Workshop: “Startup Europe!”

Scaling European Startups

European Startups: Final Call for the Unicorn Club?

Methodology:  This  chart  only  includes  companies  that  are  privately  held,  have  raised  money  in  the  last  three  years  and  have  at  least  one  venture  capital  firm  as  an  investor.  Source:  Dow  Jones  VentureSource  and  The  Wall  Street  Journal  

Only 3 European companies are in the «Billion-Dollar Startup Club» BUT A growing number of startups are entering the Unicorn «MiniClub»(e.g. Delivery Hero, iZettle, …) 1,000+ European startups have raised $1M+ in the last 3 yrs. 57% of actively fundraising startups have been founded after 2010

Source: SEP Monitor – May 2014

Mapping the European “Scaleups”

Source: Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) Monitor – May 2014 *Preliminary Data

Year  of  Founda4on   <  2005   2005-­‐9   2010-­‐14  %  of  Scaleups   6%   37%   57%  

European Scaleups by Country(>$1M in funding, 2011-14)

European Scaleups by Year of Foundation (>$1M in funding, 2011-14)

Over 200 ICT exits reported in Europe in the last 3 yrs. Approx. 30 companies acquired for more than $100M Authomy and Supercell broke the $1B barrier 5 IPOs got an over $1B valuation. BUT United States is the typical exit door 47% of acquirers are US based companies.

Source: SEP Monitor – July 2014

Mapping the European “Exits”

Source: Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) Monitor – July 2014 *Preliminary Data

European ICT Exits per Year (2011-14)

Geography of the Exited Scaleups

The Startup Europe Partnership “We all win when startups move to scaleups”(David Butler, The Coca-Cola Company)

The Vision: •  We’ll see a much larger percentage of

startups move to scaleups, if we can get the starters of the world to build with the scalers of the world

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