Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

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

On this week’s Newsroom episode, where we ask our journalists what they’re hearing as they report on Europe’s tech industry, Amy"s joined by senior reporter Anne Sraders. Anne reports on one of the continent’s most hyped sectors: defence tech, a market that is booming as governments put large sums of cash behind plans

This week Amy is joined by Zoe Hewitt, VP of talent at legendary Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia, where she helps its portfolio companies find and hire talent based in Europe. That makes her one of the continent"s best informed people as to what is going on with tech talent today, in a world where startups and scaleups

Ever fancied hearing Brad Pitt speak flawless Mandarin? That’s the kind of trick Synthesia’s hyper-realistic video avatars can pull off. The London-based unicorn, which uses generative AI to make videos for corporate training and internal comms, has been a big hit among enterprise users — its customer list includes mor