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August 19, 2026
Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka: ‘We're a few quarters away from $1bn ARR’
The Milan-based company is leading the EU's Europa frontier model consortium
Maya Dharampal-Hornby and John Thornhill
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This week on the podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by Uljan Sharka, the founder and CEO of Italian AI unicorn Domyn.
Uljan migrated from his home country Albania to Italy back in 2008 — without knowing a word of Italian. He soon developed a fascination with tech, later working for Apple in Silicon Valley. In 2016, he launched Milan-based Domyn, a company developing AI models and agents for enterprise use cases, as well as AI gigafactories.
The pair discuss the virtues of small language models, what Europe can hope to gain from the EU's Europa frontier model consortium — which Domyn is leading — and what founders can learn from Revolut’s Nik Storonsky.
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Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .
John Thornhill is Sifted’s founder and innovation editor of the Financial Times. He tweets from @johnthornhillft
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