Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

This week we discuss:01:58 Will Rishi Sunak, the UK’s new prime minister, be good for startups?05:56 Damning stats reveal gender pay gap at European startups09:18 Daye raises £10 for vaginal microbiome testing12:20 H2 Green Steel secures €3.5bn in debt to build hydrogen steel plant14:47 Alt meat startup Heura raises €20m16:52 Paebbl raises €8m to turn captured carbon into cement18:42 Can private jets really be good for the environment?19:50 A lack of lab space is threatening UK biotech

This week, we're treating you to something a little bit different. Eleanor's joined by EQT Growth partner Carolina Brochado, who recently launched a new €2.4bn fund to back later-stage European startups. That's not her only heavyweight credential: before joining EQT, Carolina was a partner at both the SoftBank Vision Fund and Atomico.They talk about how she’s works with her portfolio companies, how far European tech has come and how she tried (and failed), somewhat creatively, to win a spot on Deliveroo’s cap table back in the day.

This week we discuss:02:01 Who would lose most in a Gorillas sale?04:41 N26 reports widening losses06:57 Amazon aggregators get sued09:55 AI investment is down13:02 Tech to make us age slower19:30 Spain gets its 10th unicorn

This week we discuss:03:19 Metaverse platform Improbable has raised $100m10:15 Faux foie gras startup Gourmey raises €48m13:15 New Paris-based VC fund Sista Fund launches26:55 How can all startups help the green transition?The carbon-light website agency mentioned by Tessa Clarke: Wholegrain

This week we discuss:02:34 Italy gets its second unicorn in Satispay04:56 Sequoia gets its fifth partner in Europe 06:40 Phagos raised €2.4m to fight antibiotic resistance08:43 Wayve announces big breakthrough for self-driving cars

This week we discuss:03:04 More layoffs at Klarna03:54 Insect cultivation startup Innovafarm raises $260m05:35 Equity management platform Ledgy raises $22m07:00 B2B payments startup Sequence gets backing from Andreessen Horowitz09:16 Glovo founder launches new VC fund as his company is fined €79m11:58 Founder of collapsed energy company Bulb joins investment firm14:10 Nato launches €1bn VC fund as "defence tech" heats up21:03 Do we really need pets in the metaverse?

This week we discuss:01:00 Secondhand car marketplace Cazoo to lay off 1,500 people in 202203:15 Presentation software startup Pitch laying off 30% of team05:55 Vertical farming startup Infarm cuts 50 jobs07:35 Northzone raises €1bn fund 10:00 EQT raises €2.4bn growth fund12:24 SunRoof raised €15m to build solar roofs20:17 Inside Europe’s largest cannabis manufacturing facility

This week we discuss:1:49 Sorare lands huge NBA deal6:00  Code First Girls raises £4.5m to make coding more diverse9:40 Lightyear raises €81m to get its solar-powered car on the road11:57 Former Revolut big cheese Alan Chang’s Tesseract raises $78m for climate startup16:00 Have we finally cracked lithium ion battery recycling"?18:07 Why did Snap shut down French social app Zenly?Want to talk to Freya Pratty about climate tech? Email her at freya@sifted.eu

This week we discuss:02:00 Klarna losses triple in first half of 202204:14 Topi raises $45m to rent hardware and cut down on e-waste07:30 Neurofenix raises $7m to help stroke patients recover09:57 The mystery VC fund that never deliveredPlease take our listener survey! You get a month's Sifted membership for free, and we'd love to learn more about our listeners:bit.ly/siftedpodcast

This week we discuss:2:26: Poland’s Inovo raising €100m third fund for CEE startups5:49 Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett’s Web3 startup bags $24m8:35 The startup that could slash the cost of EV batteries10:23 Is Babylon Health going to get kicked off the NYSE?15:30 The world’s most advanced consumer-ready AI assistant?Please take our listener survey! You get a month's Sifted membership for free, and we'd love to learn more about our listeners:bit.ly/siftedpodcast