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Carly Minsky

  • Technology Journalist and Content Creator, Freelance
London
As seen in: LinkedIn, Medium, Financial Times, Metro (UK), Yahoo Finance, VICE, VICE UK, HuffPost UK, The Culture Trip, Times Higher Education and
Covers:  Technology, science, data, artificial intelligence, computing, cybersecurity, B2B, fintech, startups, policy, tech for good
Doesn't Cover: Gadgets
Tech journalist & content creator. Preoccupied with philosophical ponderings, fighting the patriarchy & advocating for rescue dogs. Also writing a novel.
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The secret of investing in "Silver Tech" for the elderly

The secret of investing in "Silver Tech" for the elderly

Sifted — Age Tech startups are tackling care for the elderly, but many are overlooking the fact that retirees want to have fun. One of Skype's first investors says that's where the real money is.
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Transferwise has turned employees into millionaires

Transferwise has turned employees into millionaires

Sifted — Transferwise employees and alumni, so-called "Wisers", are now armed with more than $70m to pour into new ventures as the fintech becomes the highest valued in Europe.
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Big companies prefer "innovation theatre" to working with startups

Big companies prefer "innovation theatre" to working with startups

Sifted — Startup disruption is a key motivator for corporate innovation in Europe, but a new survey shows big companies still turn their backs on startups.
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How an “Internet of Things for science labs” startup is going viral

How an “Internet of Things for science labs” startup is going viral

Sifted — A startup for science labs aims to solve the reproducibility crisis by bringing automation to tedious tasks.
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How the CERN physics lab is supercharging European startups

How the CERN physics lab is supercharging European startups

Sifted — The world's biggest physics lab runs startup accelerators all over Europe. But turning science into business isn't much easier than finding the God particle.
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Here are the startups from GCHQ's first engineering accelerator

Here are the startups from GCHQ's first engineering accelerator

Sifted — Four UK startups have just graduated from GCHQ's first ever engineering accelerator, with one closing a six-figure deal during the programme.
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Startup culture in Porto: sun, sea and surfing

Startup culture in Porto: sun, sea and surfing

Sifted — Portugal's coastal city is becoming an international hub for startup founders, digital nomads and venture capitalists.
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Therapeutic tech is here: meet the "emotional fitness" startups

Therapeutic tech is here: meet the "emotional fitness" startups

Sifted — Can tech improve your “emotional fitness”? London’s entrepreneurs think so, offering videos to boost specific neurotransmitters, mind control headsets, and even digitally-driven digital detox.
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Three cities along Poland’s Baltic coast are attracting Europe’s entrepreneurs

Three cities along Poland’s Baltic coast are attracting Europe’s entrepreneurs

Sifted — On the Baltic Coast in Northern Poland, three cities have joined forces to create a burgeoning startup ecosystem and attract international companies to the region.
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Stripe warns of challenges for Europe's ecommerce startups

Stripe warns of challenges for Europe's ecommerce startups

Sifted — New European restrictions on online purchases could cost the ecommerce sector tens of billions of euros in lost revenue and hold back the growth of new startups, according to the payments giant Stripe.
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A "dating" app for directors and actors could revolutionise casting

A "dating" app for directors and actors could revolutionise casting

Sifted — Romantic matchmaking moved online years ago, so why are film directors still searching for actors the old fashioned way?
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Paternity leave is complicated for male startup founders

Paternity leave is complicated for male startup founders

Sifted — Taking significant time off is always a challenge for work-obsessed startup founders. It's even more complicated for expectant fathers struggling to set the right tone for paternity leave.
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Medical cannabis startup Jacana takes on big pharma

Medical cannabis startup Jacana takes on big pharma

Sifted — Entrepreneur Alexandra Chong is best known as the founder of the controversial dating intelligence app Lulu, which lets women anonymously review and rate men. Today the British-Jamaican has turned her hand to another contentious topic: weed.
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Football clubs are buying ball-detecting boot sensors

Football clubs are buying ball-detecting boot sensors

Sifted — Israeli-British startup PlayerMaker has launched its performance-enhancing football tech this season — and has big plans for conquering Europe.
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OpenAI's "dangerous" tool is an example of AI negligence

OpenAI's "dangerous" tool is an example of AI negligence

Sifted — OpenAI's new "dangerous" text-writing tool epitomises the "invent first, worry later" approach.
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Marketing agency Buzzbar is reshaping the marketing industry

Marketing agency Buzzbar is reshaping the marketing industry

Sifted — Drop-in marketing service Buzzbar is a cross between an Apple store, a coworking space, and a marketing agency for bootstrapped startups.
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VR gloom and other European tech trends

VR gloom and other European tech trends

Sifted — Venture capital investment trends in Europe 2018
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Crime-fighting crypto detectives go undercover on the dark web

Crime-fighting crypto detectives go undercover on the dark web

Sifted — The startup Elliptic is on a mission to weed out the crypto-criminals — and the team are not afraid to get their hands dirty.
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E-money “onslaught” hits Lithuania

E-money “onslaught” hits Lithuania

Sifted — The Baltic fintech hub struggles to keep up with Brexit-fuelled interest from international payment companies.
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How to name your startup

How to name your startup

Sifted — A company name is the very first chance to make an impression, tell a story and cultivate trust. That's a lot of work for just one word or two.
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Fintech startup Raize used an IPO to change its reputation

Fintech startup Raize used an IPO to change its reputation

Sifted — For Portuguese peer-to-peer lender Raize, its public listing was mainly about the marketing.
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Startups in Palestine: Innovating in a warzone

Startups in Palestine: Innovating in a warzone

Sifted — Amid the curfews and the checkpoints, Palestine is developing centres of innovation.
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Why one VC investor invites entrepreneurs to go for a walk

Why one VC investor invites entrepreneurs to go for a walk

Sifted — London investor Tim Jackson has an unconventional method for scoping out talent.
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Virtual dinosaurs will future-proof museums

Virtual dinosaurs will future-proof museums

Sifted — Immersive technology is at the centre of a government-funded plan to evolve cultural institutions for the digital age.
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