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• How far can the used car boom go?
• The startups tackling waste

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Fast and furious: the future for used car startups in Europe

Online second-hand car sellers in Europe hit fever pitch this year. We’ve seen the giddy rise of a new breed of car dealers like Cinch, Cazoo, Auto1 and Motorway.

Sifted took a peek under the hood of this rapidly expanding industry, mapping the companies and quizzing the experts.

How far can this industry go?

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13 startups tackling the global waste problem, according to VCs

Food waste alone accounts for four times more greenhouse gases than all flights combined, but waste in general is still an overlooked area.

Luckily, there’s an army of European startups on a mission to solve the global waste problem. 

We spoke to VCs about which ones they're following.

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News That Matters

💰 Monzo, one of Britain’s first digital banks, has closed a $500m round at an increased valuation of $4.5bn. It will be a sigh of relief for the fintech, which suffered a series of setbacks over the past year.

🤑 Iris Ventures, a new Barcelona-based investment firm, has just announced a €100m fund to invest in European consumer brands. Sifted's Tim Smith chatted to them about their investment thesis.

🖥️ Quantum Computing. Researchers in Finland have unveiled a new type of microwave controller that solves one of the big obstacles to scaling up quantum computers to the size where they can be usable.

🛍️ Easol, an ecommerce platform for businesses selling experiences, has just raised $25m in a Series A round led by Tiger Global. It’s the 29th European startup the US VC giant has backed this year, and it also gives a good indication of investor willingness to back events and travel tech. 

🇩🇰 Danish startup Pleo, which develops expense management tools aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, has raised a $200m round, giving in a $4.7bn valuation.

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