Here’s the bad news: there’s new research that investigates the role gender plays in a startup founder’s ability to raise private capital in Europe, and it turns out that if you’re a woman, your chances of raising cash are extremely low. The good news is … actually there is no good news, it’s all pretty […]
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 […]
Editor’s note: last summer, I was kindly invited to contribute to a book called ‘Faster than the future’, commissioned by the Digital Future Society, a programme supported by the Government of Spain in collaboration with Mobile World Capital Barcelona that seeks to ‘build an inclusive, equitable and sustainable future in the digital era’. I wrote […]
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 […]
As the European tech ecosystems continue to mature, the US has seemingly lost its relocation shine, and local tech startups are no longer hellbent on expanding their R&D ops across the Atlantic. That is the main conclusion of new research done by international investment firm Index Ventures, which has surveyed more than 100 European startups […]
As EU member states are set to sign off on a series of broad commitments to transform the bloc’s digital agenda, the World Economic Forum (WEF) today released a great report entitled ‘Bridging the Gap in European Scale-up Funding: The Green Imperative in an Unprecedented Time’ (PDF link). In the interest of full disclosure, I […]