast is hosted by Sifted editor Amy Lewin and deputy editor Eleanor Warnock who dive into the latest news coming out of Europe’s tech and startup sector. They cover everything from cutting edge technology to huge funding rounds and the latest company scandals. The podcast is an opportunity to get their editors’ takes on the big stories, hear from the journalists breaking the news and more.
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Nov 17, 2022	Index Ventures is launching its second seed fund — just a year after its first	Deliveroo and Revolut backer Index Ventures is launching its second seed-focused fund, of $300m. It comes a year and a half after its first seed-focused fund, a $200m vehicle. That means the San Francisco and London-headquartered firm is no...
Nov 9, 2022	Wolt and Einride-backer EQT Ventures closes €1bn fund for early-stage startups	EQT Ventures, the VC arm of publicly listed Swedish investment manager EQT Group, has just raised a €1.1bn third fund to back early-stage startups. It’s the largest fund raised by a European VC focused purely on early-stage venture, and fol...
Oct 5, 2022	Day one of the Sifted Summit: Tom Blomfield and Steve O’Hear reunited	The Sifted Summit — our two-day London event — is in full swing. Over 1,500 founders, operators and investors have gathered for a full programme of panel discussions, workshops, roundtables and slightly windy queues at food trucks. Wednesda...
Oct 5, 2022	Passion Capital founder Eileen Burbidge to lead UK femtech Fertifa	One of the UK’s most well-known early-stage VCs, Eileen Burbidge, has stepped in to lead early-stage femtech company Fertifa. Burbidge is a founding partner of early-stage firm Passion Capital, launched in 2011, which has backed UK tech suc...
Oct 4, 2022	France’s Sista announces first close of €100m VC fund	Sista, the Paris-based organisation behind some pretty significant — and hilarious — campaigns to get more funding heading towards female founders, is now raising a VC fund. Today, it’s announcing a first close of €30m, backed by many of Fr...
Sep 27, 2022	Xavier Niel’s Iliad launches long-anticipated payments solution Stancer	French billionaire Xavier Niel’s telecoms company Iliad has launched its long-anticipated payment subsidiary Stancer. The businessman is well known for trying to shake up industries from telecommunications to media — now the tech world is w...
Sep 23, 2022	Babylon plans to implement reverse share split to avoid delisting	Yesterday was crunch time for Babylon Health, the UK health scaleup that listed in the US last year. For more than a month, its shares have been selling for less than $1 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Over that period, the company w...
Sep 14, 2022	Tiger-backed startup Pitch lays off 30% of staff	Pitch, the Berlin-based startup creating alternatives to Google Slides and PowerPoint, has today announced it will be laying off 30% of its team. In a LinkedIn post, CEO and founder Christian Reber explained that 59 individuals would be let...
Sep 13, 2022	Northzone raises €1bn fund to back European entrepreneurs	Northzone, the European VC firm, has raised a new €1bn fund — its largest to date, and one of the biggest raised in Europe this year. The fresh capital will be used to do more of the same, backing startups from seed all the way up to IPO, w...
Sep 12, 2022	EQT Growth launches biggest first-time European growth fund of €2.4bn	Europe now has seed funds coming out of its ears — but European growth funds are few and far between. The result? European investors accounted for just 30% of investors in $50m+ rounds raised by European startups in 2021. Enter EQT Growth, ...
Sep 2, 2022	This new fund of funds wants to back Europe’s emerging VCs	A lot has been made recently of American VC firms coming to Europe to splash their cash. But it’s a new generation of home-grown VCs — some of which don’t even exist yet — that are set to make a bigger splash. That’s according to a new fund...
Aug 31, 2022	Claret announces €297m debt fund as European venture debt on track for record year	Get in line, VCs — you’re not the only choice for cash-hungry founders in Europe any more. As founders get savvier about fundraising options, they’re increasingly looking to raise debt as well as equity financing. And European debt funds ar...
Aug 25, 2022	Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett’s Web3 startup bags $24m	Steven Bartlett, known for his appearances on the UK reality TV show Dragon’s Den (for non-UK readers — it’s Shark Tank), has just raised a $24m Series A for his Web3 infrastructure company thirdweb. The round puts the company’s valuation a...
Aug 10, 2022	With a fresh €5m, Berlin’s Junto wants you to learn from Google execs	Berlin-based edtech Junto has just raised a €5m seed round for its B2B upskilling platform — which lets employees take live classes from tech operators at companies like Google. What does Junto do? Junto sells its learning platform directly...
Aug 3, 2022	Meet Cornerstone VC — a Black-led pre-seed and seed fund with £20m to invest	Born out of a Black-led angel group, Cornerstone VC has just raised a £20m fund to back the “1% of the 1%” of diverse UK founders. And, with backers like Series A+ VC firm Atomico, it hopes to help these founders raise more money further do...
Jul 27, 2022	Meet the UK’s largest pre-seed fund — with an 80% ethnic minority LP base	The UK has gotten its largest ever dedicated pre-seed fund, as Concept Ventures (previously known as RLC Ventures) announces a £50m fund today. An impressive 80% of the fund’s LPs are from ethnic minority backgrounds and 18% are women. Pre-...
Jul 22, 2022	French business bank unicorn Qonto buys German competitor Penta	Qonto, the French business banking unicorn, today announced plans to acquire German fintech Penta. The deal is expected to close in the next few weeks, and will help Qonto push hard into Germany — where it hopes to become the market leader....
Jul 21, 2022	Starling posts first annual profit as revenues rise 93%	Starling Bank posted its first full-year profit, according to its latest financial results, solidifying its leading position among fintech startups that mostly struggle to turn app downloads into revenue. In results released today the Londo...
Jul 13, 2022	BBC reports new sexual assault case on massage app startup Urban	A woman told the police she was sexually assaulted by a therapist booked through Urban, a British startup offering at-home treatments from self-employed massage therapists, a BBC News investigation reported. The incident follows the convict...
Jul 5, 2022	New €100m evergreen climate tech fund AENU launches	Millionaire entrepreneur brothers Fabian and Ferry Heilemann have been through something of a green awakening. “A few years ago, we had this realisation that we’re really in trouble, and the tech ecosystem has not understood it yet,” says F...
Jun 30, 2022	Read Balderton’s email to portfolio CEOs about the tech slowdown	Given the slowdown in tech and the threat of an economic downturn, investors from Sequoia to Y Combinator have been quick to share advice with their portfolio companies. Sifted has obtained a copy of an email sent by Bernard Liautaud, manag...
Jun 29, 2022	Stripe founders back Entrepreneur First in latest $158m round of funding	There haven’t been that many significant innovations in venture capital — despite what VCs might tell you — but, arguably, Entrepreneur First is one of them. While most accelerators and company builders start with ideas, EF started with peo...
Jun 29, 2022	Europe gets its first creator-founded, creator-backed VC	More founders are tapping creators and celebrities as early investors — beyond the cheques, they’re looking to access their networks and expertise. And now, Europe has its first creator-founded, creator-backed VC, Creator Ventures, which ha...
Jun 29, 2022	Debut fund from solo GP to back startups — and emerging managers	There’s an increasing number of solo VC managers focused on Europe — and a new one joins the ranks today: Hypernova. But the $25m fund, founded by investor Tugce Ergul, is unique in that it will invest in both startups and other funds. Ergu...
Jun 28, 2022	Taavet Hinrikus and Ian Hogarth launch €250m VC fund	It’s finally happened: a gaggle of Europe’s most active angel investors (and successful former founders) — including Wise’s Taavet Hinrikus and Songkick’s Ian Hogarth — are getting into the VC game. They’ve raised a €250m fund, called Plura...
Jun 27, 2022	New platform enables ‘everyday’ folk to invest in VC	When crowdfunding platforms came along in the mid 2010s they enabled “everyday” people to easily invest in everything from tech startups to local breweries. Now, a similar revolution is (slowly) underway in VC — as a new generation of platf...
Jun 21, 2022	Web3 learning and talent startup Neol raises $5.2m seed	London-based startup Neol has just raised $5.2m in seed funding — its first external capital — to build out a Web3-enabled learning and talent platform that wants to take on On Deck as much as McKinsey. What does Neol do? Neol runs online t...
Jun 21, 2022	LocalGlobe launches new scaleup fund to go to IPO and beyond	The LocalGlobe empire has been steadily growing — and today it officially gets even bigger. The London-based VC firm, known for investing in European startup successes like Wise, TravelPerk, Monzo and Zego, has raised a new scaleup fund to ...
May 9, 2022	Virtual fertility clinic Apricity raises €17m	Apricity, a UK-based fertility startup which has seen revenue double in the past year, has raised a €17m Series B. It’s heading after a big — and growing — sector: the global fertility market is predicted to hit $26bn in the next five years...

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Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning The Sifted Podcast, among them “Index Ventures is launching its second seed fund — just a year after its first” (Nov 17, 2022) and “Wolt and Einride-backer EQT Ventures closes €1bn fund for early-stage startups” (Nov 9, 2022).

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