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?
Opinion | Education | 18 Feb Why Europe is so far from its first edtech unicorn European governments and investors need to step up to fund the digital innovation that is desperately needed in the classroom.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 4 Feb “You need to know where the bodies are buried” Christina Wallace, entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, on how to hack corporate red tape and get innovation ideas through.
Opinion | Media | 4 Feb When the world turns against tech How to keep your startup safe when governments, regulators, the press and the public turn against tech.
Interview | Payments | 31 Jan What Europe can learn from Africa’s mobile wallets France’s Famoco has deployed 250,000 of its secure payment terminals, most of which in Africa. Now with a €20m fundraise it wants to bring African innovation back to Europe.
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.
Interview | Regulation | 29 Jan Hey regulators: just let go Can regulation spur innovation? France’s telecoms watchdog is pushing for a new regulatory style to spawn a wave of “regtech” startups.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 21 Jan Selling to businesses is hard, selling to the military is harder 1,200 startups come to defense giant Thales each year to tap otherwise inaccessible army contracts. In turn, their technology means faster, cheaper military innovation.
Opinion | Government | 16 Jan “Regulation is not a means to all ends,” EU tech companies tell Brussels An open letter from the European Tech Alliance (EUTA), which represents some of Europe’s largest technology companies, to the new EU Commission.
Interview | Quantum | 9 Jan What Europe needs to survive the quantum wars Is quantum just another technological leap that will leave Europe on the side of the road?
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 | Healthtech | 31 Dec The best of Sifted: Healthtech Startups are reinventing how people take care of themselves. Here are Sifted's health (and sleep, and sex, and pet...) tech must-reads.
Opinion | Investment | 30 Dec The three things that changed the face of European tech The beginning of a new decade is a good time to reflect. And it’s clear that European tech is entering the 2020s in much better shape than it had started the 2010s.
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.
