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Bill Gates’s policy team leaves Europe: what does it mean for climate tech?

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Freya Pratty

Over the last four years, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy has become one of key lobbying forces in European tech, steering climate tech policy in startups’ favour and forging close ties with policymakers to do so. It helped lay the groundwork for the introduction of the EU’s Clean Industrial Act, which is significant because it foregrounds tech as a climate solution, and helped keep climate technologies on policymakers’ minds as their focus switched increasingly to defence and resilience.
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.
Figma warns Lovable to stop using the term ‘Dev Mode’ in trademark row

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Mimi Billing

Lovable has received a cease-and-desist letter from Figma, warning the Swedish AI startup to stop using the phrase “Dev Mode” in its products, claiming it infringes on their intellectual property. Figma, a California-based web design platform valued at around $10bn with backers such as Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures, called out Lovable over its use of the term “Dev Mode” on its platform.
No guts, no glory: The microbiome startups working with pets

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Adam Green

This article first appeared in our monthly Unleashed pet tech newsletter, a collaboration with Purina Accelerator Lab. All content is editorially independent. Sign up to our newsletter here to keep up to date with the latest goings on in the European pet tech industry.
EIF head Marjut Falkstedt: “We will not finance weapons and ammunition”

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Amy Lewin

When Marjut Falkstedt took up her role as head of the European Investment Fund (EIF) two years ago, the conversations VCs — and politicians — were having, in public at least, were very different. Defence spending wasn’t regularly headline news, or part of VC social media chitter chatter. Today, it very much is. That means the EIF — the biggest backer of Europe’s VCs, investing €7bn in equity financing last year, with €143.7bn in assets under management — has shifted its priorities.
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.
Bunq hits profitability for second year running, presses ahead with US expansion

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Tom Matsuda

Bunq has achieved profitability for the second year, bolstering plans for an international expansion as it moves to secure a broker-dealer license in the US. Founded in 2012 by CEO Ali Niknam, Dutch neobank Bunq has 17m users across Europe with more than €8bn in deposits. The company posted €85.3m in profits for 2024, according to financial results released Tuesday — a 65% jump from the €51.6 million reported by the bank in 2023.
Hugging Face acquires French humanoid robot startup Pollen Robotics

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

Hugging Face, the French-American company that provides open-source tools to develop AI applications, has acquired French robotics startup Pollen Robotics for an undisclosed sum. The move marks a first step into hardware for Hugging Face, which is now selling Pollen Robotics’ Reachy 2, a humanoid robot powered by open-source code.
Car insurtech Marshmallow secures $90m in bid to become the ‘one-stop financial shop for migrants’

1 week ago | sifted.eu | Tom Matsuda

Marshmallow has raised a $90m funding round as the car insurance fintech revs up international expansion plans and accelerates plans to become a “one-stop financial shop for migrants.” Founded in 2017 by twin brothers Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham and David Goaté, Marshmallow is a car insurance fintech focusing on immigrants to the UK. This demographic often faces difficulties obtaining insurance at rates comparable to those born in the country.