Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

Sifted brings you monthly long-form interviews with the biggest names in European startups. We hear from the founders, operators and investors behind the continent's biggest tech companies to learn what makes them tick and what they've learnt while building their businesses.

'Defence is where we can play all our superpowers': Visionaries Club’s Rob Lacher
Jun 12, 2025 – 45:09
What's so special about Lovable?
Jun 6, 2025 – 13:51
'We haven’t made a pitch deck since we started the company': Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
May 22, 2025 – 33:43
How to make partner in less than three years: Cherry Ventures' Dinika Mahtani
Apr 24, 2025 – 43:12
Three exits and a failure: Motorway's Tom Leathes on how to disrupt big industries
Mar 27, 2025 – 46:55
Nord's Tomas Okmanas on why he had to launch an AI startup
Feb 21, 2025 – 30:17
The 101 of angel investing with Jenny Tooth
Jan 24, 2025 – 47:25
Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy
Dec 13, 2024 – 30:33
Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech
Nov 29, 2024 – 36:17
General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas
Oct 11, 2024 – 45:42
Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value
Sep 13, 2024 – 45:55
Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency
Aug 23, 2024 – 38:20
Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall
Jul 26, 2024 – 41:27
DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won
Jun 28, 2024 – 32:10
Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list
May 24, 2024 – 47:19
Sophia Bendz on why Spotify's Daniel Ek hired people with "no track record"
Apr 19, 2024 – 46:35
Why Andreessen Horowitz is betting big on crypto in Europe with Sriram Krishnan
Mar 26, 2024 – 42:41
Hussein Kanji from Hoxton Ventures on how just much he made from investing in Deliveroo and Darktrace
Feb 29, 2024 – 57:29
Glovo's Oscar Pierre on the gig economy and building scaleups in Southern Europe
Feb 15, 2024 – 46:15
Station F’s and Sequoia’s Roxanne Varza on how to stop tech companies moving to the US
Feb 9, 2024 – 41:46
“We’ve made more money than we ever dreamed of”: RELEX Solutions’s Johanna Småros
Dec 18, 2023 – 45:07
Why is Stability AI changing its business model?
Dec 7, 2023 – 26:35
More layoffs at European scaleups as the tech slowdown bites
Nov 30, 2023 – 26:10
HSBC’s Sonya Iovieno on undisclosed down rounds, startups trimming headcount and SVB’s collapse
Nov 23, 2023 – 38:44
Some tech workers are now earning $400k straight out of uni. Why?
Nov 16, 2023 – 37:56
Aleph Alpha raises one of Europe's biggest AI rounds, but is all as it seems?
Nov 9, 2023 – 23:49
Klarna’s workers are going on strike as the company cuts more roles
Nov 2, 2023 – 26:16
France’s big plan for startups
Oct 26, 2023 – 29:22
Babylon: how it all went so wrong
Oct 19, 2023 – 26:19
Interview: Wayve’s Alex Kendall on autonomous vehicles, embodied AI and Elon Musk's U-turns
Oct 12, 2023 – 38:31
Stripe’s John Collison on launching his $50bn business at the age of 19 — Sifted Summit special
Oct 5, 2023 – 32:46
Can French AI startup Mistral ever compete with Big Tech?
Sep 28, 2023 – 27:41
Interview: Seedcamp’s Reshma Sohoni on bunker mentality during a downturn
Sep 21, 2023 – 51:47
European valuations tumble as the great startup fire sale begins
Sep 14, 2023 – 21:13
Interview: ‘The age of AI resembles the age of DaVinci’ — Builder.AI’s Sachin Duggal on the need for polymaths in machine learning
Sep 7, 2023 – 51:02
Klarna is back in black after a tough 2022
Aug 31, 2023 – 23:31
Getir is laying off 2,500 employees to try and survive
Aug 24, 2023 – 29:39
Founder of a top European VC firm accused of sexual harassment
Aug 17, 2023 – 14:31
Which buyer can save Babylon from bankruptcy?
Aug 10, 2023 – 26:45
Hopin: how a $7bn startup fell down in a heap
Aug 3, 2023 – 29:08
Why did VCs' favourite e-bike go bankrupt?
Jul 27, 2023 – 18:44
Interview: Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge on crisis talks at Monzo and building a reproductive healthcare company
Jul 20, 2023 – 59:38
Inside Paris's booming AI scene
Jul 13, 2023 – 32:40
Spotify founder’s new startup finally comes out of stealth with €60m investment
Jul 6, 2023 – 27:56
Millions in shareholder value wiped out as Babylon delists
Jun 29, 2023 – 27:55
Tony Blair on his vision for an AI-powered Britain
Jun 22, 2023 – 46:10
Interview: Chloe Smith MP on unlocking pension funds for tech investment
Jun 15, 2023 – 26:10
Why has Checkout.com slashed its own valuation again?
Jun 8, 2023 – 28:47
Why is Typeform losing market share?
Jun 1, 2023 – 28:59
Interview: Blossom capital’s Ophelia Brown on why crypto isn’t dying, but the UK tech sector might be
May 25, 2023 – 32:51