Investment in the European tech-scene reached an all time high in 2017. The established European tech-hubs developed through strong corporate backing, while up and coming hubs have stronger public private partnerships.
Speaker: Nicolai Strøm-Olsen, Author and Founder, Startup Migrants and Kunstforum
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3. - Barclays Bank (1736) University of Oxford
- France (1789) ETH
- Nokia (1865)
- Ericsson (1876)
- RWE (1898)
- Lufthansa (1926)
- Estonian State (1991)
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5. - Q4 of 2017, U.K. startups accounted for almost half of the $4.27 billion raised European startups.
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6. - London: The most global ecosystem, best access to capital, talent and good taxation. Strong in fintech.
- Berlin: Highest number of industrial incubators, attracts talent, strong in Blockchain.
- Stockholm: Highest number of unicorns per capita and strong in B to C.
- Heritage matters: Sweden is strong in B to C with HM, IKEA, Ericsson and ABBA.
- Q4 of 2017, U.K. startups accounted for almost half of the $4.27 billion raised European startups.
- According to Start-up Heat Map 85 percent of founders were against Brexit – but still London gains
attraction in comparison to other cities.
The strengths of the established ecosystems
7. - 21 percent of Europeans entrepreneurs are migrants. (36 percent non-EU)
- 54 percent of entrepreneurs in London and 43 percent in Berlin are foreign born.
- In the UK 9 of 10 companies worth more than $1 billion have a migrant in the founding team.
- In the UK migrants are three times as likely as native born to start a business.
- Opposed to UK and US – migrants find it harder to scale in Europe.
Migrants starting business – exceeding a national precedent.
12. - Lisbon: Sexy former P in PIGS with strong public investment and low cost of living.
- Amsterdam: Liberal city becomes a test bed for the EU with VR and AI.
- Oslo: The oil area is coming to an end leading to public investment and inexpensive talent.
- The first hubs had strong corporate backing.
- Up coming hubs are based on public private partnerships
- Up coming hubs tend to have trouble scaling and loose companies to the UK and US.
The strengths of the up-coming ecosystems
15. - We are moving from consumer internet to the industrial internet.
- Europe has a strong industrial base which is investing in deep tech
- Europe has world leading SMBs and European scaleups are predominantly B2B (55%).
- Europe can scale out – and 41 Unicorns since 2003.
Heritage, “mittelstand” and corporates
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