Year: 2025

Swedish VC Incore Invest completes €15 million second closing, bringing Invest II to €40 million Stockholm-based investment firm, Incore Invest, has raised €15 million in a second closing of its Incore Invest II, bringing total committed capital to €40 million in order to support the growth of high-potential SaaS and

Grammarly has become Superhuman: How will this affect the Ukrainian team? Interview with Volodymyr Lysiuk, Ukraine Site Lead Grammarly, a company founded by Ukrainians, underwent a major rebranding and changed its name to Superhuman in October 2025. At the same time, the company announced a change in strategy with a

Nothing launches $5m crowdfunding round, draws up IPO plans Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nothing-phone-startup-crowdfund-ipo/

Can you be left-wing and an ‘elite founder’? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/left-wing-founders-vc-uk/

Leaked pitch deck reveals Lovable’s 65% margin target Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lovable-margins-leaked-pitch-deck/

‘I hate that there’s still a big difference’: Neura Robotics CEO on chasing decacorn status, pursuing M&A and the China ‘blueprint’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/neura-robotics-ceo-china-blueprint/

How do I attract top-tier AI talent as a first-time founder in stealth? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/attract-top-ai-talent-first-time-founder/

Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher on why every founder needs to be an influencer Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by combining venture capital with hands-on PR to help portfolio companies not just raise

Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/amazon-hopes-to-jump-start-its-ai-coding-tool-kiro-by-giving-it-away-to-startups/

Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal Bending Spoons is acquiring the global event management platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million.  Eventbrite would become the latest major global brand to join the Bending Spoons portfolio. Last month, the company announced a definitive agreement