Big Ideas | Mobility | 17 Apr On board: Lilium appoints its first CFO Lilium, the German flying car company, has appointed Christopher Delbrück as its first ever chief financial officer, the latest in a series of "star hires" designed to bolster the business.
Big Ideas | Food | 12 Apr Bug bites: Are insects the new sushi? Edible insect companies are moving into the mainstream with supermarkets increasingly stocking their wares and investors pumping cash into insect farming startups like Ynsect and Protix. But can they overcome the "yuck factor"?
Big Ideas | Mobility | 10 Apr Slovakia’s AeroMobil wants to build flying cars for the rich, not the masses Lilium and Uber are wrong about the flying car market, says AeroMobil.
Big Ideas | Hiring and workforce | 9 Apr European developers are cheaper and more loyal than those in the US Among the things we learned from the Stack Overflow developer survey: Eastern European developers are optimistic. UK and German ones are loyal. And female developers are leaving.
Brunch with Sifted | Computing | 8 Apr Eben Upton: Blowing a Raspberry Pi at the computer industry The credit card-sized kids' computer has grown up into an education, publishing and retail operation. And the device is increasingly being picked up by business users too.
Big Ideas | Accelerators | 31 Mar Can L’Oreal’s beauty accelerator in Paris help it keep up with the Kardashians? How well is the beauty industry's latest attempt to get "down with the kids" working? We caught up with Sillages Paris and Sampler.io, veterans of the programme.
Big Ideas | Engineering | 22 Mar Are diamonds the next silicon? Forget jewellery: Lab-grown gems will fuel advances in medical imaging and quantum computing, says Swiss startup LakeDiamond.
Big Ideas | Hiring and workforce | 20 Mar Does Europe need to fix “monkey money” stock options? More than 500 founders and startup executives have joined the campaign to change the region's “punitive” employee ownership rules
Big Ideas | Ecommerce | 10 Mar Hair colour market to get a digital makeover Josh Wood, hair colourist to the stars, raises $6.5m to take his home hair kit business to the (online) masses.
In Practice | Law | 8 Mar How to legal-proof your startup: 6 mistakes to avoid Sifted asked leading startup lawyers what one legal issue they would advise founders to consider early.
Voices | Hiring and workforce | 7 Mar “I’d always thought of technology as nerdy” Twelve-year-old Leila Palmer tells Sifted about her experience of Microsoft’s DigiGirlz event to get young girls into tech.
Places | Cities | 5 Mar Insider view: Toulouse’s IoT and transport startups The "Pink City" is home to an IoT valley and a cluster of transport startups that have grown up around Airbus.
In Practice | Health | 4 Mar “The sense of hustle is back” says Open Bionics The Bristol-based company that makes bionic arms for amputees raised $4.6m in January. Now it is planning to take on the US.
Places | Cities | 25 Feb Insider view: Bristol’s deep chip expertise Bristol's deep history of semiconductor development is producing a new crop of companies like Graphcore.
Big Ideas | Core tech | 15 Feb How tech is about to get touchy-feely Gesture and touch-based haptic technology is changing the way we interact with machines.
Big Ideas | VC | 12 Feb Rise of the machines in VC investing Can artificial intelligence find winning early-stage tech investments better than humans?
