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second season of WeCrashed is gonna be a spicy one🌶️👀📺

🚨some news: thrilled to have been selected as a John Schofield Trust Fellow (John Schofield Trust) for 2024. The trust provides mentoring for early-career journalists.

Some news: today is my first day reporting on fintech at Sifted! I started off my journalism career as an intern at Sifted so I’m very excited to be back. Have a tip, a story or just want to chat about anything fintech? I’m at [email protected] —  please get in touch!

Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton (Tom Matsuda / Sifted) sifted.eu/articles/luko-… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240424/p1#a240…

NEW: Silicon Valley VC giant a16z's London charm offensive is well underway, following its first overseas demo day for its crypto startup accelerator in the UK capital. Here are my main takeaways from the demo day last Tuesday: sifted.eu/articles/a16z-…

this honestly feels like we’re living in a simulation

The decision on Revolut's banking licence has been one of the industry's most hotly anticipated stories. And yesterday the fintech finally secured a UK banking licence — but what's next for Revolut? Find out below 👇👇👇 sifted.eu/articles/revol…

Scoop: Franco-German VC firm XAnge has quietly stopped fundraising for its inaugural crypto VC fund, which targeted €80m. The crypto fund struggled to gain enough backers to hit a first close, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. sifted.eu/articles/xange…

NEW: I wrote about why France has yet to produce a homegrown consumer neobank. While Germany has N26 and the UK has Monzo, Starling and Revolut, France has yet to produce an equivalent. But that could be set to change — find out more below 👇👇👇 sifted.eu/articles/franc…

NEW: UK fintech Revolut has upped its valuation to $45bn in an employee share sale weeks after securing a UK banking licence sifted.eu/articles/revol…

NEW: World, a crypto biometrics project cofounded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and backed by big-name VCs such as a16z and Tiger Global, is at loggerheads with European data protection regulators. Get into the full story w/Zosia Wanat (is on maternity leave) below:👇👇👇 sifted.eu/articles/world…

NEW: Former Monzo employees are petitioning the digital bank's board to participate in the company's upcoming secondary share sale. Full story below 👇👇👇 sifted.eu/articles/monzo…

never thought I’d see Stormy Daniels and Boris Johnson sitting on the same panel #c4americadecides

New from Tom Matsuda : Revolut is moving into private banking, with a plan to build personalised financial services for the rich 👀 sifted.eu/articles/revol…

EXCLUSIVE: The UK government spent five years lobbying Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the world’s biggest VC firms, to choose London as its first overseas base — only for the firm to close its office within 18 months of its announcement. sifted.eu/articles/andre…

Trump’s new administration will likely have a huge implications for European startups and their relationships with the US. Here are the key power players in Trump's cabinet that European tech should know. W/ Tom Matsuda sifted.eu/articles/trump…

Scoop: German AI translation unicorn DeepL is “looking very closely” at an IPO, which could come in 2026, sources tell us. More with Tom Matsuda Freya Pratty sifted.eu/articles/deepl…