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May 20, 2026

Meet the Sifted 100: Southern Europe's fastest-growing startups of 2026

Italian hotel booking site Hotiday tops latest Sifted ranking

Éanna Kelly

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Hotiday, a Milan-based startup that sublets hotel rooms and rents them to travelers, tops the third Sifted 100: southern Europe Leaderboard — an annual ranking of the 100 fastest-growing companies in the region, in partnership with AI infrastructure company Nebius.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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