How To | Funding | 13 Dec The Sifted take on startup crowdfunding Crowdfunding has become a go-to form of fundraising for companies — big and small. Here's what you need to know before you embark on your crowdfunding journey.
Interview | Venture Capital | 12 Dec The Scot who helped turn Peter Thiel-backed startup Xero into a €7bn business Gary Turner, a 51-year-old college drop out, has helped accounting software provider Xero to grow into a €7bn business.
Analysis | Corporate Innovation | 10 Dec “Forget the money, startups” says chief executive of German unicorn Otto Bock The chief executive of Europe's 100-year-old unicorn tells founders to stop focusing on profit.
Interview | Healthtech | 10 Dec With €2.7m Iceland’s star therapy startup is springing into Europe “Leaving Iceland is something I should have done earlier,” says Kara Connect founder and chief executive Thorbjorg Helga.
Interview | Startup Life | 6 Dec Formation: the Berlin-based company builder with a difference It's free, run by volunteers, for underrepresented founders and named after a Beyoncé song. What's not to love about company builder Formation?
News | Health | 14 Nov Peanut app launches ‘Trying to Conceive’ safe space for aspiring mothers Peanut hopes that hopeful mothers will talk candidly and openly on the new 'Trying to Conceive' social media channel.
Opinion | Corporate Innovation | 12 Nov Why your big-spending corporate venture strategy is all wrong Corporate venture capital fund sizes are creeping up — the median is now above $75m — but $150,000 might go just as far as $500,000 in this industry.
Analysis | Funding | 16 Oct Europe’s top tech startups to know Sifted's team of reporters across the continent dig into the data, strategy and challenges behind the most important and dynamic startups in Europe.
News | Health | 14 Oct Visionable is using 5G to build smart ambulances Will the ‘Skype for doctors’ startup transform health?
Analysis | Funding | 7 Oct European startups won €8.7bn of VC investment last quarter — with three countries continuing to dominate The summer months saw a boom in venture funding for European startups, a new report reveals. And 2019 is now set to be a record year — particularly for the UK, Germany and France.
Interview | Health | 3 Oct Britain’s $1bn robot surgeon startup is taking on “unloved” medtech The man behind the machine: CMR Surgical's Martin Frost is rolling out robot surgeons into hundreds of hospitals.
News | Investment | 30 Sep An Icelandic startup has been acquired by a billion-dollar blockchain giant A little-known tech company from Iceland has been bought by one of the biggest - and most controversial - companies in crypto.
News | Fashion | 23 Sep Fashion startup Lookiero bags $19m: “We’re not worried about Stitch Fix” With £120m poured into fashion startups Outfittery, Thread and Lookiero, the battle of the AI fashion boxes is on.
Analysis | Funding | 3 Sep Beware Europe: Top 5 crowdfunding fiascos The European Commission is trying to promote crowdfunding as another source of financing for startups. But these projects do not always go as planned...
Places | VC | 3 Sep Why is Dutch VC investment lagging? The Netherlands has produced 15 unicorns and the pace is accelerating. But someone seems to have forgotten to tell the VCs about the party.
Analysis | Health | 30 Aug Theranos failed hard, but did it also prove the market? Meet the founders building blood test startups in a post-Theranos world. "Theranos brought medical diagnostics to the forefront."
