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Meet the 25 startups selected for UK’s Future Fifty growth programme | Sifted

4 days ago | sifted.eu | Jonathan Sinclair

ElevenLabs and Abound headline the latest cohort of fast-growing UK scaleups
Mistral models ‘60 times more likely to produce child exploitation material’ than competitors, study says

5 days ago | sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet |Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Some of the AI models built by buzzy French startup Mistral are significantly more likely to produce child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) and content linked to chemical and nuclear threats compared to its competitors, according to a new report. Mistral, which launched in Paris two years ago, builds generative AI models similar to those powering US tech giant OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Klarna CEO dials down AI ambitions with human hiring push

5 days ago | sifted.eu | Tom Matsuda

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is reportedly rolling back the Swedish fintech’s reliance on AI in a new recruiting drive. Founded in 2005, Klarna helped BNPL (buy now, pay later) checkout options go mainstream, and came close to going public on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year.
Exclusive: Adams Street raises €270m for debut European VC fund

5 days ago | sifted.eu | Anne Sraders

US investor Adams Street Partners, one of the world’s largest fund of funds, has raised more than €270m for its debut European venture fund. The fund will primarily invest in new VC funds, with up to 30% of the capital reserved for secondaries and co-investments into startups, Europe-focused partner Ross Morrison tells Sifted.
ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski: 'The pressure is increasing'

6 days ago | sifted.eu | Mimi Billing

AI voice startup ElevenLabs has had a hectic start to 2025. Since announcing its $180m Series C at a $3bn valuation in January, the company has launched its own speech-to-text model, opened an office in Japan, secured a deal with Spotify to offer audiobooks on its platform and seen a growing number of competitors entering the market.
Klarna IPO delayed until late 2025, reports say

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.
Mistral unveils new enterprise AI assistant to compete with Microsoft and OpenAI

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet

Buzzy French startup Mistral has released a new AI-powered assistant for businesses as it ramps up efforts to compete against Big Tech players like Microsoft and OpenAI. Dubbed ‘Le Chat Enterprise’, the new product tailors Mistral’s general-purpose conversational assistant Le Chat, released last year, to business needs. Mistral builds large-language models (LLMs), the same type of technology powering generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Big Interview: Meet the 18-year-old dropout building the AI agent to rule them all

1 week 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.
Europe wants to poach US tech talent - with lower wages and more paperwork

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet

As the Trump administration aggressively clamps down on research and academia in the US, Europe is aiming to turn a crisis into an opportunity by persuading top researchers to relocate across the Atlantic. Earlier this week, the EU Commission’s president Ursula Von der Leyen announced a fresh €500m funding package as part of a new initiative dubbed “Choose Europe for Science” intended to attract foreign researchers to the EU.
UK-India trade deal to disrupt Silicon Valley talent pipeline

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Freya Pratty |Kai Nicol-Schwarz

After the UK and India signed a long-awaited trade deal, industry leaders in both countries say the pact will revolutionise how talent and capital flows between them. While the deal puts significant focus on cuts to levies on consumer goods such as whiskey and clothing — offering the UK economy a potential £4.8bn boost — members of the startup ecosystem have hailed the potential it could bring to tech, too.