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LIVE: Europe’s fastest-growing startups in 2025 🌟 This year’s cohort generated €6.3bn in revenue in the last financial year, proving Europe’s startup ecosystem is building companies that could define Europe’s future. Meet the rising stars 👉 sifted.eu/intelligence/r…

UK finance minister Rachel Reeves this week announced a package of support for the UK's quantum companies. But is it enough? sifted.eu/articles/rache…

Cross-border stock options, specialised courts and a unified company register were among the EU Inc proposals. sifted.eu/articles/eu-in…

EXCLUSIVE: The healthcare sector is emerging as a key market for AI agents, with several startups currently building technologies in the space. sifted.eu/articles/index…

NEW: Dutch tech was on the up last year, with equity funding rising from €2.5bn to €3.6bn, according to Sifted data Startups in the Netherlands to watch, according to VCs sifted.eu/articles/start…

UK grant giver Innovate UK gets a refresh: “We want to make it simpler and easier for companies to work with us” sifted.eu/articles/innov…

From early-stage startups to established multinationals, businesses are leveraging the UK’s Industrial Strategy and trade agreements to expand faster and reach customers around the world. sifted.eu/articles/europ…

NEW: Launching today, the Sifted 100: UK and Ireland ranks the region’s fastest-growing startups sifted.eu/articles/wellb…

EXCLUSIVE: This week the French fintech announced it has reached profitability for the first time in 2025 sifted.eu/articles/alma-…

LATEST: The deals comes just 12 months after the company raised a $115m Series C sifted.eu/articles/upves…

OPINION: Homegrown success is supercharging demand for alternatives to American infrastructure. sifted.eu/articles/finte…

NEW: The Netherlands has seen both startup funding and its overall deal count rise in recent years, according to Sifted data. sifted.eu/articles/nethe…

Europe's home to a cohort of young companies building data centres to meet the surging demand for computing power. sifted.eu/articles/europ…

Can the ecosystem's new mantra survive the inevitable next wave of pessimism? Londonmaxxing has got my cortisol spiking. sifted.eu/articles/londo…

NEW: The first batch of AI companies chosen for Station F's new F/ai programme. sifted.eu/articles/the-2…

JUST IN: Sifted tracks the 106 busiest cheque writers of the year. These were the most active AI investors in 2025. sifted.eu/articles/most-…

LATEST: A number of recent growth fund announcements aim to fill the homegrown late stage funding gap. sifted.eu/articles/europ…

NEW: Elena Mazhuha, partner at VC firm F1V, shares her unillustrated guide to the investors you'll meet out there. sifted.eu/articles/the-a…

'Some people are asking, who is selling secondaries? It's the wrong question. Who is not selling?' sifted.eu/articles/europ…

SCOOP: The founder of fintech unicorn Allica Bank court has filed a case against an investor of the startup, court filings show. sifted.eu/articles/allic…

Fintech giant Wise is readying plans to crack the American market, months after announcing plans to shift its primary listing from London to the US sifted.eu/articles/wise-…