This week WeTech Rotterdam is announcing a new Startup Ecosystem Map for Rotterdam. The city of Rotterdam is known to be Europe’s largest shipping port, and important indsutrial & technological…

In Q1 of 2018, European companies received €4.9 billion of investment from investors globally. Compared with previous quarters, this was the third most active quarter ever, as the below interactive chart shows. To…

Spotify is Europe’s largest VC-backed exit and most valuable VC-backed company ever; Spotify is also ranked among Europe’s top-ten most valuable tech companies. What’s next? By all indications, 2018 is…

Farfetch is eyeing an IPO in the US (possibly its largest market) with a rumoured valuation up to $5 billion. How to put that valuation into perspective? Farfetch’s 2016…

With investment of €28 billion, 2018 was a record year for European venture capital (or €21 billion, when excluding biotech and Europe). It was a record year for VC-backed exits…

A record €19.2 billion was invested (€22.1 billion including Israel) in 2017. The full European Venture Capital Report is now available for free below as PDF presentation:

The advent of big tech and mega-rounds UK investment nearly doubled from $4.2 to $7.8 billion in 2017. Mega-rounds were a major growth driver. For instance, 2017 saw 22 rounds over…

The heatmap above shows the most active venture capital investors in 2017, by number of European rounds. Again, Bpifrance leads again by a wide margin. The…

Startup Lithuania launched a new startup database, powered by Dealroom. What does “powered by Dealroom” mean, exactly? Your data is maintained daily by Dealroom; this means continuity post launch…