Analysis | Startup Life | 19 Feb Europeans are obsessed with profits Beyond mega fundraising rounds and valuations, there’s an increasing number of European entrepreneurs putting profitability first to grow global champions.
Interview | Mobility | 7 Feb Cracking the code to European expansion, Virtuo’s way With 70% of its sales coming from returning clients, Paris-based startup Virtuo is looking to build on customer loyalty to expand into Germany and Italy next.
Interview | Payments | 31 Jan What Europe can learn from Africa’s mobile wallets France’s Famoco has deployed 250,000 of its secure payment terminals, most of which in Africa. Now with a €20m fundraise it wants to bring African innovation back to Europe.
Interview | Regulation | 29 Jan Hey regulators: just let go Can regulation spur innovation? France’s telecoms watchdog is pushing for a new regulatory style to spawn a wave of “regtech” startups.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 21 Jan Selling to businesses is hard, selling to the military is harder 1,200 startups come to defense giant Thales each year to tap otherwise inaccessible army contracts. In turn, their technology means faster, cheaper military innovation.
Interview | Quantum | 9 Jan What Europe needs to survive the quantum wars Is quantum just another technological leap that will leave Europe on the side of the road?
Analysis | Healthtech | 31 Dec The best of Sifted: Healthtech Startups are reinventing how people take care of themselves. Here are Sifted's health (and sleep, and sex, and pet...) tech must-reads.
Analysis | Mobility | 30 Dec The best of Sifted: Mobility and travel We'll still be talking about electric scooters, driverless vehicles and flying cars in 2020. So you'd better catch up on Sifted's mobility and travel must-reads.
Analysis | Fintech | 27 Dec The best of Sifted: Fintech 2019 has been about more than just mega-fundraisings in the fintech space. Here are Sifted's must-reads of the year.
Analysis | Other | 25 Dec Sifted’s Christmas selection box 12 pop quiz questions and just as many Sifted must-reads to get all the answers right.
News | Cities | 19 Dec Chaotic strikes push Parisians to startup way 15 days of French strikes force Parisians to explore alternatives for mobility and getting work done. Startups like BlaBlaCar, Cityscoot, Zenpark and Neo-nomade are some of the winners.
Interview | Wellbeing | 13 Dec All work and no play makes you a dull founder French investor Jean de la Rochebrochard says creating a company isn’t about working infinite hours. His book ‘Human Machine’ reflects a maturing startup ecosystem’s introspection about work-life balance.
News | Property | 26 Nov Europe’s answer to Airbnb is all about local community Leavy.co, which announced a $14m funding round on Tuesday, was conceived as a way to broaden the reach of the short-term online apartment rentals popularised by Airbnb.
