Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

This week it"s another special episode from the Sifted Summit, with senior reporter Kai Nicol-Schwarz sitting down with serial entrepreneur Alex Depledge — founder of Resi and Hassle.com, and now entrepreneurship advisor to UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Alex shares her experience of navigating government and trying to m

This week, Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is joined by head of research Jonathan Sinclair and senior reporter Kai Nicol-Schwarz to unpack the state of AI in Europe. Funding for European AI-native companies has nearly doubled to €8.9bn this year, and acquisitions hit a record high of 18 last month — all while valuations contin

This week host Amy Lewin sits down with Erin Platts, CEO of Octopus Ventures. Erin joined Octopus at the beginning of this year after a two decade stint at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), where she oversaw UK operations throughout its dramatic collapse in 2023. Erin walks Amy through the climactic weekend that SVB went unde

This week it’s another special episode recorded live at the Sifted Summit, with host Amy sitting down with Sequoia Capital’s Luciana Lixandru. Luciana, who established the legendary Silicon Valley firm"s presence in Europe in 2020, discusses the continent’s “Act Two”, and ambitions to build $100bn companies. She talks

This week it"s the first in a series of special episodes recorded in front of a live audience at the Sifted Summit, and we"re kicking off with a bang: a fireside discussion between former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Sifted"s founder and editorial director John Thornhill. They discuss the ongoing AI revolution, with Eri

This week the Sifted Podcast comes to you live from Italian Tech Week, where Amy sat down with Milda Jasaitė, the head of second-hand marketplace Vinted"s new investment arm: Vinted Ventures. It"s fairly unusual in Europe for a startup like Vinted, that"s only been profitable for a couple of years, to launch a venture