Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

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From 2024 on we'll be bringing you monthly long-form interviews with the biggest names in European startups. We'll 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 as they've built their businesses.

12월 13일

Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy

On 2024's last episode of the Sifted Podcast, Amy is joined by an entrepreneur on a very big mission. Munich-based startup Proxima Fusion is developing a nuclear fusion reactor — a technology which many hope could help solve the climate crisis by producing clean, cheap and abundant energy that could replace a lot of fossil fuel power.But the technical challenges are considerable.Nuclear fusion reactors need to remain stable at incredibly high temperatures, while confining volatile plasma with...

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11월 29일

Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech

Podcast host and Sifted editor Amy Lewin sits down with Petteri Lahtela, founder of smart wearable company Oura Ring, to discuss how the business has grown to making $500m in revenue, hitting profitability and selling more than 2.5m devices in the process.They discuss the big idea behind Oura, how Petteri has turned down multiple offers from buyers and how the company is well poised to pounce on the AI boom with the data it holds.

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10월 11일

General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas

This month we’re joined by Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, managing director at global VC firm General Catalyst and cofounder of La Famiglia VC — a Berlin-based early-stage investor which merged with General Catalyst last year.Jeannette’s investments include companies like HR platform Deel, logistics startup Forto, HR tech unicorn Personio, defence unicorn Helsing and AI unicorn Mistral. She also sits on Helsing and Mistral’s boards, giving her a front seat at two of Europe’s most closely-watched a...

46분
9월 13일

Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value

Avid Larizadeh Duggan, senior managing director at Ontario-HQed growth-stage investor Teachers’ Venture Growth, is one of Europe’s first operator-turned-VCs.Her career in tech began with stints as a product manager at places like eBay and Skype, and has switched between operational and investing roles ever since. In 2021 she joined TVG, which is part of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of the world’s biggest pension funds.Its investments include German AI translation company DeepL, Ger...

46분
8월 23일

Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency

This month we’re joined by Ilan Gur, CEO of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (or ARIA), a government body set up last year to fund ambitious, breakthrough innovations.Before joining Aria, Gur was a programme director at ARPA-E, the US government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was established to develop new cutting-edge technologies to generate, store and use energy. He’s also been a founder — starting two companies in Silicon ValleyWe discuss what technologies he’s ...

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7월 25일

Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall

She’s one of the three founders of Pale Blue Dot, a Malmö-based early-stage climate tech fund which launched in 2020 and backs pre-seed and seed-stage startups reducing and reversing the effects of climate change, in Europe and the US.Pale Blue Dot came along just ahead of the wave of climate tech funds which launched in Europe amid the tech boom. Its portfolio companies include Ember, a Scottish intercity transport startup; Monta, an app connecting charge point owners and electric car driver...

41분
6월 28일

DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won

This week on the pod we’re joined by Jarek Kutylowski, founder and CEO of German AI startup DeepL. He’s built a profitable business in a field where he’s had to compete with the likes of Google, by developing cutting edge language translation technology.The company says it now has “a customer network of 100k+ businesses, governments and other organisations worldwide” including Zendesk, Nikkei, Coursera and Deutsche Bahn. Kutylowski sat down with Sifted editor Amy Lewin to talk about DeepL’s t...

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5월 24일

Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list

Name a big European tech company, and there’s a high chance Martin Mignot, partner at Index Ventures, invested in it. Martin’s portfolio includes some of the continent’s big winners, like car sharing platform BlaBlaCar, digital bank Revolut, digital health provider Kry, HR platform Personio and delivery company Deliveroo — and some of its big failures, including energy supplier Bulb which went bust in 2022. On this month's episode of Startup Europe — the Sifted Podcast, we dig into ...

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Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy

Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech

General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas

Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value

Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency

Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall

DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won

Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list

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Replacing fossil fuels: Proxima Fusion’s Francesco Sciortino on his mission to revolutionise clean energy

Oura Ring founder Petteri Lahtela on fending off acquisition offers from Big Tech

General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg on how to scale European moonshot ideas

Mistral, DeepL and Kry investor Avid Larizadeh Duggan on where AI is creating value

Programmable plants and neurotech devices: Inside the UK government’s £800m “inventions” agency

Climate tech’s growing pains with Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall

DeepL founder Jarek Kutylowski on how his AI startup took on Google Translate — and won

Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot on where Revolut should list

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