Tom Nugent

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Tom Nugent is the Managing Editor at Sifted, the Financial Times-backed publication covering Europe's startup and technology ecosystem. Based in London, Tom masterminds Sifted's suite of five free newsletters, which collectively reach tens of thousands of subscribers and have become essential daily and weekly reads for the European tech community. Beyond his editorial management role, Tom is an active reporter covering AI and robotics, university spinouts, and UK tech. His reporting on university spinouts fills an important niche, tracking how academic research is commercialized through startup formation across European universities, from Oxford and Cambridge to ETH Zurich and technical universities across the continent. Tom's coverage examines the infrastructure that supports spinout creation, including technology transfer offices, proof-of-concept funding, and the specialist investors backing early-stage deeptech companies. His reporting on robotics and AI captures how these technologies are moving from research labs into commercial applications across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and other industries. As Managing Editor, Tom plays a crucial role in ensuring Sifted's content reaches its audience effectively, overseeing newsletter strategy, distribution, and engagement across all of the publication's editorial products.

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