🎣 How to poach talent. Imagine you've found the perfect person for a role you've been trying to fill for ages — but they currently work elsewhere. How do you poach them? We hear from Martin Sokk, cofounder and CEO of investment platform Lightyear, who's nabbed talent from scaleups like Wise, Revolut and Robinhood.
📝 The “Black Goose” memo. Our (somewhat fictional) VC columnist Rosie Wood’s firm Mild Conviction shared its take on the markets with Sifted. Founders, take note.
🇬🇧 Spice up your life as a startup people manager. Julia Carloff-Winkelmann is the chief people officer at Dance, and she says that to manage successfully at a startup you need to constantly prioritise and focus. To do that, she asks "The Spice Girls question".
🤔 What does the ESG reckoning mean for VC? Freya Pratty speaks to Micol Chiesa, formerly head of impact at Five Seasons Ventures, about the future of VC's sustainability buzzword. So is ESG dead?
🏳️🌈 Are you an LGBTQ+ founder? Proud Ventures, a UK collective of LGBTQ+ VCs and angel investors, is looking to address the huge data gap around the barriers founders from the queer community face, in a new report coming this autumn. You can help them by sharing your experiences. Take the survey here.
🎙 The Sifted Podcast. In this episode, Amy and Eleanor talk digital nomads, an alternative to Viagra, a big online grocery raise, heart disease prevention tech and how travel booking startup Omio came back from the dead.
💸 How fintechs are taking on the cost of living crisis. The prices of things we need for everyday existence are skyrocketing across Europe, but can fintechs help? From personal spending analyses to education and smart saving, these founders think they can. (In partnership with W1tty).
