Mimi Billing
Europe Editor at Sifted
Europe editor at @siftedeu backed by @FT. Reach me on LinkedIn or [email protected]
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Mimi Billing
Last week German fusion startup Proxima Fusion hit the headlines when it announced it had raised a €130m Series A round — the largest funding round for a European fusion startup. The round was, perhaps surprisingly to those of us who’ve been reporting on fusion startups, led by Cherry Ventures and Balderton, mainstream VCs usually focused on winning the venture game with software. When did fusion technology ever become a VC case? Apparently, now it seems. And there’s public money behind it.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Mimi Billing
The Swedish electric ferry startup Candela has sold 11 of its flying electric passenger ferries to Jalvimana, a local transport operator in Mumbai — the largest announced deal in the company’s history. The Indian city of Mumbai is one of the most congested cities in the world, with over 23m residents.
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2 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Mimi Billing
“This is a spiritual movement. ‘Don’t die’ is a new ideological framework,” Bryan Johnson exclaimed from the stage at the Super Human Summit in Stockholm last weekend. The 47-year-old is not just a household name for people into longevity, he's also kind of a messiah. “It’s not really about health. What I’ve been trying to do is to give birth to a new movement, and we are now in the age of ‘Don’t die’,” he told the audience. “That is why I’m so weird.
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3 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Mimi Billing
In the last few months, Stockholm has become one of the buzziest AI hubs in Europe. But that’s not all Stockholm entrepreneurs care about. Lately, some of them are increasingly focused on their health — and lifespan. That’s also the focus of the Global Human Improvement Summit in Stockholm this Saturday, hosted by longevity guru Bryan Johnson. For anyone who’s missed who Johnson is: he’s the 40-something fintech entrepreneur who’s spent millions trying to reverse or halt his own ageing process.
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3 weeks ago |
sifted.eu | Mimi Billing |Freya Pratty
A subdivision of the EU’s European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has suspended payments to business partners, following an investigation into its management of funds. Since launching in 2019, EIT Manufacturing (EITM) has been tasked with enhancing European competitiveness by innovating and upscaling manufacturing capacity in the region, supporting dozens of homegrown businesses through investment and various development schemes.
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