LIVE: Europe’s fastest-growing startups in 2025 🌟
This year’s cohort generated €6.3bn in revenue in the last financial year, proving Europe’s startup ecosystem is building companies that could define Europe’s future.
Meet the rising stars 👉 https://t.co/t2NdWwrugt
Inside EQT’s plan for the EU’s €5bn superfund: ‘We have over 100 companies in the pipeline’.
The Swedish firm beat out British VC Atomico to run the EU’s new €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund.
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How do you grow revenues by 1000% in just three years?
Sifted spoke to Milan-based holiday booking startup Hotiday about its unique model, the challenges it’s faced and the rapid growth driving its expansion.
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LATEST: Meet the Sifted 100: Southern Europe’s fastest-growing startups of 2026.
Italian hotel booking site Hotiday tops latest Sifted ranking.
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NEW: 12 more stealth founders quietly building in Europe.
The list includes former operators who cut their teeth at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Shopify, Spotify and Amazon.
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INTERVIEW: Why Santander spinout Mouro Capital is betting on AI: ‘We’re not fans of the word fintech’.
The CVC spin out has raised $400m in the first close of its third fund.
https://t.co/bxIFX0JlHW
LATEST: Investors continue to pile into AI legal tech as Lexroom raises $50m Series B.
The startup has developed an AI platform it says is used by more than 8,000 law firms and corporate legal teams.
https://t.co/QPfckv1mCI
JUST IN: AI-powered VC platform Bunch raises $35m Series B.
Bunch, an AI-native platform for private markets operations, has raised $35m in Series B funding.
https://t.co/Sb8Gdb08XR
EXCLUSIVE: Index Ventures leads $20m round in AI inspection startup Scope.
Scope, a London-based startup building an AI workflow platform for industrial inspections, has raised $20m.
https://t.co/1M7DMb4jOp
LATESR: Monzo profits soar amid European expansion.
The fintech giant has been expanding across the region Monzo profits soar amid European expansion.
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LATEST: Inside Fintech’s big aaS pivot.
A growing number of fintechs are turning the systems they built internally into “as-a-service” (aaS) businesses sold to other companies.
https://t.co/Ue1ATgtUE2
NEW: What US chipmaker Cerebras’s IPO could mean for startups like Fractile.
US chipmaker Cerebras went public with a 68% IPO day pop last week — and some believe it could open the door for more European AI hardware startups to pursue a public listing.
https://t.co/WtZE4WZFbh
What was James Wise's biggest investment miss?
Listen to our latest podcast episode with James Wise, partner at Balderton Capital, in which he talks about his investment wins and misses, the UK's Sovereign AI unit and AI's public perception problem.
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LIST: The European startups raising cash and on the hunt for acquisitions.
A strategy once reserved for incumbents is now filtering down to younger VC-backed startups, Sifted found.
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NEW: Investors have poured billions into the DeepMind mafia.
Google’s AI lab has had a big impact on the tech world, with countless staff branching out to launch their own ventures.
https://t.co/Y4XsoqJYYy
OPINION: Biohacking is a boys’ club — and it’s failing women
The hottest trends, from cold plunges to intermittent fasting, are not only predominantly male lifestyle choices, but they are actually harmful to women.
https://t.co/n9bkS3ZMH3
EXCLUSIVE: The ‘lobby wars’ pitting Europe’s chip startups against semiconductor giants.
Supported by the European Commission, six chip startups have created a new lobby group to represent their interests.
https://t.co/NFXJh8gSlw