This week we discuss:

01:20 Investors say new UK listing rules might not be enough to entice tech companies
05:24 German startup Prematch raises €2.4m to build 'Fifa for amateur football'
09:22 Mental health therapeutics startup HelloBetter raises €7m for further US expansion
14:17 Can France save the metaverse?

This week we discuss:

01:27 Northvolt to confirm US expansion plans within weeks, cofounder says
04:07 Leaked deck raises questions over Stability AI's Series A pitch to investors
08:16 The call for a CERN-like AI supercomputer
11:16 This startup has raised $31m to turn wood into glass
14:10 IV infusions and blood purification: Inside one of Europe’s first longevity clinics
20:30  Meet the startup sending scientists around the world to build a database of all life

Listen to Sifted's new podcast series sponsored by EQT Ventures: "Downturn Survival Guide"

This week we discuss:

Shareholder upheaval and a $630m debt burden: end of the road for Cazoo?
How a corruption scandal has left dozens of Polish startups facing bankruptcy
The Family Files: Inside France’s ugliest startup fight
Toxic bosses and unhealthy cultures: Why Europe’s VCs are tired and burnt out

This week we discuss:

01:18 Checkout.com faces exec team exodus and makes layoffs ‘by stealth’
05:30 ‘Mini-revolt’ as TravelPerk U-turns on remote work
08:26 Founders had to wait ‘far too long’ for EIC Fund cash, admits chair
11:09 YC alum SolarMente raises for subscription solar panel service
17:57 Coworking retreats and hiking holidays: Inside the biggest startup community you’ve never heard of

This week it’s another long form interview and we’re joined in the studio with Johannes Schildt from Stockholm-based digital healthcare provider Kry.

After a tough 2022, the founder reflects on dealing with layoffs at the company, pausing operations in Germany and the challenges of working with disjointed healthcare systems. He also looks ahead to how exciting technologies like large language models (which power the likes of GPT-4) could supercharge healthcare in the future, and tells us what he’s like as a boss. 

This week we discuss:

03:54: Starting to take off: German rocket maker Isar Aerospace raises $165m
06:43: Europe’s spacetech report
06:59: Climate tech Agreena raises €46m Series B to fight climate change with carbon sinks
09:52 Channel 4-backed fintech shuts down, searches for buyer
12:39: ‘We are super, super fucked’: Meet the man trying to stop an AI apocalypse
19:11: Gloria Bäuerlein closes one of Europe’s first female solo GP funds

This week it's a longer form interview with Matt Clifford, founder of early stage investor and startup builder Entrepreneur First. He's also recently been appointed as an AI advisor to the UK government, so we brought him into the Sifted studio to ask him how the UK and Europe can have an AI strategy that moves the needle, as companies like Microsoft and Google increasingly dominate the space.

This week we're doing a special episode looking at the Silicon Valley Bank crash, why it happened, why the tech sector was so exposed and how the government stepped in to help save the UK subsidiary of the business.

We’re joined by special guests Dom Hallas, from UK tech lobby group Coadec, and Benedikt von Thüngen, cofounder of diagnostics startup Sanome which had 85% of its cash in SVB.

We also analyse what the UK budget means for startups, including big spending on quantum research and more support for AI innovation, plus cut to R&D tax credits.

The articles we discuss this week:
- UK Spring budget: R&D cuts but huge quantum spend
- SVB UK: the latest on the startup bank’s collapse — and sale to HSBC
- SVB UK still funding loans after HSBC buyout, say sources
- SVB: Why did so many UK startups only have one bank account?
- ‘It was terrifying’: 48 nightmare hours for European tech founders as SVB collapsed
- VCs are ‘absolutely to blame’ for SVB chaos, says Seedcamp’s Reshma Sohoni
- Opinion: UK government should not bailout SVB UK

This week we’ve got a special episode focusing on Swedish tech. Sifted has been visiting the Nordic Nation for our Stockholm Sessions event, where we caught up with founders working in everything from electric-powered boats to a plan to build a metaverse-powered aquarium at the bottom of a real-life fjord.

We were also joined by Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who gave an interview on what the media gets wrong about his company, and why it’s sometimes ok to lose $100m a month.

This week we discuss:

02:18 Revolut reports its first-ever year of profit
05:29 Klarna posts $1bn annual loss, its largest ever
09:55 Want to drive using mind control?
13:14 GitLab and Remote backer Inkef loses its sole LP
17:16 Wise and Monzo founders back legal generative AI startup’s $10.5m Series A
23:16 I’m not a billionaire — will I ever go to space?