Big Ideas | Gaming | 17 Apr Esports needs to start charging for premium content Esports has 380m fans, but not that much money. Jens Hilgers, one of esports' biggest investors, says the industry needs to rethink how it charges for big events.
Opinion | Funding | 15 Apr “Missing: Working class founders” Investors — and even crowdfunding sites — still throw up too many hurdles for working class founders looking for funding, says our first ‘Secret Founder’ columnist.
Big Ideas | Mobility | 2 Apr From Voi to Flash, we compare Europe’s scooter startups Scooter mania is sweeping across Europe, as VCs throw cash at a handful of scooter startups in a race to conquer the continent. We meet the contenders — and ask whether investing in scooters is even a good idea?
Big Ideas | Accelerators | 31 Mar Can L’Oreal’s beauty accelerator in Paris help it keep up with the Kardashians? How well is the beauty industry's latest attempt to get "down with the kids" working? We caught up with Sillages Paris and Sampler.io, veterans of the programme.
Opinion | Funding | 27 Mar “Disruptive startups get less money” Disruption has become a hot topic and describing your startup as 'revolutionary' certainly captures investors' attention. But it can be a double-edged strategy.
Opinion | VC | 20 Mar “VCs are exploiting underrepresented people to solve their diversity problems” VCs need to rethink how they're using scouts in a bid to improve their diversity problems, argues Anisah Osman Britton.
In Practice | Hardware | 19 Mar Building a hardware startup in a software age Founders are wary of hardware because, well, hardware's hard. Here's how robot maker Automata has beaten the odds, raised money and dodged supply chain disaster.
Big Ideas | Advertising | 19 Mar Sprayprinter: the graffiti robot startup that’s turning down millions Sprayprinter's wall-scaling robot will paint a mural advert for $10,000 — but only if it's artistic.
Brunch with Sifted | Communities | 17 Mar Sarah Drinkwater: “Are they a good egg?” The ex-head of Google Campus on why tech needs good eggs now, more than ever.
Big Ideas | Music | 14 Mar Gamechanger Audio: The million-dollar startup built in a Latvian garage This 27-year-old founder turned his 'garage band startup' into an overnight success.
Places | Cities | 12 Mar Insider view: Amsterdam’s friendly tech community With two public listings last year, and an ever-closer community, Amsterdam’s startup scene is growing up.
Voices | Energy | 6 Mar How a tiny cleantech company won over the tech billionaires European companies have so far failed to get the famous tech entrepreneurs’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures to notice them – until now.
In Practice | Funding | 1 Mar 7 fundraising lessons from Latvia’s million-dollar startups Rising stars Giraffe360 and Nordigen on the dos and don'ts of startup fundraising.
Voices | Publishing | 21 Feb “Art is never finished, it’s only abandoned.” Jack Conte, the chief executive of artist crowdfunding site Patreon, talks to Sifted about art and business.
Places | Communities | 18 Feb Insider view: Riga’s Old Town tech innovators Riga in Latvia is not only beautiful and affordable, it's the biggest startup hub in the Baltics.
Voices | Health | 15 Feb Adia: My miscarriages exposed an unmet healthtech market Founder Lina Chan is running pilots to link Adia to better mental health — and healthier pregnancies.
