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Professor James Whittington and Dr Ruairidh Battleday unveil breakthrough from stealth frontier AI lab

The cofounders of Prefrontal and Thinking About Thinking are combining AI research with an international scientific community, following a viral discovery ahead of London's AE Global Summit

What I told a room full of Europe's fastest-growing companies

Zoom's Andreas Klauser on what he told founders, investors and startups at Sifted Summit 2026 about AI, revenue, and why growth breaks down after the conversation ends

Are Europe's fastest-growing startups hiring wrong?

A new category of AI-native hiring tools is emerging, designed specifically for founders and hiring teams moving quickly

The executive talent market is divided in two

As the AI era divides the executive talent pool, businesses should avoid looking for the perfect candidate and prioritise business outcomes and decisive hiring processes

Evertrace acquires Veck to strengthen early founder detection

The acquisition brings Veck’s startup discovery capabilities and customers to Evertrace, which now works with more than 300 venture capital funds worldwide

AI takes the easy decisions; leaders must get comfortable with the hard ones

When agents handle the routine calls, what remains for humans is harder, riskier and more exposed

AI is turning finance from reactive to proactive

AI is most valuable when it gives people more confidence and the capacity to do the work they're best placed to do — applying judgement, understanding context and building relationships

Five Luxembourg companies turning traction into growth

Beyond its reputation as a financial hub, Luxembourg is emerging as Europe's launchpad for high-growth tech scaleups

European consumers are begging for better customer support

Customer support has long been designed with businesses in mind but new research by Parloa shows European consumers aren't happy with this strategy

Leatherback is now Foren. The name was the last thing to change

Leatherback has announced its rebrand to Foren, marking the overhaul of its technology and compliance infrastructure to provide businesses with a unified global banking platform

The best AI opportunities for investors may not look like AI companies

It's less about finding the next company with AI in its name and more about finding businesses that can use the technology to create a meaningful advantage

Inside the UK startup building AI’s next enterprise category

Backed by investors including LocalGlobe, Cherry Ventures and Octopus Ventures, Resolutiion is betting that Risk-to-Resolution will be the next breakout wave in enterprise AI

What if companies could finally use their most valuable data?

Some of Europe’s most valuable business data remains largely off limits to AI. New innovations in confidential computing could help change that

Europe's AI moment is moving from hype to execution

At the upcoming HumanX event, founders, investors and policymakers will gather to explore the realities and challenges of integrating AI into businesses

The new impact investing playbook: Why climate investors are moving beyond carbon accounting

European impact investors are broadening their lens beyond carbon emissions to understand how companies interact with climate, resources, nature and human health

Inside Malmö’s bet to turn the city into a testbed for impact innovation

For impact startups, capital and talent aren’t always enough. The Swedish city wants to give founders something else: access to the city itself

The entrepreneurial advantage in a 100-year life

Living the 100-Year Life, will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2026.

Can Europe finance its sustainability ambitions?

Europe has spent much of the past decade constructing a sophisticated architecture around sustainability

Your verified customers are for sale: The rise of account farms

With account farms selling fully verified user profiles, companies must look beyond standard identity documents to spot the signals

Why late-stage secondary offerings are transforming private market access

Inside the 30-year EU initiative turning startup placements into patents

MSCA partnerships operate at a rare level of R&D efficiency: roughly one project, one patent

Luxembourg Venture Days connects capital and dealflow

Meet LPs, investors and high-growth startups and scaleups in one curated event

Amazon is looking for the next generation of climate tech startups

Startups and scaleups with proven sustainability technology can pitch for commercial pilots within Amazon’s European operations

How Ruralis is building a startup in rural Italy

Founded in a village of 3,000 and bootstrapped from day one, the Italian property-management startup is now expanding to the US