Sifted Summit opened its fifth edition yesterday, and the big headline from the day: the EU's €5bn Scaleup Fund is officially able to invest in UK companies, despite no British capital being committed to the pot yet.
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October 1, 2026
Sifted Summit day one: dispatched
Featuring Zeynep Yavuz Wilson, Sir Nick Clegg, UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan and Max Junestrand
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Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .
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