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July 20, 2026

How Daniel Ek is building his ‘new European dream’

Neko Health and Helsing have raised rounds at higher valuations than most of their US competitors

John Thornhill

4 min read

Much acclaim (and money) has been heaped on Elon Musk for building businesses in industries as diverse as electric cars, space rockets, brain computer implants and AI models. The manic South African-born entrepreneur is an all-ranting, all-tweeting one-man conglomerate with a magic capitalistic touch, conjuring up companies with a combined value of more than $3tn.

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John Thornhill

John Thornhill is Sifted’s founder and innovation editor of the Financial Times. He tweets from @johnthornhillft

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