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John Thornhill

John Thornhill

Founder / Editorial director at Sifted

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44
Location
United Kingdom
Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computers & Technology
  • Technology

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Recent Articles

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Make Britain rich again

Matt Clifford recently became a viral sensation after delivering a punchy, and very un-British, message: “We have to make the UK rich again.”
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Can AI spark a second industrial revolution in Europe?

AI is enabling us to make more discoveries than ever before. The question is whether we can possibly learn and profit from all of them
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Europe must create more demand for tech

It is no surprise that so many European startups look for better customers in the US or Asia, writes John Thornhill.
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Welcome to the era of greenhushing: the perfect time to invest?

ESG investments could prove to be a canny contrarian play for steely-nerved investors
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The lessons of Klarna’s IPO

Building a successful startup is tough. But Europe's investors are still missing out on the benefits of those that succeed.
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Big Tech is eating the AI industry’s seedcorn

Reverse acquihires often leave a small startup’s investors — and junior employers — in the lurch, writes editorial director John Thornhill.
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Small may well be beautiful in the AI race

Europe may need to rethink how it can compete after OpenAI released its latest models, writes John Thornhill.
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European investors find purpose in purposeful tech

European tech startups are quietly winning in high-impact sectors like defence and biotech, writes John Thornhill.
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Stand aside unicorns. Here come the donkeycorns

Some VCs are targeting thousands of smaller AI-led startups, rather than placing big bets on elusive unicorns, writes John Thornhill.
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The unlikely lessons of sword fighting for AI regulation

Agreeing on AI regulation is rapidly emerging as one of the world’s biggest, and hardest, policy challenges.
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UK startups have lost faith in Labour. What next?

Raging against Labour policy may be rather like complaining about the weather: fun but futile, writes John Thornhill.
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Europe’s 'dumb luck' opportunity in agentic AI

There’s a mad scramble underway in European tech among AI agent startups backed by trigger-happy investors.
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Forget human intuition. Algorithmic investing is all about the data

With relatively little data available on private markets, John Thornhill writes, can AI be relied on to guide VCs' investments?
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How come the media is so rich, and poor?

Here's a paradox: everyone says the media industry is in crisis, but it’s easier to read great journalism than ever before.
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Ukrainian startups are bouncing back

Funding’s up, and there’s renewed interest from foreign frontier investors, as John Thornhill explores in his latest Sifted View column.
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Faster, leaner, fitter: Europe’s new generation of startups

The Sifted 100 shows how AI is beginning to shuffle the competitive cards for startups in the UK and Ireland.
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Should UK tech look east or west?

Some believe Britain must choose between becoming more American or European when it comes to tech, writes John Thornhill.
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What Europe needs to win the nuclear fusion race

There is little doubt that fortunes will one day be made by those with deep enough pockets and sufficient vision — and patience.
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What Europe’s startups can learn from DeepMind

A new film colourfully recounts DeepMind's early hit-and-miss attempts to use AI to play games like Pong and Starcraft.
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The radical uncertainty of being a founder (or war correspondent)

Both are exercises in dealing with radical uncertainty and unknown risks, writes Sifted cofounder John Thornhill.
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Europe is rearming. But does defence tech make investment sense?

Europe needs to draw defence lessons from Ukraine as it rearms in the face of a resurgent Russia and an increasingly nationalistic US.