# Fastest-growing startup teams

The fastest-growing spacetech startup teams in Europe

Europe's spacetech sector is having a breakout year, and startups are hiring fast to keep up.

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

The fastest growing legaltech startup teams in Europe

The European legal tech startups with the biggest increase in headcount over the past 12 months, as per LinkedIn data

The UK and Ireland’s 10 fastest-growing fintechs by revenue

Payments, lending and infrastructure startups are the setting the pace

The 10 fastest-growing European startup teams in 2025

Sifted ranks the top 10 fastest-growing startups by employee growth over the past 12 months

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing AI agent startups

2025 has seen investors pour record amounts of funding into the sector

The fastest-growing hardware startup teams in Europe

Companies working on everything from autonomous strike drones to plug and play solar generators are ramping up recruitment

Europe’s fastest-growing defence startup teams in 2025

Defence startups, fueled by VC hype and money, are rapidly growing their headcounts

The fastest-growing climate techs in the Nordics and Benelux have one thing in common

Half of them are based in Stockholm

The fastest-growing fintechs in the Nordics and Benelux

The Nordics and Benelux regions continue to show their expertise in fintech

The investors behind the Nordics’ and Benelux's fastest-growing startups

EIT tops the list of public investors, with stakes in 11 of the 100 startups

Europe’s fastest-growing robotics startup teams

There’s a race on to take advantage of improvements in robotics, with some companies going on a hiring tear

The 10 fastest-growing Italian startups

B2B SaaS dominates Italian entries on Sifted’s 2025 France and southern Europe leaderboard

Meet the women founders behind France and Southern Europe's fastest growing startups

Women remain deeply underrepresented in deeptech and fintech

The 10 fastest-growing French startups

Climate techs and AI startups score big on Sifted’s 2025 France and southern Europe leaderboard

Meet DACH and CEE’s fastest-growing climate tech startups

Just 12 climate techs made it onto the Sifted 100 — and software-first models and tiny teams continue to gain speed

Meet the 10 fastest-growing DACH & CEE fintechs

Sifted’s latest ranking reveals the big revenue growers across 25 European countries

DACH and CEE’s fastest-growing healthtech startups by revenue

In the black: DACH & CEE’s fastest-growing and profitable companies

27 of the DACH and CEE region’s 100 fastest-growing startups by revenue growth are also profitable

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing consumer startups by revenue

The Sifted 250 revealed a cohort of consumer-facing travel, mobility and foodtech startups performing well despite dampened VC interest in recent years

Europe’s fastest-growing startup teams (by headcount) in 2024

Which European startups have grown their headcount the most in the last 12 months?

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups by revenue

B2B SaaS featured more on the Sifted 250 than any other vertical. Here’s the pick of the bunch from tech’s most saturated market

Europe’s 10 fastest-growing deeptech startups by revenue

There were few deeptechs featured on Sifted’s ranking of Europe’s 250 fastest-growing startups. These are the ones that made the cut

Digital banking startups dominate list of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs

The top 10 include embedded banking startups, buy now, pay later providers and pet insurtechs