Anne Sraders
Senior Reporter, Financial Times at Sifted
Senior reporter at the Financial Times-backed @Siftedeu. Covering European VC & deeptech startups from Berlin. Tips: [email protected] Prev: @FortuneMagazine
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
Munich-based defence startup Helsing has raised €600m in Series D funding led by Spotify cofounder Daniel Ek’s investment firm Prima Materia. The new raise values the startup at €12bn, reported by the Financial Times and confirmed by Sifted, making it among Europe’s most valuable startups and more than doubling its previous valuation.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
The managing director of NATO’s tech accelerator Diana, Deeph Chana, has left the organisation after two years. The announcement was quietly posted on Diana’s news page in early June. Chana helped set up the programme in 2023. He will continue working on topics like resilience and entrepreneurship within the business school of Imperial College London, where he has been a professor alongside his work at Diana.
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3 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
This article first appeared in Sifted’s Up Round newsletter, sign up here. The lobby of the Hotel Palace in Berlin was buzzing with GPs and other investor-types taking meetings at SuperVenture this week — the holy grail of VC conferences. Amid the broader gloom around fundraising, there was a sense of uneasy optimism: VCs were trying to buck each other up about how much European VC has grown over the years, visualised in US fund-of-funds Adams Street’s annual presentation on the subject.
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3 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Amy Lewin |Anne Sraders
You’ve all heard of the PayPal ‘mafia’, and here in Europe, the Skype ‘mafia’. Other tech companies that have given birth to a generation of other tech startups include Revolut, Palantir, Monzo and Deliveroo. But what’s less talked about is that VCs are at it too. By Sifted’s count, former Seedcampers have started seven other VC firms. Earlybird, Accel and Atomico also have numerous offspring.
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3 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Anne Sraders
German autonomous drones unicorn Quantum Systems has launched a new unmanned systems operating system which will enable users to integrate and control flocks of third-party drones, dubbed Mosaic. The move into software comes as rivals like fellow German unicorn Helsing move the opposite direction: from only building software to producing strike drones late last year.
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RT @AnneSraders: New: the head of NATO's tech accelerator Diana has left after two years. The move comes amid a lot of turnover at NATO's o…
New: the head of NATO's tech accelerator Diana has left after two years. The move comes amid a lot of turnover at NATO's other investment arm, the €1bn NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), which has lost three of its original five partners in the last year. More: https://t.co/S3U453Dges
RT @AnneSraders: Scoop: the €1bn NATO Innovation Fund has lost its third partner in roughly a year. Partner Chris O'Connor has departed t…