Today, Tech.eu and Stripe have released the (free) “Life is Growth” report, a deep dive into the state of play for growth-stage technology companies in Europe. This is the second report Tech.eu and Stripe release after “Seed the Future” (November 2018), which looked specifically at early-stage investment in Europe. What’s clear from the report is […]
Invest Europe, the association that aims to represent European private equity and VC with over 1,400 member firms, has released a free report (PDF) on the private capital deployment activity it tracked in 2018. According to the organisation, private equity investment in Europe has hit a new record, increasing 7 percent year-over-year to reach €80.6 […]
I am on my way to Estonia for the annual Startup Day in university town Tartu, where I will be braving the cold to deliver presentations tomorrow and on Thursday. One of the things I will be shining a light on tomorrow at the Investor Day is how the European tech scene did in 2018 […]
International early-stage startup investment firm Click Ventures has recently presented and published an extensive overview of what the global blockchain ecosystem looked like in 2018, put together with help from Tech.eu, Estonia’s Funderbeam and Oddup. The report we contributed to offers a ton of data points and insights, and best of all: it’s free of […]
We’re thrilled to announce our latest report, developed in close partnership with Stripe and Techstars and launched today on the main stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon. It’s a doozy. It’s the first time anyone has ever undertaken research on early-stage technology startup activity on such a scale, this extensively. We dug deep, is […]
Europe’s tech scene is rapidly maturing, as evidenced by a steady increase in equity funding in tech startups, an amount reaching €25 billion+ in 2017. The region is also now home to 57 ‘unicorns’, according to research by GP Bullhound. Europe’s great diversity – an amalgamation of over 40 countries with their own languages, cultures, […]
Investment firm Eight Roads has commissioned Longitude Research to conduct a quantitative study of 313 technology startup founders across Europe (with a focus on companies in Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK with a minimum revenue of $1 million). The findings are quiet interesting, but since Eight Roads has published the results on […]