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Each week, Sifted editor Amy Lewin and deputy editor Eleanor Warnock convey their dulcet tones to your airwaves with the newest from Startup Europe and the Sifted newsroom.
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Right here’s what you’ve missed from the final six episodes:
Episode 5 | Claims of toxicity at Glovo: How ‘good vibes’ became a ‘nightmare’
We do love Eleanor — however this week we had been honoured with a really particular visitor in her absence: journalist-turned-VP of technique at grocery supply startup Zapp, Steve O’Hear, who made his identify at TechCrunch the place he was a tech journalist for greater than 10 years.
We focus on The Household, France’s most well-known — now notorious? — incubator whose cofounder Oussama Ammar was accused of embezzling €3m.
Our Iberian correspondent (and podcast producer) Tim Smith talks about his reporting on poisonous office allegations at Spanish meals supply celebrity Glovo. The allegations embody ruthless administration kinds, frantic and poor decision-making and low worker morale and psychological well being.
Lastly, we focus on the connection between journalists and tech corporations — and the explosive tweet that began the dialog.
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Episode 6 | The metaverse sector really making a living
In episode six, we converse to reporter Freya Pratty about all issues CO2 — from carbon seize to accounting — and ask: is it actually doable to scrub up our air with machines?
Maija Palmer additionally talks a couple of darkish horse metaverse utility that’s bought VCs flinging open their wallets, and we focus on one of the crucial necessary points going through right now’s tech business: are you able to develop a scrumptious breakfast in a lab?
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Episode 7 | The NFT bros shedding hundreds on ape scams
“I’d say most likely 70% of NFT persons are out to rip-off,” says Franck Bossi, a French YouTuber who has been operating a channel known as NFT WatchDog for greater than a 12 months.
However how do the scams work?
In episode seven we chat with author Éanna Kelly about the wacky world of NFT scams.
We additionally dial in Germany correspondent Miriam Partington, who talks about diversifying the funding panorama and the sizzling new German tech startups everybody needs to work for.
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Episode 8 | VC horror tales
In Episode eight now we have a visitor host — Sifted author Éanna Kelly — who retains the podcast host’s chair heat in Amy’s absence.
We dive into the juicy funding information of the week, together with new funds for college spinouts and Spanish deeptech.
We additionally speak to Sifted cofounder John Thornhill about what it’s wish to be an older entrepreneur after he printed his classes from founding Sifted within the Monetary Instances.
Lastly, we chat with our journalist Kai Nicol-Schwarz about secondhand vogue marketplaces and VC horror tales. The latter is to not be missed, with every thing from discrimination and assembly no-shows to vanity and ghosting.
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Episode 9 | The fintech concentrating on… seafarers?
For episode 9, Amy calls in from Riga to inform us concerning the Latvian startups she’s met at TechChill — seems wind-turbine-fixing robots are huge enterprise. We additionally focus on the newest startup information, together with the ‘world’s largest’ facility opening for cow-free milk and on-demand tailoring app Sojo’s increase.
Fintech reporter Amy O’Brien then joins us to speak concerning the newest wave of fintechs concentrating on underserved communities, together with migrants, worldwide employees and… seafarers.
Lastly, Amy (Lewin — not O’Brien) interviews Nord Safety cofounder and co-CEO Tom Okman about its latest mammoth $100m increase.
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Episode 10 | Sensible, Bolt and Skype: How Estonia churns out unicorns
For episode 10 we’re reside at our first ever Sifted Classes occasion in Tallinn, Estonia!
We get the lowdown on how a tiny nation within the Baltics has created world corporations like Skype and Sensible. Amy is joined on stage by Sifted reporter Anisah Osman Britton, president of the Estonian Founders Society Kaidi Ruusalepp and founding father of sustainable funding platform Grünfin Triin Hertmann.
And keep tuned for potential future reside episodes of The Sifted Podcast, as we take our in-person Classes occasions throughout Europe this 12 months.
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In case you missed our roundup of episodes one to 4, you’ll be able to catchup right here. And for those who favored this and wish extra, subscribe now to The Sifted Podcast on Spotify, Apple and Google.
