The European startup ecosystem has been showing great growth numbers over the past year, which was well documented by ourselves and other organisations that keep track of the numbers. In the first quarter of this year, however, we also noticed a significant number of startups entering the unicorn territory — a metric that may be showing […]
A new report commissioned and created by European Women in VC, Experior VC, and Unconventional Ventures found that in terms of capital productivity, women outperform men by as much as 96% in the CEE region. The “Funding in the CEE region – through the lens of gender diversity and impact” report provides a new perspective […]
Data company PitchBook today released its 2020 Annual European Venture Report, sharing key funding and exit stats and insights to (once again) recognise European Tech’s record year – as well as its challenges ahead. In a year that will forever be remembered as the year of the global coronavirus outbreak, PitchBook says the European tech […]
In partnership with Finstar, an international private equity and investment advisory firm with around $2 billion of assets under management, we are today launching a brand new report focused on the ever-growing fintech sector in Europe. Based on Tech.eu’s proprietary database of deals, with complementary analysis of the state of European fintech by our editorial […]
Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Chris O’Brien, an American journalist in Toulouse, France where he writes about technology, startups, travel, and culture. It was first published over at The French Tech Journal, his newsletter. Despite the insanity, 2020 turned out to be a blockbuster year for startup fundraising in France. Those numbers […]
Paris-founded startup PandaScore, which provides the fast-growing esports entertainment industry with real-time AI-powered statistics, has raised €5 million in a funding round led by V13 Invest, with prior backer Alven participating alongside sports tech investor KB Partners and aXiomatic Gaming. Collecting data from ongoing esports matches, PandaScore uses its AI tech to sift out and […]
Editor’s note: this is an article from Crunchbase News written by research lead Gené Teare and syndicated with permission. To understand the impact of the pandemic on global venture funding, we took a look at comparative trends for the first four months of each year from 2016 through to 2020. The impact to technology companies […]