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Thomas Ohr and the nine-year pause
He started EU-Startups after work, gave its readers a conference, and brought its podcast back after nine years. Thomas Ohr’s career follows the patient business of getting Europe’s founders into the same conversation.
Thomas Kösters’s case for a dozen people
From Microsoft Ventures to DEEP Ecosystems, Thomas Kösters has spent his career working on the conditions around a startup. His argument begins with a small group of people willing to build something where they live.
Europe deserves a hearing
Tech.eu Podcast began with interference and a questionable jingle. Its enduring idea was clearer: European technology needed a conversation of its own.
20VC turned the microphone into a cheque book.
Harry Stebbings built a podcast to get closer to venture capital. Then he built a venture firm whose calling card was already playing in founders’ headphones.
Europe’s startup story. With the follow-up questions.
Startup Europe puts founders and the reporters covering them within earshot. Behind the weekly podcast is Sifted’s larger bet: European tech deserves a conversation of its own.
Europe, one conversation at a time
EU-Startups tried podcasting, stopped, and came back nine years later. Its second act shows what happens when a media company gives its network a microphone.
IQ Capital bets on the parts the future is missing
Quantum computers need networks. Robots need power. Factories need better systems. IQ Capital backs the companies fixing those awkward details - and helps them find a market.
Initiator VC wants your startup before your graduation
A student-run venture platform is bringing mentors, first cheques and investor introductions to university founders. Its useful insight: the person building the next company may already be sitting beside you.
Mountside Ventures teaches the money people to ask for money
Founders need investors. Investors need investors of their own. Mountside Ventures has built a fundraising business around the awkward fact that both sides could use some help.
AlbionVC backs the awkward years between invention and income
A medical breakthrough still needs a business. An API platform still needs buyers. AlbionVC has built its venture practice around the expensive work of getting from one to the other.
Founderland Gives the Investor Pitch a Practice Room
The Berlin nonprofit helps women of colour founders prepare for capital, find investors and build useful networks. Its next bet: turn the lessons of a small accelerator into tools more founders can use.
VentureFriends puts a price on staying close
The European seed investor helped keep Blueground financed when outside money proved elusive. That history gives its promise of founder support a useful test: what happens when the next round does not arrive?
Freshmango wants your startup to grow. You keep the equity.
The Estonia-born accelerator sells founders a mix of AI tools, human mentorship and investor access. Its pitch is ownership; the practical test is whether four months of structure can build a business worth backing.