Martin Coulter
News Editor at Sifted
News editor @Siftedeu | Mentor @GetNewsWise @studentvieworg | ✉️ [email protected] | He/him
Articles
-
6 days ago |
sifted.eu | Martin Coulter
Swedish fintech Klarna has further delayed its long-awaited IPO to late 2025, according to reports. Last month, the BNPL (buy now, pay later) giant put plans for a public float on the New York Stock Exchange on hold, with reports putting the decision down to the market volatility unleashed when US president Donald Trump imposed a punishing set of tariffs on trading partners around the world.
-
6 days ago |
email.sifted.eu | Martin Coulter
How are European startups’ DEI initiatives holding up? We surveyed women in tech to find out. As the economic outlook becomes increasingly uncertain, tech folk in Europe have voiced growing concerned their companies could roll back DEI initiatives as part of wider cost-cutting drives. As part of Sifted’s latest survey, we tried to find out how committed businesses remained to championing diversity.
-
1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Martin Coulter
StackOne, an AI startup based in London, has raised a $20m Series A funding round led by GV. Almost halfway through 2025, investor enthusiasm for AI agents — applications which use large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks without a human in the loop — shows little sign of abating. In the first six weeks of 2025 alone, European startups building AI agents picked up €481m — more than a quarter of the funds raised by such startups in the entire year previous, according to Sifted data.
-
1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Martin Coulter
StackOne, an AI agents startup based in London, has raised a $20m Series A funding round led by Google Ventures (GV). Almost halfway through 2025, investor enthusiasm for AI agents — applications which use large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks without a human in the loop — shows little sign of abating.
-
1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Martin Coulter
The UK is readying a new scheme designed to attract top international research talent, just as US president Donald Trump cracks down on academic freedom in his own country. Backed by around £50m in public funding, the initiative will provide research grants and help scientists relocate to Britain, people familiar with the plans tell the Financial Times.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 6K
- Tweets
- 3K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @AnneSraders: Founders from 100+ European startups including Mistral, Github and Klarna have joined "Project Europe", an initiative to f…
RT @FPratty: NEW: Since 2021, London-based VC firm Future Planet Capital has secured more than £100m in public funds without any competitiv…
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