Opinion | Policy | 29 Jan Ending the app trap: why (and how) we need to reform the gig economy The convenience of the on-demand economy for consumers must not be traded for the financial security and dignity of gig economy workers.
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.
Sponsored News | Marketing | 24 Jan UK startups: 33 rising stars (and just three from London) Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious entrepreneurs, unveils the 33 startups it thinks are set for success.
Interview | Transport | 23 Jan This Hungarian startup is using off-the-shelf cameras and chips to kit out its self-driving cars The big companies are using Lidar cameras for their autonomous cars. But AImotive is taking a different approach.
Analysis | Food | 9 Jan What’s next for on-demand food delivery? Restaurants are fighting back, dark kitchens are heating up and some delivery operators are even giving grocery a go. Read our definitive report on Europe's on-demand food sector.
Interview | Food | 8 Jan The view from the top: Uber Eats on the future of food delivery It’s one of Europe’s mightiest food delivery players, available in more than 250 cities on the continent with over 80,000 restaurants onboard. So what’s Uber Eats’ view on where the sector is heading?
Opinion | Micromobility | 8 Jan Cities need to deliver more effective e-scooter regulation Why Copenhagen's e-scooter tender model is not one to follow — and why other European cities need to enforce bolder regulation of the sector.
Places | Cities | 3 Jan Why startups are relocating to Lisbon and what they’re finding behind the hype Three founders tell us why they moved their companies to the Portuguese capital, and how they feel about it now.
Analysis | Mobility | 30 Dec The best of Sifted: Mobility and travel We'll still be talking about electric scooters, driverless vehicles and flying cars in 2020. So you'd better catch up on Sifted's mobility and travel must-reads.
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?
News | Food | 19 Dec On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises €150m and becomes Spain’s second unicorn The Spanish competitor to Uber Eats and Deliveroo claims it will do what its rivals seem unable or unwilling to do: hit profitability in 2021. We catch up with chief executive Oscar Pierre on wooing investors, dark kitchens and acquisitions.
News | Cities | 19 Dec Chaotic strikes push Parisians to startup way 15 days of French strikes force Parisians to explore alternatives for mobility and getting work done. Startups like BlaBlaCar, Cityscoot, Zenpark and Neo-nomade are some of the winners.
Analysis | Other | 16 Dec 2020 Vision: predictions from 28 big-hitters in Europe’s startup scene What will 2020 bring for European startups? We hear from startup experts such as Jan Hammer at Index Ventures, Taavet Hinrikus at Transferwise and Roxanne Varza at Station F.
News | Artificial Intelligence | 16 Dec DeepMind exec Andrew Eland leaves to launch startup The startup, called Diagonal Works, aims to find new ways to improve towns and cities with software.
Analysis | Micromobility | 11 Dec Electric scooters: not so “green” after all Electric scooter operators all claim to be environmentally-friendly alternatives to the car — but how green are these businesses? We compare Europe's operators.
Opinion | Logistics | 4 Dec My 500-unit pizza business started as a “delivery only” shop and I don’t believe in dark kitchens Cheap rent won't make food cheaper, building brands online is hard and quality is tough to maintain, argues Fyodor Ovchinnikov of Dodo Pizza
