Interview | Deeptech | 20 Feb German unicorn Celonis’ secret sauce: universities Celonis is valued at over $2.5bn — but the deeptech company which started as a university project still relishes its research roots.
Analysis | Mobility | 19 Feb What’s next in Europe’s scooter wars? City tenders, operational costs and funding fatigue could all kill European scooter startups this year. But will they?
Analysis | Fintech | 13 Feb Meet the fastest growing fintech startups in Germany Germany is Europe's second largest fintech hub, after the UK. These are the startups which have hired the fastest in the last year.
Analysis | Hardware | 12 Feb Nine mental health startups smashing “taboo” in Europe Global investment in mental health startups has surged to £500m.
News | Fintech | 11 Feb N26 pulls out of the UK, citing Brexit. But numbers suggest the German bank was struggling The German digital bank has pulled the plug just a year into its play in the UK. Has Brexit claimed a major fintech victim, or is this a case of international expansion gone wrong?
Analysis | Venture Capital | 11 Feb Europe’s top Series A investors These are Europe’s top 10 Series A investors, according to Dealroom. But what are they really like — and what do founders think of them?
Analysis | Food | 31 Jan The startups making vegan cheese taste like the real thing First came lab-grown meat; now comes lab-grown cheese.
Interview | Mobility | 30 Jan Is this the future of urban parcel deliveries? Berlin-based e-mobility startup ONO has developed a new type of electric, cargo-carrying vehicle to improve the messy state of urban logistics.
Analysis | Hiring | 28 Jan Europe’s fastest growing startups with female founders Women to watch in 2020.
News | Micromobility | 24 Jan US scooter giant Bird is in talks to acquire German competitor Circ Mobility unicorn Bird is in talks to buy German scooter operator Circ; the first major acquisition in Europe's scooter market. There are likely to be more.
Interview | Future of Work | 24 Jan Meet the young German entrepreneur steering HR into the digital age Munich-based HR tech startup Personio raised a $75m Series C this week led by Accel. But it's not just venture capital funds and customers it's attracting, heaps of people want to work there, too. Why?
News | Fintech | 15 Jan Goldman-Sachs backed fintech Raisin eyes US launch after acquisition Raisin has just made its fourth acquisition in a year, and its first for its upcoming US mission. It's a long road ahead in the US, but it could become the wealth manager's biggest market.
Analysis | Hiring | 9 Jan These are the 12 German startups with the fastest growing teams Some of these fast-hiring German startups have quadrupled their team size in just a year.
News | Mobility | 20 Dec Solar electric car startup Sono Motors has less than two weeks to crowdfund €50m A Munich-based startup has dumped prospective investment deals to embark on an ambitious — some say impossible — crowdfunding campaign to get its solar electric vehicle into production. But will it make it?
Analysis | Digital Banks | 18 Dec Digital banks Monzo, Revolut, Starling and N26 compared Sifted digs into the numbers behind these leading fintechs
News | Venture Capital | 13 Dec Atomico launches second angel programme The European venture capital fund has given 15 new angels across Europe $100,000 each to invest in early-stage startups — and is honing in on female founders and sustainability.
