# Features

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

Blossom Capital is dipping into defence. Here’s what the VC is looking for

The firm invested in three defence startups in the last year

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

Adyen is coming for agentic payments. Can startups keep up?

A handful of European startups specialising in agentic payments have emerged in recent years

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

How to give your elevator pitch to a king

Founder Varun Bhanot found himself at St James's Palace recently with mere seconds to explain his AI product to King Charles

'I'd do things differently than Elon Musk': The free founder crash course teaching teenagers to break into tech

Fed up with the lack of opportunities for young people, two angel investors are running a week-long programme to introduce 16-18 year olds to startups

One of Europe’s most active LPs is looking for VCs with ‘industrial know-how’

British firm Molten Ventures is eyeing specialist funds in areas like space, defence and health

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

ETN steps up bid to become Europe’s TBPN with $1.6m raise: ‘We’re taking this incredibly seriously’

Cofounders win backing of Powerhouse Capital and Axel Springer ahead of relaunch

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

Mollie doubles down on Europe with €350m expansion plan: ‘Superapp is a convoluted word’

The Dutch payments fintech has committed millions to becoming a ‘one-stop’ shop for Europeans

From Tesla to building humanoids: Uma cofounder on why Europe is ‘the best market in the world’

Uma launched nine months ago to build ‘frontier capabilities’ for humanoid robots in industrial and domestic environments

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

Neko raises $700m Series C: ‘We now have 100k members and are profitable at clinic level’

Sifted sits down with CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne at its new clinic in Stockholm

Peter Sarlin’s NestAI wants to help Europe reduce reliance on foreign models for defence

The startup is launching AI models for defence it says will help Europe own and control its own tech, reducing reliance on foreign providers

‘When we see an opportunity, we’ll go for it’: Harvey’s VP of EMEA on M&A, hiring, and pushing beyond law

The US unicorn has launched in new European markets this year with plans to double its headcount in the region by the end of 2026

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