https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-girlfriends
Sep 27, 2023 - Romania-headquartered startup DreamGF is helping its customers find the AI-generated girl of their dreams.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/monzo-tom-blomfield-angel-investments
Feb 7, 2023 - Since stepping down from Monzo last year, Blomfield has quietly placed his bets on some 26 fresh companies
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https://sifted.eu/articles/ledger-preps-4bn-ipo-us
Jan 23, 2026 - The scaleup has reportedly tapped bankers at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays to work on the deal
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https://sifted.eu/articles/funding-round-article-is-dead
Nov 28, 2025 - Stop wasting time pitching your startup funding round, writes former Sifted deputy editor Eleanor Warnock. Times have changed
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https://sifted.eu/articles/12-startups-tackling-cancer-to-watch-according-to-vcs
Jun 19, 2023 - VCs from Verve Ventures, MMC Ventures, HTGF and Sofinnova Partners shared their picks
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https://sifted.eu/articles/daya-ventures-company-builder-crowdfunding
Dec 1, 2025 - Venture studio Daya has raised more than €600k through a crowdfunding campaign to build deeptech startups focused on women's health.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/alternative-food-startups-to-watch
Jul 16, 2025 - The alt food startups that VCs from FoodLabs, Planet A and Grey Silo Ventures have an eye on.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/anthropic-legal-ai-startups
Feb 6, 2026 - Europe’s legal AI startups are defending their edge after Anthropic released new tools to automate lawyers' work.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-chip-startup-gemesys-raise-news
Jun 27, 2025 - The company says its aiming to reduce the energy consumption of training and running AI models by 10k times.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/cloudberry-30m-fund-semiconductors
Dec 18, 2025 - The Helsinki and London-based VC will back startups in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials
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https://sifted.eu/articles/northvolt-lays-off-half-of-staff-as-bankrupt-battery-maker-seeks-buyer
Mar 31, 2025 - Embattled Swedish battery-maker Northvolt has laid off more than half of its staff, weeks after filing for bankruptcy.
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Discover the latest dealmaking activity across startup Europe with our weekly Deals Newsletter, including downloadable data.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/healthtech-startups-big-tech-censorship-rules
May 2, 2022 - "Taboo" healthtech startups in Europe are being punished by Big Tech's censorship rules. Here's how they're getting round it.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/french-market-defence-tech-startups
Jan 26, 2026 - While structural challenges remain, some founders see indications of change in France
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https://sifted.eu/articles/b2venture-150-fifth-fund-deeptech
Jan 28, 2026 - The new fund will back up to 35 startups and includes investment from a Swiss pension fund for the first time
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https://sifted.eu/articles/elevenlabs-mati-staniszewski
Jan 8, 2026 - ElevenLabs founder Mati Staniszewski on beating Big Tech giants, why the voice AI unicorn's research edge will fade and why he needed to “force”...
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https://sifted.eu/articles/productivity-hacks-vcs-founders
Apr 10, 2023 - Take your to-do list up a notch with these productivity hacks, from tools to streamline your workflow to life hacks to manage your day.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/relativity-collective-judith-dada-europe-startups
Jan 28, 2026 - Black Forest Labs, DeepJudge and Hugging Face are among the startups to have endorsed the cross-university scheme.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/spiko-e22m-seriesa
Jul 17, 2025 - Paris-based fintech Spiko also received backing from White Star Capital, Bpifrance and Pennylane's founding team.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/balderton-avp-legal-battle
Jan 27, 2026 - James Isilay founder and former CEO has launched an “unfair prejudice” petition against Cognism and five of its investors.
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https://sifted.eu/articles/how-eu-funded-projects-can-help-ai-startups-brnd
Dec 21, 2023 - Could artificial intelligence (AI) stop tiny South American moth Tuta absoluta from ravaging the worlds’ crops?
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https://sifted.eu/articles/flo-health-settles-meta-privacy-case
Aug 1, 2025 - The judge said a lack of evidence from the plaintiffs posed an 'insurmountable' problem in the case against Flo Health.
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