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.
Podcasting since 2021 • 150 episodes
Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast
Latest Episodes
The 26 startups to watch in 2026 — plus cities, sectors and investors on the up
It’s been a busy start to the year for Europe’s tech ecosystem.We’ve already had five new unicorns born, €5.2bn raised, a $1bn acquisition and Sifted’s landed several scoops revealing that some of the continent’s most intere...
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Endeavor CEO Linda Rottenberg: ‘Talent is everywhere. Opportunity and capital are not’
How do you spot Europe’s next unicorn founder before anyone else does? And where can investors still make outsized returns?This week on the Sifted Podcast, host Amy Lewin is joined by Linda Rottenberg, founder of global tech network Ende...
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Is Europe’s AI infrastructure build-out heading for a gigafactory-style bust?
If you’ve been following the recent wave of data centre announcements across Europe, you’ll have noticed one thing: governments are suddenly obsessed with compute. Why is that — and how will France, the UK and others fare in the AI infrastructu...
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2026: The year the AI bubble bursts?
If 2025 was the year of the AI agent, what will 2026 be? Which companies will make headlines — for all the right, or all the wrong, reasons? And will optimism around Europe’s startup ecosystem continue to mount, or will geopolitical tensions th...
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NATO Innovation Fund chair Fiona Murray: ‘The threat from Russia is extremely real’
When NATO announced plans to launch a €1bn innovation fund back in 2022, heads turned. €1bn? To invest in defence and security? Backed by 24 countries? At the time, most European VCs were still incredibly wary of backing defence companies — and...
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