Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is Sifted's associate editor. She covers UK tech and leads Sifted's investigations. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

Exclusive: The secretive group recruiting whistleblowers to shake up the VC industry
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Exclusive
May 14, 2026
Exclusive: The secretive group recruiting whistleblowers to shake up the VC industry
"All powerful industries need accountability"
Freya Pratty
Accel and Thiel’s Founders Fund back Fractile in $220m raise
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May 13, 2026
Accel and Thiel’s Founders Fund back Fractile in $220m raise
Fractile has been repeatedly name checked by UK government officials
Freya Pratty
DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1bn
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May 12, 2026
DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1bn
The UK’s Sovereign AI fund has backed the company
Freya Pratty
A PhD pivot, a stint in VC and a rumoured Anthropic deal: why Europe is watching Walter Goodwin
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Profile
May 12, 2026
A PhD pivot, a stint in VC and a rumoured Anthropic deal: why Europe is watching Walter Goodwin
‘He projects this underlying inevitability to what he is building towards’
Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Freya Pratty
DeepL cuts 250 jobs in push to stay ahead in AI race
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May 7, 2026
DeepL cuts 250 jobs in push to stay ahead in AI race
The cuts came after the DeepL's leadership team analysed how best it could operate in the AI era
Freya Pratty
11 AI operators to watch in Europe
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List
April 23, 2026
11 AI operators to watch in Europe
Here are the AI operators you need to know about
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Lovable denies mass data breach
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April 20, 2026
Lovable denies mass data breach
A Lovable user claimed a security fault allowed access to user data
Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Freya Pratty
Four-month-old Recursive Superintelligence raises $500m
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April 20, 2026
Four-month-old Recursive Superintelligence raises $500m
Recursive wants to build an AI system that improves by itself, without human involvement
Freya Pratty
Lovable scrambles under pressure from Anthropic
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Analysis
April 16, 2026
Lovable scrambles under pressure from Anthropic
Engineers work through the night to prepare new releases
Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Freya Pratty
The European tech ick list: Emojis, baseball caps and everything-maxxing
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April 15, 2026
The European tech ick list: Emojis, baseball caps and everything-maxxing
The everyday habits making the region’s ecosystem feel just a little more gross
Martin Coulter, Anne Sraders, Freya Pratty and Éanna Kelly
After Orbán? Hungary's tech leaders celebrate with 'cautious optimism'
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Analysis
April 14, 2026
After Orbán? Hungary's tech leaders celebrate with 'cautious optimism'
Removal of authoritarian PM after 16 years signals optimism for homegrown entrepreneurs
Freya Pratty
OpenAI’s Stargate retreat exposes cracks in UK tech ambitions
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Analysis
April 13, 2026
OpenAI’s Stargate retreat exposes cracks in UK tech ambitions
Ministers face tough choices over energy prices, tech sovereignty and partnerships with Big Tech
Freya Pratty and Martin Coulter
AI bubble: Have VCs already forgotten 2021?
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Analysis
April 13, 2026
AI bubble: Have VCs already forgotten 2021?
Future price hikes of AI models could throw startups’ unit economics out of whack
Freya Pratty and Anne Sraders
Here’s how you can secure access to the UK’s most powerful supercomputer
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Features
April 9, 2026
Here’s how you can secure access to the UK’s most powerful supercomputer
Securing access to Isambard sllows startups to train far more powerful AI models than their competitors
Freya Pratty
Over 100 startups left waiting for cash after EU-funded body collapses
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April 2, 2026
Over 100 startups left waiting for cash after EU-funded body collapses
EIT Manufacturing trades blows with former backer EIT after filing for liquidation
Freya Pratty
EQT and Atomico go head-to-head to manage €5bn EU fund
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April 1, 2026
EQT and Atomico go head-to-head to manage €5bn EU fund
A decision regarding the winner of the fund is “imminent”, a source with direct knowledge told Sifted
Anne Sraders and Freya Pratty
Manager decision imminent for EU’s €5bn Scaleup Fund — with fees still to be decided
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April 1, 2026
Manager decision imminent for EU’s €5bn Scaleup Fund — with fees still to be decided
The EU’s hotly contested search for an investor to manage the fund is in the final stretch
Freya Pratty and Anne Sraders
Could the Iran war boost Europe’s climate startups?
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Analysis
March 27, 2026
Could the Iran war boost Europe’s climate startups?
Some VCs report their climate startups are already seeing an increase in sales
Anne Sraders, Daphné Leprince-Ringuet and Freya Pratty
Meet Brahma: the quiet Synthesia rival forecasting $100m in revenue
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March 27, 2026
Meet Brahma: the quiet Synthesia rival forecasting $100m in revenue
Brahma's tech has been used in films like Here, where it was used to make a young version of Tom Hanks
Freya Pratty
Meet the 25 startups selected for UK’s Future Fifty growth programme
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March 23, 2026
Meet the 25 startups selected for UK’s Future Fifty growth programme
UK finance minister Rachel Reeves told the cohort she wants the UK to be somewhere founders can “start, scale and stay"
Freya Pratty and Martin Coulter
Europe's tech bro renaissance is upon us. Sigh
Opinion
March 20, 2026
Europe's tech bro renaissance is upon us. Sigh
The boys are just happy to have found the boys
Freya Pratty
Can Rachel Reeves stop the UK’s deeptech startups drifting abroad?
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Analysis
March 18, 2026
Can Rachel Reeves stop the UK’s deeptech startups drifting abroad?
UK finance minister Rachel Reeves this week announced a package of support for the UK's quantum companies. But is it enough?
Freya Pratty and Tom Nugent
It’s not just Nscale. Here are all of Europe’s neoclouds, mapped
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March 16, 2026
It’s not just Nscale. Here are all of Europe’s neoclouds, mapped
Europe's home to a cohort of young companies building data centres to meet the surging demand for computing power
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Inside the booming secondaries market in Europe: 'Who isn’t selling?’
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Analysis
March 13, 2026
Inside the booming secondaries market in Europe: 'Who isn’t selling?’
Secondaries investors report premiums for the most in-demand names
Amy Lewin, Anne Sraders and Freya Pratty

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Exclusive: The secretive group recruiting whistleblowers to shake up the VC industry

Accel and Thiel’s Founders Fund back Fractile in $220m raise

DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1bn

A PhD pivot, a stint in VC and a rumoured Anthropic deal: why Europe is watching Walter Goodwin

DeepL cuts 250 jobs in push to stay ahead in AI race

11 AI operators to watch in Europe

Lovable denies mass data breach

Four-month-old Recursive Superintelligence raises $500m

Lovable scrambles under pressure from Anthropic

The European tech ick list: Emojis, baseball caps and everything-maxxing

After Orbán? Hungary's tech leaders celebrate with 'cautious optimism'

OpenAI’s Stargate retreat exposes cracks in UK tech ambitions

AI bubble: Have VCs already forgotten 2021?

Here’s how you can secure access to the UK’s most powerful supercomputer

Over 100 startups left waiting for cash after EU-funded body collapses

EQT and Atomico go head-to-head to manage €5bn EU fund

Manager decision imminent for EU’s €5bn Scaleup Fund — with fees still to be decided

Could the Iran war boost Europe’s climate startups?

Meet Brahma: the quiet Synthesia rival forecasting $100m in revenue

Meet the 25 startups selected for UK’s Future Fifty growth programme

Europe's tech bro renaissance is upon us. Sigh

Can Rachel Reeves stop the UK’s deeptech startups drifting abroad?

It’s not just Nscale. Here are all of Europe’s neoclouds, mapped

Inside the booming secondaries market in Europe: 'Who isn’t selling?’