# Analysis

The billion-dollar question: How will the neolabs actually make money?

Expect products as soon as Q3 from some, while others are focused on longer-term goals

What the CEO of Irish unicorn Tines learned from its AI overhaul

Eoin Hinchy says his software company was “destined for the scrapheap” unless it made its platform "AI-native"

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

Why European VCs are quietly cheering the chip rout

The chip rout could put more emphasis on next-generation chip design and architecture, say investors

Every European unicorn exit of 2026 so far

Seven billion-dollar startups have already found a buyer or hit the public markets in 2026 — matching Europe’s previous annual record

The European startups offering the highest salaries

Sifted found 18 European startups advertising roles paying at least €200k

Meet the team helping Yann LeCun build AI startup AMI Labs

Dozens of Meta alumni have followed LeCun to join the buzzy world models startup

UK defence tech has ‘high hopes’ for new finance minister John Healey

Founders and investors say appointment 'signals seriousness' to NATO allies

'If you're not AI-native, you're not getting funded': European fintech's H1 funding figures

H1 2026 delivers lowest deal count for fintech in over a decade

Europe’s VCs are increasingly taking on jobs at their startups

More European VCs are adding operating roles to their CVs while remaining investors

Europe’s ‘real’ founder factories: Klarna and Improbable

Working at a growth-stage startup — rather than a unicorn or Big Tech firm — is the strongest predictor of a founder's future success, according to a new study of over 50k startups

The people set to influence tech policy in Burnham’s Britain

Here are the other movers and shakers you should be watching

How tourist investors fell out of love with European tech's once-hottest sector

Agnostic funds’ fintech portfolio share has declined by almost two-thirds

‘Physical AI is Europe’s last chance to be useful to the world’

At Paris's Machina conference, European robot makers jostle for attention — and for an answer to the question: can the continent keep up?

Over $500m in fresh funding, risks of “French state influence” and a 100x valuation: What Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal

The French scaleup is set to float on Nasdaq later this year thanks to a SPAC merger

Not all ARR is created equal

ARR treats a euro from an individual consumer as identical to that from an enterprise

IQM investors applaud ‘very good’ debut on public markets

The Finnish quantum scaleup became Europe’s first publicly traded quantum company when it floated last week

Anthropic release puts science startups on the defensive

The US AI giant has unveiled a new set of tools designed to automate scientific research

French bid to block UK from €5bn EU fund sparks backlash

Founders and investors divided over British involvement in Scaleup fund

Startups and VCs divided over UK’s long-awaited defence investment plan

Some of Europe's top drone startups are eagerly awaiting more UK defence spending

How Revolut alumni are spreading its ‘bet factory’ model

A growing number of ex-Revoluters are building companies designed to spin up new products the way Europe's biggest fintech does

The seed rounds you may have missed in H1

Forget the headline-grabbers like AMI Labs and Ineffable Intelligence — here are the overlooked deals of the first half of 2026

Europe’s investors eye nuclear startups amid ‘massive scramble’ for sovereign energy

Some investors report seeing more nuclear startups in the market, but big challenges remain

Andy Burnham was Manchester tech’s ‘hype man’. Will he be the same for Britain?

Over the past decade, Andy Burnham has overseen one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech hubs as mayor of Greater Manchester