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Meet the UK and Ireland’s fastest-growing startups in 2025! ?? We're back with our second annual Sifted 100: UK & Ireland Leaderboard, in partnership with Marriott Harrison. This ranking features the 100 fastest-growing startups in order of revenue growth. This year’s list is packed with fresh insights: 75 new startups have entered the leaderboard, fintech is the most dominant sector (40 companies), nine $1bn+ unicorns are highlighted and many more trends are shaping the ecosystem. ???? See the rising stars here: https://lnkd.in/eY4TmFt2 #SiftedLeaderboards #Sifted100 #FastestGrowingStartups?

Code by day, beer by night ? Yesterday’s OSS Beer brought together 50+ infra & open-source builders for great convos, good vibes, beers & pizzas :) Shoutout to everyone who came out, and hugs to Anh-Tho, Antoine & Ugo for co-organising ?? #opensource #infra #builders

?? Welinq introduces QDrive: the world’s most efficient quantum memory product We’re very proud to launch QDrive, the first high-performance commercial quantum memory designed for quantum data centers and quantum communication networks. This marks a pivotal advancement in building the infrastructure needed for scalable quantum computing. ???? With QDrive, quantum processors can work together efficiently, unlocking new possibilities through quantum networking. It’s a key and game-changing element, bringing Welinq’s full-stack and multi-platform solution to the forefront of the quantum industry by combining cutting-edge hardware and software to interconnect quantum processors.? ?? Watch our launch video directly in this post & on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ekQESrH7 ?? Read the official press release: https://lnkd.in/eG4sk5Ds For technical details, please feel free to comment on this post, message us here on LinkedIn, or reach out at [email protected] to receive our technical blog post before its official release. This is only the beginning! Quantonation, Runa Capital, Sorbonne Université, CNRS Innovation, Région ?le-de-France, Christophe Jurczak, Dmitry Galperin, Francesco Ricciuti, Eléonore de Rose, Christopher Spillane ? AGENCE OBLIQUE | Alexis Anice for the pictures, Alexandre Boucher for the flat design, eliumstudio and Thomas Droze for the 3D rendering #QuantumComputing #QuantumNetworking #QuantumMemory #QuantumDataCenters #QDrive #Welinq

?? OSS Beer #6 is happening next week! Lago, Probo, Hexa & Runa Capital are bringing open-source builders & founders for a “git” together ???? ?? March 19 ?? Beer & Pizza ?? All things OSS Join us for great convos, good vibes & a cold one (rsvp link in comments ????) Anh-Tho, Raffi, Antoine, Bryan, Ugo, Faustine, Konstantin, Christopher

NEW: AI talent crisis — How European startups are looking to outcompete rivals for tech workers --- Europe’s AI startups are being forced to ramp up creative recruiting tactics as they sweat over a talent shortage among AI workers and try to outcompete each other for the best hires. Some of the continent’s buzziest AI startups tell Sifted there are more roles being created at tech companies in Europe than there are people to fill them — and that competition is getting fiercer. At the core of the increased demand for AI talent is record investor money flowing into the sector and US players such as OpenAI and Anthropic hiring on European shores. The emergence of AI agents as the new?hype sector?in VC is also pushing more companies into the race to recruit AI-specialised software engineers. An outflux of European AI talent to the US is narrowing the pool further. “Many well capitalised AI companies in the US are hiring talented PhDs and technical engineers from European countries, who then later relocate to the US,” says Denny G., San Francisco-based investor at Runa Capital. Now execs at AI darlings, including ElevenLabs, Synthesia and Nscale, say they’re stepping efforts to get closer to star researchers from Europe’s top institutions, upskilling engineers internally and even looking to lean on AI agents to pick up some of the slack as the nascent tech develops. “AI talent has never been in higher demand, and US Big Tech expanding into Europe has only intensified competition,” says Daniel Bathurst, chief product officer at AI data centre startup Nscale. Full story: https://lnkd.in/ePCinwBE

?? Welinq & QphoX Partner to Interconnect Superconducting QPUs Recent announcements about superconducting quantum processors show that this long-standing contender represents one of the most promising platforms for quantum computing. The next step is to network these chips into larger systems to scale beyond single, monolithic chips. ??? We are delighted to announce that Welinq and QphoX are partnering to develop optical quantum interconnects, allowing superconducting QPUs to communicate efficiently. This collaboration combines QphoX’s quantum transduction expertise with Welinq’s full-stack quantum links, creating a seamless bridge between superconducting QPUs. This partnership is a major milestone for Welinq. It extends our quantum interconnect technology beyond neutral-atom and photonic QPUs, reinforcing our full-stack and multi-platform approach. Find more information in the Press Release below: ?? https://lnkd.in/edAcbiZ7 Quantonation, Runa Capital, Christophe Jurczak, Olivier Tonneau, Dmitry Galperin, Francesco Ricciuti, Simon Groeblacher, Robert Stockill, Ceren Spuyman, Tom Darras, Eleni Diamanti, Julien Laurat, Eléonore de Rose, Christopher Spillane

We are hiring! Join our worldclass team to develop the next generation of universal #RISCVeverywhere microprocessors. https://lnkd.in/eY_D7px2