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Inside Dwelly’s AI-powered rollup playbook

London-based proptech reportedly in talks to raise $200m from General Catalyst and others

Celonis boss: 'If we're honest, AI adoption hasn’t gone as quickly as expected’

Europe chief for the $13bn software giant talks the future of AI, taking on Palantir and buying ‘50 of the cleverest brains on the planet’

How we built our robot dog startup: ‘We took all our VC meetings at Ikea’

Surwera’s founders on how they got into the startup ecosystem to build its mouthy robot dog.

This ex-Spotify boss is using AI to help VCs tell which startups are '90% bollocks'

Henrik Landgren says his AI agents can spot winners and red flags

Moneybox races to offer AI-powered financial advice — if regulators allow it

London-based wealthtech seeks regulatory approval within the next nine months

Europe’s AI future depends on UK-France-Germany DARPA alliance, says Nobel winner

Philippe Aghion won the Nobel prize last year for his creative destruction theory

Lexroom CEO: Anthropic won’t kill vertical AI companies

Paolo Fois, who raised $50m this week, isn’t worried about competition from big LLM players

The unusual business idea that tops Sifted’s latest ranking

Milan-based holiday booker Hotiday has added a dash of Airbnb to its offering — and grown its revenues over 1000% in three years

Inside EQT’s plan for the EU’s €5bn superfund: ‘We have over 100 companies in the pipeline’

The Swedish firm beat out British VC Atomico to run the EU’s new €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund

Why Santander spinout Mouro Capital is betting on AI: 'We're not fans of the word fintech'

The CVC spin out has raised $400m in the first close of its third fund

This 11-person London startup wants to make AI 100x cheaper every year

Doubleword founder Meryem Arik talks securing talent, cutting the cost of AI inference and sovereign compute

Nvidia startup head: ‘Germany is not late’ on AI boom

The titanic chip maker is increasingly pushing into Europe and is eyeing Germany in particular

Inside Legora’s hunt for legaltech acquisitions

The legal tech unicorn has a long list of potential multibillion-dollar acquisition targets

Europe's hot AI startups set to poach more talent from Big Tech

A number of startups like Cusp AI, AMI Labs, Multiverse and Lovable have poached talent from Big Tech — a trend some recruiters think will ramp up

How Revolut’s new bets division thrives on ‘pivoting, fighting and hustling’

The fintech giant’s commercial lead talks weekly pitches, product tests and ruthless hiring strategy

How leftover fish skins landed this founder a billion-dollar exit: ‘My philosophy has always been to have fun’

The founder of Iceland's sole unicorn reveals how he scaled one of the country's most successful tech startups

Zopa looks to make app ‘redundant’ with agentic banking push

CEO Jaidev Janardana shares the fintech’s ‘ambitious’ AI vision.

Baillie Gifford on filling Europe's growth investment gap: 'There’s a dearth of capital in Europe'

With clearly defined guardrails “someone else takes the risk”, says director Alan Coffey

Meet the Swiss founder building robots that make crêpes

Robert Hennig says robots ‘should make people happy’

Inside Earlybird’s succession plan to pass on the management company in 10 years

The firm will pass shares of the management company down to the younger generation of general partners for free — with a caveat

Why a vegan sausage pioneer is setting up an AI law firm called Keith

“I think after illness and relationship breakdown, the biggest source of anguish in life is conveyancing,” says THIS cofounder Andy Shovel — and he's raised £2m to do something about it

Innovate UK: “We want to make it simpler and easier for companies to work with us”

Britain's innovation agency wants to enable breakthrough ideas to become industry giants

Entrepreneurs First crowned a unicorn following $200m fundraise

EF founders are moving faster than ever thanks to relocation to Silicon Valley, says CEO Alice Bentinck

Middle East investors will remain ‘important’ source of capital, says top European LP