With the year drawing to a close, many companies are in the process of putting together their hiring strategy for 2021. Over the past 12 months, priorities have changed dramatically; every industry is facing its own individual recruiting challenges, whether that’s hiring freezes, inefficient ways of processing high volumes of applications or an increase in vacancies. What […]

In the 90s, it was the expansion of the internet, in the 2000s, the rise of mobile computing and in the 2010s, the emergence of cloud computing. But for the 2020s, it’s “deeptech” that’s set to drive technological change across the next decade and, according to a new report from the European Startups Project, Europe is investing […]

The European Commission today announced that one shareholder in various start-ups is. There are exactly 42, described by the Commission as “highly innovative”. The companies will receive 178 million euros from the European Innovation Council (EIC) fund to develop innovations in the areas of health, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and other areas and implement them on a larger scale. […]

This time last year, Sifted compiled at least some pretty accurate predictions for 2020. Our columnist Nicolas Colin said it was going to be the year of remote working, which he was definitely right about (albeit it not exactly for the reasons he said). Philippe Collombel, general partner at Partech, said it was going to be […]

It’s now safe to say that Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. Even if Donald Trump makes the transition difficult or wants to keep thinking of himself as the real president after January 20th, it’s Biden who will be in the Oval Office along with his new administration, designing and […]

You’d imagine that when a founder hears that SoftBank has just backed one of their competitors, they might not feel super chirpy. You’d also think that their VCs wouldn’t be entirely chuffed, either. Yet the news that SoftBank has led a $250m investment round into scooter operator Tier has been met with interminable optimism. “We welcome Tier’s […]

Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin discusses the company’s battles with Apple, the technical challenges of delivering cloud games, Microsoft’s deal to distribute its own xCloud games, and the importance of the new Player Name policy. Facebook on Monday revealed a broad new cloud gaming strategy aimed at upending the lucrative and fast-growing mobile games ecosystem. While […]

How startups are scaling communication The pandemic is making startups take a close look at ramping up their communication solutions. Learn how Microsoft Teams is continuing to ride the remote work and learning wave propelled by the coronavirus pandemic. During Microsoft’s Q1 2021 earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella shared that Microsoft Teams has passed 115 million daily […]

“France is one of the most attractive places in the world right now.” You’d expect Cedric O, the French junior minister for digital affairs, to cheer for France. After all, the man has a two-metre neon sculpture of a red rooster — the emblem of the French tech ecosystem — sitting just outside his office door, […]

The European venture ecosystem is robust and growing with strengths in fintech, health care, deep tech, data and analytics, and commerce and shopping. In the last 10 years, European venture has experienced growth year over year at between 16 percent and 55 percent–bar one year (2016) that was down 13 percent. (2014 and 2015 each […]