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Quantum startup Quobly raises €115m backed by STMicroelectronics
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EQT: European tech’s new kingmaker?
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How we built our robot dog startup: ‘We took all our VC meetings at Ikea’
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Exclusive: Plural leads $26m round for industrial AI startup Gigaton
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Oxford Quantum Circuits raises blockbuster $350m Series C
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SoftBank in talks to back Agile Robotics in $800m round, reports say
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Spacetech EnduroSat eyes $200m Series C months after last round, sources say
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Why mobile is becoming the next front in Europe’s superapp race
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Stablecoin remittance app goes live in UK after $1m in transactions during silent beta
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Exclusive: Vinted Ventures backs Revolut mafia duo in $26m raise
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Tech for good isn't dead. Venture capital just forgot how to find it
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Meet Jonny Clifford: ex-teacher, Entrepreneurs First partner and Matt's 'more fun' brother
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AI-powered finance startup Gradient Labs doubles Series A to $26m
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SoftBank helps drive record €93bn of foreign investments for ‘Choose France’
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Anthropic’s $65bn round begs the question: ‘Is Europe cooked?’
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Frontier computing mapped: 70+ companies racing to power the AI era
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Exclusive: ASML spinout Invisix raises €20m seed round
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The US and Europe: A tale of two AIs
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Revolut, Mistral and Wayve back Balderton push to champion European tech
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Will Europe’s VCs catch up to the influencer craze?
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Rewriting the M&A playbook: Inside Visma’s acquisition strategy
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The fastest growing legaltech startup teams in Europe
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This ex-Spotify boss is using AI to help VCs tell which startups are '90% bollocks'
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Ex-DeepMind researchers raise $50m for AI science startup Inherent
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Stop telling European founders to move to the US
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Carissa Véliz on the dangers of predictive AI
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Mistral strikes deals with BMW and Airbus in ‘industrial AI’ push
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Inside Mistral’s billion-dollar bet on building Europe’s AI cloud
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Fixing the BaaS bottleneck: How Papaya is redesigning fintech infrastructure
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My startup sent me to a deserted island with no running water
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The 16 Italian and Spanish startups with 200%+ one-year revenue growth
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Bek Ventures, formerly Earlybird Digital East, loses four investment team members in matter of months
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Can AI make us better parents?
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The hidden cost of unstructured data — and how to fix it
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Why women in tech need a spotlight more than ever
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10 Oxford spinouts ready to raise Series A
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Balderton, AVP suffer early blow in ‘unfair prejudice’ case
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Moneybox races to offer AI-powered financial advice — if regulators allow it
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Beyond admin work: How AI is redefining management
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Exclusive: General Catalyst backs YC alum Lucis in $20m Series A
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The AI market feels incredibly acquisitive. Should that change how I pick a company?
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Nordic soonicorns to watch
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Europe has the ambition. The Digital Omnibus must match it
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European sovereignty doesn't mean corporate welfare
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The most active legaltech investors in Europe
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12 Irish startups to watch, according to VCs
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Smart ring maker Oura files for IPO in New York
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100+ companies the €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund could back
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European legaltech mapped: 60+ startups evolving how legal work gets done
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The top investors behind Sifted’s Southern Europe 2026 leaderboard
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The EU is rapidly rewriting the AI Act. What’s changed?
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Exclusive: EQT wants to back UK startups with EU’s €5bn superfund
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Earlybird raising €500m defence fund with French investor AVP, sources say
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KKR backs UK’s newest unicorn in $80m round
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Strike drones startup Stark targeting blockbuster new funding round, sources say
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Beyond a sleek interface: The new wave of European fintech
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Europe has a lead in the quantum race, but US giants are set to acquire it away
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Europe’s AI future depends on UK-France-Germany DARPA alliance, says Nobel winner
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Lexroom CEO: Anthropic won’t kill vertical AI companies
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After struggling to secure a financial adviser, this founder built her own
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European tech's most radical idea? Taking Sunday off
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The unusual business idea that tops Sifted’s latest ranking
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12 more stealth founders quietly building in Europe
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Balderton-backed payments startup Primer raises $100m Series C
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Meet the Sifted 100: Southern Europe's fastest-growing startups of 2026
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EQT has won the EU's €5bn superfund. Now what?
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Inside EQT’s plan for the EU’s €5bn superfund: ‘We have over 100 companies in the pipeline’
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Cohere snaps up second German AI startup weeks after Aleph Alpha deal
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What US chipmaker Cerebras’s IPO could mean for startups like Fractile
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Inside Fintech’s big aaS pivot
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Monzo profits soar amid European expansion
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Mistral strikes second M&A deal in months with Austrian AI startup Emmi
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Exclusive: Index Ventures leads $20m round in AI inspection startup Scope
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AI-powered VC platform Bunch raises $35m Series B
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Investors continue to pile into AI legal tech as Lexroom raises $50m Series B
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The results are in: Europe really must scale up
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Why Santander spinout Mouro Capital is betting on AI: 'We're not fans of the word fintech'
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EU sovereignty push risks harming startups, Synthesia policy chief warns
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EQT beats Atomico to manage €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund
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Sequoia backs AI agents scaleup Dust in $40m Series B
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Exclusive: The ‘lobby wars’ pitting Europe’s chip startups against semiconductor giants
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Investors have poured billions into the DeepMind mafia
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Biohacking is a boys’ club — and it’s failing women
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Dutch dronemaker Destinus in €200m funding talks, reports say
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Tech founders and investors on the Sunday Times Rich List 2026
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Euan Blair’s Multiverse boosts valuation with $70m fundraise
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This 11-person London startup wants to make AI 100x cheaper every year
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M&A: The European startups raising cash and on the hunt for acquisitions
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James Wise on why the Sovereign AI Unit criticism is wrong – and the one company he wishes he’d backed
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The hidden costs of hiring freelancers across borders — and how to avoid them
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Exclusive: The secretive group recruiting whistleblowers to shake up the VC industry
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Exclusive: H Company cofounder steps down as CTO
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ElevenLabs hit with fresh lawsuit over use of voices by Pulitzer and Emmy-winning journalists
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Accel and Thiel’s Founders Fund back Fractile in $220m raise
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Nvidia startup head: ‘Germany is not late’ on AI boom
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The end of app-hopping: How embedded services are redefining the customer experience
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Lovable is promising staff a 10% raise on their work anniversary. Here’s why it won’t catch on
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Why Europe’s AI leaders are heading to Nexus Luxembourg 2026
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25 European YC startups due to raise a Series A
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Inside Legora’s hunt for legal tech acquisitions
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The talent profile Europe's top AI scaleups are chasing
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DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1bn
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How LEAP became a global meeting point for international tech players
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A commercial talent crunch is looming for Europe’s quantum startups
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Europe's hot AI startups set to poach more talent from Big Tech
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The AI energy crisis is bad. Wait until quantum arrives
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12 ETH Zurich spinouts ready to raise Series A
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SPACs and megarounds: What's going on in European quantum?
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How UK investment can transform European scaleups
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The hottest cities for robotics deals in Europe
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What 2,800 funding rounds reveal about how startups spend money
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Legal AI? Apparently, it’s over. Hello, 'Agentic Law'
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Exclusive: Quantum software startup Algorithmiq raises €18m, relocates to Italy
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Missile startups are ‘the new wave’ in European defence
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‘The tools are not being designed for them’: The AI opportunity in Europe’s trades sector
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How Revolut’s new bets division thrives on ‘pivoting, fighting and hustling’
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Arāya Sie Fund raises £7.5m first close for women-led startups amid tech ‘bro renaissance’
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Inside European defence tech: 70+ companies mapped
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Fidelity quietly shuts down VC arm, sources say
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Anthropic vs European AI
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DeepL cuts 250 jobs in push to stay ahead in AI race
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Quantum Motion raises $160m Series C as quantum sector heats up
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A16z leads $16m seed round in Voi cofounder’s new AI startup Pit
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From chargers to code: Europe’s EV infrastructure pivot
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The FOMO files: Europe’s best tech meetups this May
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Revolut alumni raise $6m for palm-scan payments startup
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Can’t code? This startup just raised $9m to make you a workflow automation genius
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15 stealth founders in Europe flying under the radar
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The vague job title catapulting young tech workers to the top
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Silo founder raises €25m for 'Palantir of quantum computing'
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20 early-stage startups to watch from Europe’s fastest-growing Tier 2 hubs
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Health unicorn Doctolib plots £100m UK expansion, acquires London-based Medicus
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Intel's VC arm backs quantum startup Quantware in $178m Series B to kick-start production at ‘industrial scale’
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Revolut mafia: Inside Europe’s biggest fintech’s founder factory
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Y Combinator alum Moritz raises $9m to build a law firm supercharged with AI
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The hidden gender gap in startup hiring
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European startups set to survive AI disruption, according to investors
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