The media world keeps evolving with new outlets and platforms focusing on startups to deliver the freshest, most insightful news on deals, products, and best practices. The newsletter, an old favourite, has evolved into an art form for many startup outlets and content curators. They help us save time and point us to the most interesting stories. But which are worthy of our precious inbox space?
Our team scanned through the internet of startups to bring you the ultimate list of newsletters you should be keeping up with – something insightful for every day of the week. Let’s get to it!
Sifted
It’s no coincidence that Sifted ended up on the top of our list. Backed by the Financial Times, Sifted catapulted into Europe’s finest startup media outlet at super-startup-speed. Tune in for a highly respected opinion on the top news stories as well as other longer pieces sent straight to your inbox on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Tech.eu newsletter
Get a weekly email with the top news, ranked and digested for you by the seemingly never-sleeping legends at the tech.eu team. The guys also share their podcast interviews, community content, policy commentary and other amazing things. If you have a bit of change to spare, they even deliver premium content in the form of tech market intelligence and research, data and insights.
Sifted’s Fintech newsletter
If you just can’t get enough, check out Sifted’s fintech correspondents Isabel Woodford and Tom Matsuda every Tuesday as they chat about hot topics of the week!
Sifted’s Sustain newsletter
If you’re on the hunt for great, actionable insights and how-to’s on becoming more sustainable in the startup world, look no further than Sifted’s Sustain Newsletter. Every Thursday, Sarah Drumm and Connor Bilboe analyse startups causing positive environmental effects. Read along as they investigate just how sustainable these startups are and make sure they’re keeping things clean – with NO greenwashing!
Sunday CET
Get a load of VC and entrepreneur Dragos Novac as he explores the European investment space and shares exciting insights discovered in unexpected, niche articles. This newsletter is perfect for the “visual learner,” featuring loads of helpful charts and visualisations. If you get serious FOMO, it’s great for ensuring you haven’t missed any big news over the week! As the name suggests, this newsletter gets sent out every Sunday.
Seedtable
The devil is in the details, right? Right. So, take a deep dive into specific verticals with On Deck’s Head of Growth Gonz and browse a whole range of news articles too! This one is sent out every Friyay.
Dealroom
If you’re a numbers person (or you want to be), Dealroom is the platform for you! And if you’re not into the numbers but want to be updated with an overview of deals in Europe, tune into this weekly European view from a data organisation, including its latest ecosystem maps and reports, by one of the most comprehensive databases of funding news.
CB Insights
Looking to keep up with trends, backed by numbers? CB Insights crunch numbers from CrunchBase all day. Their reports offer trends and market analysis, using visualisations and graphs and the latest numbers to paint a detailed macro picture. Note that some content is behind a paywall, so you may have to pay to view certain pieces, and some of their data is more specifically from the United States.
Femstreet
Let’s hear it for the ladies with this weekly round-up of stories about women in tech! Femstreet is an incredibly valuable source for discovering new female-run companies, and we’d say it’s well worth the subscription to receive an additional newsletter every Friday! Pssst, there are also a bunch of subscriber perks!
Anna’s Weekly Fintech Roundup
Must-read fintech news curated by Reuters’ fintech correspondent Anna Irrera. This newsletter is a weekly round-up you do not want to miss out on, but it’s important to note that this one can also be pretty focused on data from the United States.
This Week in Fintech
Nik Milanović is not just a fintech strategy guy; he’s THE fintech strategy guy; after all, he is Head of BD & Strategy at Google Pay, and he’s got some news for you (every Friday, in fact.) Make sure you give it a read!
Fintech Brain Food
When Simon says “do this,” we’d recommend doing it. Not because he told you to, but because Simon Taylor is a super-smart guy who understands technicalities incredibly well; he leads a podcast called Blockchain Insider, and he’s also the Chief Product Officer for fintech company, 11:FS. This man knows his stuff.
First Round Review
Ready for bucket loads of brilliant operational advice and insights? Check out the First Round newsletter (and online magazine) from US VC firm First Round. This one mostly features companies from the United States but includes excellent content nonetheless.
TEN (the entrepreneurs’ network) Friday Newsletter
Aaaaand to put all the puzzle pieces together, we’ve got a weekly digest and update from TEN, connecting the dots of tech, startups, politics, policy, news, views, events, and competitions. Make sure you catch this newsletter every Friday.
The Flip Africa
Okay, so we know this one is not specifically European, but hear us out. The Flip Africa has excellent analyses and universal evidence and resources, not to mention Africa being a hot ecosystem to watch at the moment!
Congratulations! You’ve made it through what we’d consider the most valuable resources for European startups and Tech; we think it’s a fantastic way to start getting a deeper understanding of this fascinating, dynamic world. Be sure to look out for more country and sector-specific content; there’s plenty out there. We may even have one or two future blog posts up our sleeves on those and other regions beyond Europe!
If you made it this far, we think we’ve got a lot in common! So stay tuned for more valuable information to help you better understand the startup world and PR … coming straight to you from Black Unicorn PR!
