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Finding out the most interesting developments and surprising twists in the European startup ecosystem through Slush’s extensive data.
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State of European Tech 2021
2021 will go down in the history books as the year when European tech proved its last doubters wrong and joined the big league. We are on track to cross $100B in capital invested in a single year—more than doubling last year’s figure. To have done so in these challenging times is a great display of resilience in history.
State of European Tech, by Atomico in partnership with Slush, is the definitive piece of research on what’s happening in our ecosystem.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP REDEFINED
As the world is going through turmoil, the time is ripe for some introspection. Now more than ever, the world needs founders; people who embrace uncertainty, see patterns in chaos and fearlessly build technologies that take humankind forward. To maximize the depth and scale of these technologies, we need to address the shortfalls of the last decade. In short, we need to redefine entrepreneurship.
We have joined forces with the European startup ecosystem to redefine entrepreneurship. In our whitepaper, we lay out how startups of the 2020s will look different from those of the decade gone by.
State of European Tech 2020
Published by Atomico in partnership with Orrick and Slush and with support from Silicon Valley Bank, this year’s Report analyzes input from more 3,000 founders, investors and visionaries. It also highlights the factors that will shape the future of European tech: the evolving funding and exit landscapes and the imperative to develop a more diverse, equitable and purpose-driven ecosystem.
Quarantined Growth
In an effort to get a pulse of the actual impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the startup ecosystem, we sent out a survey In October and received 338 responses from founders around the globe. Based on this survey and a previous piece of Slush research from May, we put together this research report in collaboration with our partners, City of Helsinki and NGP Capital to share some insights on the past, present and future impact of this crisis through the lens of startup founders and entrepreneurs.
COVID-19 SURVEY FOR STARTUPS & INVESTORS
To shed light on uncertain times amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Slush distributed two surveys on how startups and investors have been affected by the crisis. Altogether, 264 startups and 143 investors took the survey. Through the granularity of the data, we aim to give founders and operators some context around the hardships that they are currently facing.