Sifted Podcast: Inside Checkout.com’s exec exodus

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The particular visitor on the pod this week was Wouter Draijer, founder and CEO of SolarMente, a Spanish photo voltaic power startup and Y Combinator graduate, which simply this week raised €50m in debt and fairness to scale its photo voltaic panel subscription service for properties.

We mentioned:

How SolarMente’s subscriptions work;
Why it selected Spain as its first market;
What it is like elevating debt.

We had been additionally joined by Sifted journalist Kai Nicol-Schwarz to speak about his go to to a coworking retreat hosted by the most important startup neighborhood you are unlikely to have heard of — however maybe ought to get to know.

And in our information roundup, we coated:

Checkout.com’s exec exodus and layoffs ‘by stealth’ 
TravelPerk’s ‘mini-revolt’ over distant working 
Founders ready ‘far too lengthy’ for EIC fund money