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Sifted Summit 2026

Sifted Summit is Europe's leading event for high growth startups and scale ups, bringing together founders, investors and innovators to shape the future of tech.

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80Speakers
40Sponsors
30Exhibitors
94On the bill · sessions
129Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Sifted, in alphabetical order.
Abhi Thanendran
Cofounder and CEO · Tilt
Adriana Vitagliano
Partner - firstminute capital · firstminute capital
Alexis Robert
General Partner - Kima Ventures · Kima Ventures
Anas Biad
Partner - Sequoia Capital · Sequoia Capital
Anisah Osman Britton
Sifted Summit Director
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
CEO - Nu Quantum · Nu Quantum
Charlotte Lawrence
Managing Director, Direct Equity · British Business Bank
Chloé Poisbeau
COO - Alice & Bob · Alice & Bob
Chris Adelsbach
Partner - Outrun Ventures · Outrun Ventures
Christopher Penfold
Commercial Director · ForrestBrown
Cole Bittel
Founder - Walt · Walt
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet
Senior Tech Reporter - Sifted · Sifted
David Reger
Founder and CEO - NEURA Robotics · NEURA Robotics
David Winch
Managing Director, co-Head GTM & Enterprise · True Search
Dimitris Triantafyllidis
Senior Investment Director - Aramco Ventures · Aramco Ventures
Elina Berrebi
Founding Partner - Revaia · Revaia
Emma Burrows
Cofounder and CTO - Portia AI · Portia AI
Felix Steffens
CEO - WorkMotion · WorkMotion
Francesco Sciortino
CEO · Proxima Fusion
Fredrik Hjelm
Founder - Voi · Voi
Freya Pratty
Associate Editor · Sifted
Hadi Moussa
CEO · Oyster
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AirwallexAssociate Partner
Alma AngelsCommunity Partner
Anthropic/ClaudeAssociate Partner
BAE HQCommunity Partner
British Business BankAssociate Partner
BusinettesCommunity Partner
CrowdcubeAssociate Partner
Dell TechnologiesAssociate Exhibitor
E-residency EstoniaAssociate Partner
European Innovation CouncilAssociate Partner
FlexAIAssociate Partner
FounderlandCommunity Partner
Germany Trade and InvestAssociate Partner
Gossip GroupCommunity Partner
HSBC Innovation BankingSupporting Partner
IDA IrelandAssociate Exhibitor
La French TechAssociate Partner
Latham & WatkinsHeadline Partner
LBSAssociate Partner
MarquetaAssociate Partner
Marriott HarrisonAssociate Partner
MercuryoAssociate Partner
Morgan StanleyMajor Partner
Muslamic MakersCommunity Partner
NebiusSupporting Partner
OpusCommunity Partner
Product LandCommunity Partner
RedalpineAssociate Partner
Runway EastAssociate Exhibitor
SigmaCommunity Partner
SolflareAssociate Partner
Sunday GroupAssociate Exhibitor
Techscaler ScotlandAssociate Partner
UKRIAssociate Exhibitor
V7Associate Partner
VantaSupporting Partner
WeWorkAssociate Partner
Wise for BusinessAssociate Partner
WorkdaySupporting Partner
Zebras UniteCommunity Partner
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Agenda

Selected from 94 sessions on the bill.
  • 01 Oct 2026

    AEO: Get found by AI, get chosen by buyers

    AI answer engines are changing how startups get discovered. Increasingly, buyers are using AI to research vendors, compare options, and build shortlists before they ever visit a we…

    Workshops
  • 01 Oct 2026

    Competing for talent with the big dogs

  • 01 Oct 2026

    Creators: the most important marketing channel in tech?

    SUL
  • 01 Oct 2026

    Fireside with the founder of HelloFresh

    Stage 2
  • 01 Oct 2026

    From Cursor to Claude: The future of engineering

    Stage 2
  • 01 Oct 2026

    From noise to noticed

    Roundtables
  • 01 Oct 2026

    Growth, but not at all costs

    Stage 2
  • 01 Oct 2026

    Harry Stebbings fireside

  • 01 Oct 2026

    How do you land government contracts?

    AI/Deeptech
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 129 companies show up, and 14 bet on three roles at once?

129 companies. fourteen are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
14All threespeak · spons · exh
33Sponsoringsponsor only
18Exhibitingexhibitor only
64Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

British Business Bank·Crowdcube·Latham & Watkins·European Innovation Council·IDA Ireland·LBS·WeWork·Aramco Ventures·Freedman International·Lightbringer·OpenPayd·Oyster·Picsart·True Search

Speakers by seniority

93% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite3544%
  • Founder / Owner2531%
  • VP-level34%
  • Director / Head of1114%
  • Manager / Lead11%
  • Other roles56%

Of 80 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01British Business BankSp·AEx1V
  2. 02CrowdcubeSp·AEx1V
  3. 03Latham & WatkinsSp·H3V
  4. 04European Innovation CouncilSp·AEx
  5. 05IDA IrelandSp·AEx
  6. 06LBSSp·AEx
  7. 07WeWorkSp·A1V
  8. 08AirwallexSp·A
  9. 09Alma AngelsSp·C
  10. 10Anthropic/ClaudeSp·A
  11. 11Aramco VenturesEx1V
  12. 12BAE HQSp·C
  13. 13BusinettesSp·C
  14. 14Dell TechnologiesSp·A
Sponsors by tier
associate exhibitor5
13% of 40
associate partner19
48% of 40
community partner10
25% of 40
headline partner1
3% of 40
major partner1
3% of 40
supporting partner4
10% of 40
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Related events · by shared sponsors