Oja wants to diversify the grocery delivery industry to cater to the UK’s immigrant and non-white communities — and it's just bagged $3.3m.

Afrocenchix, which sells hair care products for afro and curly hair, has today announced it’s secured $1.2m in seed funding from Google. 

Auxxo is a new $15m fund to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies with at least one female cofounder.

There are few things as inviting as financial jargon. That's why Juno wants to gamify financial education, targeting women across Europe.

The private satellite launcher has pulled in $330m in VC cash in five years and notches the biggest global spacetech round so far in 2023.

Klarna’s cofounder is launching the biggest impact fund for early-stage tech startups in Europe — and he wants to convince other VCs to follow suit.

Freetrade has made millionaires out of at least 6 of its earliest crowdfunding investors. The company has delivered a 47x return since 2016.

Element will supply half a million licences to the German education system. The size of the deal dwarfs the 350,000 seat IBM deal won by Slack.

More than 350 investors make up our list of female VC partners in Europe — here's who they are, and what they're investing in.

UK-based Yuty is on a mission to diversify the beauty industry — and it's using sustainable AI to reach an eco-conscious customer base.

German investor Frank Thelen is trying to persuade European rich to back tech startups rather than buying yet another hotel.

Sifted asked some of Spain’s leading women investors about their track record on diversity

We asked leading Portuguese investors which non-portfolio under-the-radar local startups they’re keeping their eye on

With bitcoin above $40,000, there are a lot of happy investors. But which startups are making money from the gold rush?

Meet Europe’s next generation of VC investors, aged 25 and under.

Tradable sports tokens are taking the NFT craze into the mainstream. Sorare has becomes France's highest-valued unicorn.

Which startups in Turkey could get on Getir’s level of success next? Four Turkish investors weigh in.

Station F’s ecosystem survey looks at how startups are coping with fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The answer is: mostly well.

The UNI-X fund will back European pre-seed and early-seed companies while cooperating with 45 professors from universities in the region.

But can the London fund prove that its unconventional sourcing and selection strategy can generate big financial returns for its investors?

Arrival, a British startup which produces zero-emission public transit vehicles, has gone public on the Nasdaq at a valuation of $13bn.

He's running France's hottest startup while hobnobbing with some of the world's biggest sports stars. So why isn't Julia breaking a sweat?

The nominations are in! Sifted has selected over standout 80 European founders and companies shaping the post-pandemic world.

Building a super app in Europe is key to the region's fintechs staying competitive with other companies in the US and Asia.

The Debut Sessions launches today; it offers UK founders raising their first round a chance to pitch to investors remotely.

The £1bn package follows a campaign by influential figures in the UK tech community and will see the government giving convertable loans to startups.

Older (female) employees can have a real edge in startup workplaces. If that's you, here's why you should consider joining a startup.

Europe is tech underdog now, but it can leverage its expertise in frontier tech, powerful institutions and ability to attract talent to win the next decade.

More than 90% of angel investors in the UK are male, and 93% of them are white, but a new scheme by VC firm Ada Ventures is determined to change that. 

Alwyn Jones is leaving Monzo, putting the fintech in the market for a new CFO alongside Revolut and Starling.

Element has seen a fivefold increase in its new users, as the company benefits from fears about WhatsApp's controversial new data policy.

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?

One of the trickiest challenges facing any ambitious fast-growing European startup is how to pick the right VC firm to lead your next funding round.

Female founders: From Leavy's Aziza Chaouachi to Cluno's Christina Maria Polleti and Cluno, meet the women leading fast-growing startups in Europe.

Four diversity champions across Europe share ideas for improving the tech sector

UK pension funds hold more than £2.5tn in assets, yet hardly invest at all in venture capital. New rules announced by Jeremy Hunt hope to unlock some of that capital

Lilium, the German flying taxi startup will start operating from a vertiport near Orlando from 2025 connecting to other Florida cities.

Exclusive: Pink Salt Ventures is welcoming Founders Factory's Saloni Bhojwani and launching a new fund to invest in women.

Investors ,EUROPEAN INVESTORS, ,Now is the time to double down on building your product and business. Why not chat with our sponsor www.kanso.io (who have kindly provided resource to get this list...

Here are the most prominent early-stage fintech VCs in Europe (2015-2019). They share what they're betting big on in the space, and what's to come.

The famed scout programme from US VC firm Sequoia has launched in Europe. We meet its first scouts on the continent.

Latvia has joined fellow Baltic nations Lithuania and Estonia as the most startup friendly countries in the world.

Newly updated: Sifted's comprehensive list of 250+ active female angel investors in Europe

From digital health whizzes to femtech gurus, meet the healthtech Twitter influencers you should follow.

A new model of startup governance is finding its footing, but can VCs be convinced to invest millions into worker-owned co-ops?

Who are the 17 European seed-stage companies in the inaugural cohort of US VC heavyweight Sequoia's startup accelerator programme Arc?

A group of Spanish engineers are teaming up with Seat and local hospitals to create an emergency breathing aid out of simple materials.

Born out of a Black-led angel group, Cornerstone VC has just raised a £20m fund to invest in diverse founders in the UK.

She’s the head of Station F, Paris’ startup mega campus — and the (non-French) face of French tech. But who, really, is Roxanne Varza?

We take a look at the scooters startups that have sprung up across Europe and the VCs brave (or bonkers) enough to back them.

The pandemic hasn't been easy for the fintech sector, but here are the European players that (impartial) investors say will thrive

Some of Europe's most successful startup hubs are tiny towns, not capital cities. For example Oulu, Oss, Montpellier and Sandwich.

If you want to understand the exciting world of French tech and startups, you need to follow these Twitter accounts.

Connor Leahy reverse-engineered GPT-2 in his bedroom — and what he found scared him. Now, his startup Conjecture is trying to make AI safe