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Happy Friday! Here's the line up today: 
  • Spirituality in startups
  • Mobility startups to watch
  • Why VCs need radical transparency
  • Steve O'Hear quits journalism 

\Startup Life  

European startups are spiritually bankrupt


Ritual consultants are a growing trend in US workplaces. Organisations like Ritualist and the Sacred Design Lab promise to bring “ancient wisdom”, “spiritual innovation” and “ritual audits” into the office.

But are European workplaces following suit? And should they?

Tim Smith finds out more.

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\For Members Mobility 

13 mobility startups that will boom this year, according to VCs

The European mobility sector has had some wild moments this year. Mobility startups have been riding the SPAC wave and there have been some huge funding rounds too.

We asked five mobility-focused investors which startups they think are the sector's most promising. There was just one rule — they can't be in their own portfolio.

See the list here. 

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\Opinion 

VCs need to go all 'radical transparency'


The idea of 'radical transparency' — where companies share details of their operations clearly and openly — is taking off in startups. 

Now VCs need to follow suit, argues Bethnal Green Ventures' Milly Shotter — or founders will start to wonder what they have to hide. 

Read the piece here.

\Startup Life 

Veteran journalist Steve O'Hear quits TechCrunch for grocery startup


Steve O’Hear is quitting journalism after 10+ years reporting on European tech.

In an exclusive interview with Sifted's Isabel Woodford, the provocateur takes a look back at his career and explains what’s next.

Where's O'Hear off to?

News that Matters

💸 Romanian unicorn UiPath raised $1.34bn in its IPO, bringing the company a $35.8bn market capitalisation. Read our story on how early investors could see returns of 220,000%.

💻 Alphawave IP Group, the Anglo-Canadian silicon chip designer, has announced plans for a $4.5bn IPO on the London Stock Exchange. It was originally planning to list in North America.

🔒 Deep Instinct, an Israeli cybersecurity company, has raised a $100m Series D round. The company uses deep learning AI to defend against attacks in "milliseconds."

🍄 Peter Theil-backed psychedelics startup Atai, which develops drugs to help treat mental health conditions, is planning to raise $100m through an IPO, its filings show.

🍲 Belgian foodtech startup Deliverect, which provides software to restaurants to organise online orders, has raised a $65m Series C round. It saw a 750% growth in usage last year.

🛍️ In other foodtech news, London-based speedy grocery company Dija, which aims to deliver goods within 10 minutes, has launched in Madrid and Paris.

🚑 Proximie raises $38m. The British healthtech uses augmented reality to allow surgeons to work together from different geographical locations. The company describes its mission as creating a "borderless operating room".


📈 Neobroker Bitpanda raised $170m, giving it a $1.2bn valuation. The platform offers investing in fractional shares, starting from €1.

🚗 Paris-based Ornikar, which runs an online driving school, has raised a $120m Series C round. The company connects students with instructors and has an online platform for theory practice. 

Sifted Suggests

🌎 It's Earth Day. Away from the marketing stunts, here are the startup Earth Day campaigns worth paying attention to. This piece first appeared in our Sustain newsletter.

💰 CTO pay. Wondering how much chief technology officers get paid? We looked through the data to find outThis piece first appeared in our Startup Life newsletter.

💱 Coinbase's IPO was a watershed moment for the crypto sector, writes Ryan Weeks, and it also proved a big moment for European trading apps as retail investors bought big. This piece first appeared in our Fintech newsletter.

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Sifted Opinion 

Skip the Earth Day gimmicks: here's what companies should do instead
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