Éanna Kelly

Launching today, the Sifted 30: Eastern Europe and the Baltics is the fifth in a series of regional rankings.

Skype set in motion a tech flywheel that has continued spinning across the eastern European and Baltics region.

Probably not coming to a theatre near you...

It’s been a year of alarmingly sane startup pictures — with some great exceptions

The number of people buying European spacetech merchandise is a sign of an industry that takes itself less seriously than it once did.

It’s the third annual Sifted B2B SaaS Rising 100, which ranks Europe’s most promising business-focused software companies valued under $1bn.

Vincent Farret d’Astiès bets on French panache to lift his luxury tourist balloon above rival space technology companies.

Dogpatch Labs CEO Patrick Walsh gives his read on the Irish tech scene and argues for more policy levers to pull talent out of Big Tech jobs.

From startups helping satellites dodge space junk to those building suborbital gas stations, here are 15 spacetechs worth watching.

Three startups joined the $1bn+ club in Ireland last year — who’s next?

Sifted profiles some of the most interesting seed deals of October 2023, including a flying vehicle from Sweden and a fintech bounce back.

The startups putting eyes and rockets in the sky — and creating jobs on the ground.

The latest in an occasional series where Sifted thinks too much about photos.

I rated the different droids out there — and awarded extra points to any that couldn’t beat me up

Figure out if these quotes belong to Spotify cofounder and CEO Daniel Ek or Succession’s Lukas Matsson

I went looking for a plucky aeronaut who can give me the Ryanair treatment on a trip to space (or at least very near it)

The Exploration Company rides high with European spacetech’s biggest ever Series A as it seeks to build its own answer to reusable rockets

A ranking reveals there are still many companies willing to give workplace flexitarians the freedom they want

Digital assets nosedived this year but creators are looking on the bright side. “I’m fucking really excited about the bear market,” says one.

Agriculture contributes one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, but several up-and-coming agritech startups are looking to change that.