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Sensmet secures €1.5M to scale real-time metals monitoring for Europe’s raw materials supply Finnish developer of continuous metals monitoring technology, Sensmet, has received a €1.5m investment from EIT RawMaterials to help secure the supply of critical and strategically important raw materials. Sensmet’s breakthrough technology, Micro-Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy (µDOES), enables

Monzo to exit US market Monzo is closing its US banking operations after struggling to gain traction in the market, and will instead focus on its core UK and European business. The UK digital bank, famed for its bright coral cards, will stop onboarding new customers and lay off about 50 employees

Matt Clifford steps back from Entrepreneurs First after 15 years Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/matt-clifford-entrepreneurs-first-steps-back

UK pension providers back £200m fund aimed at supercharging homegrown startups Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-pension-providers-200m-fund

EQT and Atomico go head-to-head to manage €5bn EU fund Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eqt-atomico-finalists-scaleup-europe-fund

Confessions of a tech ghostwriter: ‘I will help you scale cringe mountain’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/confessions-of-a-tech-ghostwriter-i-will-help-you-scale-cringe-mountain

Monzo shuts down US operations to focus on UK and Europe Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/monzo-us-exit-fintech

‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China Passengers in Baidu’s robotaxis were trapped for up to two hours. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/system-failure-paralyzes-baidu-robotaxis-in-china/

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/anthropic-took-down-thousands-of-github-repos-trying-to-yank-its-leaked-source-code-a-move-the-company-says-was-an-accident/

De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be the largest crypto theft in 2026 so far. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/de-fi-platform-drift-suspends-deposits-and-withdrawals-after-millions-in-crypto-stolen-in-hack/