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“55% of European startups get funding easily, but entire regions lack VC systems”
...a lot of European countries, not in the Northwest, but we still have a lot of European countries without a properly functioning VC system.
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...than 10 European startups hitting unicorn status this year. But while European funding is dominating the early stages with a laser focus on local innovation, late stage capital is still flowing primarily from The US. So what does this mean for Europe
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in European venture backed companies. That's changed a lot, I would say, over the last, you know, five years. Like, when I joined SoftBank Vision Fund, we were the only fund that could write a check of more than $7,080,000,000 dollars in Europe. Now
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...to European companies, 1,000,000,000 going to UK, and the rest is rest of the world. So the question is for twelve months now, we are starting to see a ratio
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...for European startups. Listen, I wanna move into a quick fire because otherwise I could talk to you all day. So I say a short statement. You give me your immediate thoughts. Sound okay? Yeah. Let's try. What do you believe that most around you disbel
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“Why Europe's next unicorns are hiding in plain sight across fragmented markets”
And the biggest issue with that type of investment strategy in Europe is to know that the company exists. Because you see, although, you know, of course, there is some geographic fragmentation also in
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market insight2:16 – 2:45
Spain is, a little bit behind in terms of venture, but growing very, very quickly. And then Italy is is quite a long way behind. I think some of the less obvious parts of Europe that are actually really prominent from a venture perspective is one is
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...15% of European climate tech startups reach series b funding. In The US, it's 25%. And that funding gap since 2015 is per year over €2,700,000,000 and missed scale up capital. Here's the hopeful part. Data show that we are picking up and Europe has e
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...startups will be gone, or they will be under financed, resulting in lagging in the technology. So what can we do? A few ideas here. The first one is about what do we have to do in the real short term, because that's a problem we have now. There is a
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...on on on those European companies. And I think a little bit unfairly that they are not the same criteria for other companies competing in Europe.
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...with startups, to have a structure of doing that, to organize alignment of the top, the innovation part and the business units. And also one of the issues we have announced is we are going to create a European corporate network of all the companies.
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...19 year old European entrepreneur. I know. I look a little bit older. You're advising me. I've started this business and I'm really excited about it. We're a million
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that's just better than we're doing it. So I'm not very positive on on large corporations in Europe. I'm very bullish on, you know, small enterprise. And and I'll give you a couple of reasons. One is simply volume of people. I think there's there's w
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it's the result of experiences. Right? When I was a bolder tone, I realized that I had a passion. And my passion was to invest very early stage. When I say very early stage, I mean fundamentally pre product market fit. And I was very lucky to have th
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...very talented young people who wanna be working at startups.
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...European ecosystem recently valued at $75,000,000,000. You know, they got their initial wedge from dealing with the complexity of having to travel across Europe and deal with different currencies and get ripped up by the banks on FX. And so they kind
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