4 - 5 Oct 2023, London
Meet the Sifted team in the Newsroom
All Sifted Summit panels and interviews are moderated by Sifted's very own editorial team. With expertise across the industry, our speakers are in safe hands — and you can be sure they won't shy away from the tough conversations.
You'll find the full Sifted editorial team in the newsroom (when they’re not on the stage). They’ll be looking for the inside scoop on the hottest startups — drop in for a chat, you can see the full schedule HERE!
John co-founded Sifted in 2018 with the ambition of it becoming the "voice" of Europe's startup community. He remains Sifted's editorial director and has a particular fascination in artificial intelligence and quantum computing. He is also the Innovation editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly award-winning column on the impact of technology and hosts the Tech Tonic podcast. In a 30-year career at the FT, John has been deputy editor, news editor, European edition editor, and bureau chief in both Paris and Moscow.
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Amy is Sifted’s editor and leads the publication’s team of journalists around the continent. She’s the cohost of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast and writes Up Round, a weekly newsletter on VC. Since joining Sifted as its first employee in 2018, she’s reported on everything from fintech to foodtech — and particularly enjoys scrutinising whatever happens to be the latest investment hype.
Eleanor is Sifted’s deputy editor. She helps manage the team and determine editorial strategy, while also contributing to Sifted’s coverage of the ins and outs of VC. She is the co-author of Sifted’s VC newsletter, Up Round, and co-host of Sifted’s podcast, Startup Europe. She started her career as a correspondent in the Wall Street Journal’s Tokyo bureau and was communications manager at Atomico. She has an MBA from INSEAD.
Tom is Sifted's digital editor who works across newsletters, SEO and evergreen content strategy. He's interested in university spinouts and science-based startups.
Mimi has been a journalist for over a decade and has focused on tech startups since 2015. At Sifted she reports on the latest from the Nordics as well as European healthtech. She occasionally co-hosts the Sifted podcast and is the editorial lead for Sifted events. Prior to joining Sifted in 2019 she was a tech reporter at the Swedish business daily Dagens Industri.
Freya is a senior reporter covering climate tech and working on investigations. After a stint working for Sifted in Paris, Freya is now based in London. She previously worked at Bloomberg and The Daily Star in Lebanon, as well as writing for places like the Guardian, the Financial Times and Middle East Eye.
Tim writes about deeptech with a particular focus on AI, and works on investigations. He also produces Startup Europe — the Sifted Podcast, bringing our audience a weekly dose of the latest goings on in European tech. He started his career on the Guardian’s tech weekly podcast, before becoming a producer at BBC World Service Radio, and then moving to Spain, where he became Sifted’s first Iberia correspondent. Find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Zosia covers startups in central and eastern Europe. She also keeps a close eye on European policies affecting startups, and regulatory changes in Brussels and beyond. Previously she worked for POLITICO and MLex in Brussels and for the Financial Times as a reporter in London, Paris and Warsaw. She speaks English, Polish and French.
Amy covers the busy world of fintech, writing our weekly Fintech newsletter. She’s also interested in venture capital and the burgeoning Italian startup scene. She’s been featured in the Financial Times, The Guardian, Reuters, and was most recently investment reporter at City AM. Amy started out in investor relations for Italian ecommerce startup Yoox in Milan. Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Kai is a reporter at Sifted and covers healthtech and UK tech. He’s based in London, and is interested in the human side of startups, the shift to digital in European healthcare systems and UK startup policy.
Anisah is a startup life reporter and the co-author of the Startup Life newsletter. She’s interested in the practicalities of company building, from culture to tech stacks. She’s also the founder of coding school for women 23 Code Street and consults with companies on how to make tech more inclusive.
As Sifted’s editorial assistant, Sadia covers news, features, the flagship newsletter and the techbio sector, and helps out on almost everything in between. She joined Sifted after a Masters degree in literature from the University of Warwick and previously worked at digital media startup The Know. You can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Éanna writes and edits Sifted's monthly reports and weekly briefings. He also writes news features, serious investigative pieces and columns. He previously worked as a journalist in Brussels, where he disentangled EU science and innovation policy.
