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Martin Coulter

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European technology correspondent @Reuters | Mentor @GetNewsWise @studentvieworg | ✉️ [email protected] | He/him

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  • Meet European tech's most influential lobbyists

    1 week ago | sifted.eu | Freya Pratty |Tom Matsuda |Martin Coulter

    Big businesses tend to have well-oiled lobbying machines, accustomed to swaying policymakers in their favour. Startups — comparatively time-poor and with smaller teams — have typically presented less slick operationsBut things are ramping up, and individuals with key government experience are choosing to take a punt and join a startup.

  • Wayve plays advantage as tariffs threaten self-driving vehicles market

    1 week ago | sifted.eu | Miriam Partington |Martin Coulter

    Weeks after unveiling a new testing hub in Germany, autonomous vehicle startup Wayve has pressed ahead with its international expansion, largely insulated from punishing US tariffs that threaten to turn the wider industry on its head.

  • Exclusive: General Catalyst leads £4.4m seed round into AI agents startup Portia AI

    1 week ago | sifted.eu | Martin Coulter

    General Catalyst has backed London-based AI agents startup Portia AI in a £4.4 million seed funding round. Hype around AI “agents” — apps using large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks without a human in the loop — has gathered momentum over the past two years. European startups building such tools raised almost half a billion euros in the first six weeks of 2025 alone, according to Sifted data.

  • Topgolf founders rack up $34m for high-tech pool startup Poolhouse

    1 week ago | sifted.eu | Martin Coulter

    The twin brothers behind tech-enabled social sports chains like Puttshack and Topgolf have scored $34m in funding for their new venture, Poolhouse. British founders Steve and Dave Jolliffe sold their high-tech driving range business Topgolf to American sports equipment giant Callaway for $2bn in 2020, and found further success with Puttshack, an indoor mini-golf chain which counts BlackRock and Promethean Investments among its backers.

  • Europe’s iPhone challengers spy opportunity in tariffs fallout

    1 week ago | sifted.eu | Martin Coulter

    European smartphone companies are hoping to snatch a slice of Apple’s market share in the region, as Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to disrupt the iPhone-maker’s supply chain. Earlier this week, the US president’s unprecedented package of “reciprocal” import taxes sent stock markets around the world into a tailspin. After days of speculation, Trump rolled back most trading partners’ tariffs to 10% — but raised China’s to 125%.

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Martin Coulter @MartinJBCoulter
12 Mar 25

RT @AnneSraders: Founders from 100+ European startups including Mistral, Github and Klarna have joined "Project Europe", an initiative to f…

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3 Mar 25

RT @FPratty: NEW: Since 2021, London-based VC firm Future Planet Capital has secured more than £100m in public funds without any competitiv…

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Martin Coulter @MartinJBCoulter
10 Feb 25

Scoop: Mistral AI is pursuing defence contracts with governments across Europe, pitching its tech's potential military applications, sources say. After securing links with its native French defence ministry, Mistral is targeting the UK and Germany. https://t.co/7SsjCzS5Yp