Amy Lewin
Editor at Sifted
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Amy Lewin
In a sign of the times, the European Investment Fund (EIF), has backed its first defence tech fund. Defence, once off-limits to the majority of European investors and LPs, is rapidly becoming one of the hottest areas of investment in the continent as geopolitical tensions push the industry to the front of policymakers, founders and VCs’ minds.
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3 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Amy Lewin
The UK’s ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency) has always been big on ambition and — at its inaugural summit in London this week — went even bigger on inspiration.
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1 month ago |
sifted.eu | Amy Lewin
The AI-generated summary of my interview with 18-year-old startup founder Arlan Rakhmetzhanov reads like a synopsis for one of the “bildungsroman” novels I studied at university. “The conversation revolves around a young entrepreneur’s journey and experiences,” transcription app Otter tells me, bringing to mind a genre of coming-of-age stories encompassing everything from David Copperfield to Dune.
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1 month ago |
sifted.eu | Amy Lewin
VC firms across Europe are stuffed full of mid-level investors wondering whether they’ll ever ‘make’ it to partner. There will never be as many spots at the top as there are underneath — and so many investors who are denied partnerdom choose to either leave the industry, or start their own firm. But that wasn’t the route taken by Dinika Mahtani, who heads up early-stage investor Cherry Ventures’ London office.
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1 month ago |
sifted.eu | Amy Lewin
In early April, serial entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow took the mic at a meeting of the UK government’s Women and Equalities Committee to talk about why “the UK is currently a pretty terrible place to be a female entrepreneur” — and why a government on a mission to drive growth should care about that.
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