AI safety startups mapped: 37 companies building Europe's trust layer

Amid growing alarm over the threats of a rapidly-developing technology, AI safety has become a catch-all term

London Demo Day 2026: startups to watch

London Demo Day, the annual event where university-founded startups pitch for capital, returned this month

Why Polish startups are growing faster than ever

Polish startups now hold 11 of the 100 fastest-growing spots in DACH & CEE, up from three.

The 10 most capital-efficient startups in DACH and CEE

Nine of the ten most capital efficient companies across DACH and CEE are headquartered in central and eastern Europe

The 10 most capital-efficient startups in the Nordics

The companies from Sifted’s latest Nordics leaderboard making the most revenue with the least capital

9 spinouts that landed Tier-1 seed cheques in 2026

The Technical University of Munich accounts for half the cohort

15 alumni from European unicorns now building in stealth

The flywheel at Europe's tech unicorns is well and truly spinning, with multiple operators spinning out to launch their own thing

University of Glasgow spinouts looking to raise

The university currently supports 30 spinout companies that have collectively secured over £190m in funding

The under the radar venture lab building deeptechs to save the planet

Prosemino portfolio overview

QMUL spinouts looking to raise

Sifted breaks down grant-stage to Series A spinouts from the university that are courting investors

Europe’s 50 most active equity investors in H1 2026

12 investors who recently became founders

A growing number of investors are walking away from the cap table to launch their own startups

222 spinouts, €4.9bn raised: Europe’s top universities for spinout funding in H1 2026

13 early-stage deeptech startups Tier 1 VCs backed in H1 2026

Some of the continent’s most active investors backed companies tackling problems once considered too complicated

The great VC exodus: 14 investors who joined startups

University of Bristol spinouts looking to raise

From pre-seed to Series A spinouts from the university that are courting investors.

European biotech mapped: 90 startups reshaping medicine

From drug discovery to gene editing, these startups are transforming the future of medicine

8 stealth founders using AI to take on the industries they used to work in

They include a former Amazon supply chain operator and an ex-McKinsey consultant taking on the space sector

The 50 fastest-growing European startup teams in H1 2026

Sifted ranks the top 50 fastest-growing startups by headcount growth across the first six months of 2026

University of Edinburgh spinouts looking to raise

Sifted breaks down pre-seed to Series B spinouts from the university that are courting investors

7 TUM spinouts ready to raise their next round

The German spinout factory counts companies like Isar Aerospace and Robco among its alumni

Frontier computing mapped: 70+ companies racing to power the AI era

The startups that could finally shift the continent from consumer to competitor

10 Oxford spinouts ready to raise Series A

Spanning drug discovery, robotics, quantum tech and more — these are the buzziest startups spinning out of Europe's most prolific life sciences university

12 more stealth founders quietly building in Europe

The list includes former operators who cut their teeth at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Shopify, Spotify and Amazon