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Regardless of the tech downturn, Europe’s founder ecosystem continues to thrive with an unprecedented surge of recent entrepreneurs getting into the market.
These findings have been revealed in “Europe’s New Tech Founders 2023,” a complete report revealed by Antler, the world’s main day zero investor and Europe’s most lively early-stage enterprise capitalist.
The report was launched at Antler’s first European Founder Convention at Mansion Home in London.
In line with Antler, the report analyses the tutorial historical past, skilled experience, and demographics of 845 unicorn founders, 2,500 founders collaborating in Antler residencies, and over 70,000 aspiring founders in Europe who’ve utilized to Antler (22,000 of which reside within the Netherlands), making it the biggest research of European know-how founders in historical past.
Right here’re a number of key takeaways:
New founders pushed by tech layoffs
The inflow of recent founder expertise is pushed by tech layoffs and redundancies. For the primary time, Antler’s analysis reveals a direct correlation between layoffs and new tech founders.
Within the 12 months after a tech firm introduced layoffs, Antler has recognized a 391 per cent enhance in functions from staff trying to turn into aspiring tech founders.
9 out of the highest 10 tech corporations producing aspiring founders in Europe have made layoffs within the final three years, reveals the report.
In 2022, the variety of staff leaving tech corporations that made layoffs to turn into tech founders elevated by 111 per cent.
Since 2021, the variety of aspiring founders from Huge Tech (+21 per cent) and huge startups (+27 per cent) has grown considerably.
Reserving.com, Spotify, and Klarna are the biggest startups producing probably the most founders in Europe. Microsoft, Google, and IBM are the Huge Tech corporations producing probably the most entrepreneurs.
Within the Netherlands, aspiring tech founders trying to create tech startups within the Netherlands over the past three years are 216 per cent extra prone to be ladies than Dutch unicorn founders, discloses the report.
Unicorn founders
The report factors out the dearth of variety amongst Europe’s unicorn founders.
A typical unicorn founder is a person (96 per cent male) constructing a tech firm of their dwelling nation, highlights the report.
A 3rd of Europe’s unicorn founders went to the identical 20 universities, that means a unicorn founder is extra prone to be an Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge) graduate (35) than a lady (32).
Dutch unicorn founders are most definitely to have studied on the College of Amsterdam, Technical College of Delft or the College of Groningen.
Triodor Software program, Optiver and GSK are the businesses that Dutch unicorn founders mostly labored at earlier than turning into tech founders.
6 per cent of Dutch unicorn founders are ladies, whereas 30 per cent got here from abroad to arrange the businesses that achieved billion-dollar valuations within the Netherlands.
Europe’s new tech founders are extra various
Analysis reveals that this new era of founders is extra various.
New tech founders are 5x extra prone to be ladies and symbolize 3x extra nationalities than Europe’s unicorn founders.
The report additionally sheds gentle on a number of variety and inclusion statistics:
There’s a 300 per cent enhance within the variety of nationalities represented by Europe’s new tech founders in comparison with Europe’s unicorn foundersThere is a 525 per cent enhance in gender variety of Europe’s new tech founders in comparison with Europe’s unicorn founders51 per cent of Europe’s new tech founders are keen to maneuver nation to create their startup
Within the Netherlands particularly, aspiring tech founders trying to create tech startups within the Netherlands over the past three years are 216 per cent extra prone to be ladies than Dutch unicorn founders, says the report.
Founder engine rooms
No matter geography, a 3rd of unicorn founders went to the identical 20 universities.
Consulting corporations and corporates dominate the listing of employers producing unicorn founders, signifies the report.
Trying on the backgrounds of tech founders who’ve secured funding from Antler within the Netherlands, Maastricht College, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the College of Groningen produce graduates with the very best likelihood of receiving funding.
And based mostly on the 22,000 aspiring founders who’ve utilized to Antler within the Netherlands, former employers of McKinsey, EY, ING and Reserving.com are most definitely to safe funding for his or her tech startups, discloses the report.
Employers producing unicorn founders within the Netherlands:
Triodor SoftwareOptiverGSK Bibit International Funds Companies Mollie
Employers producing new tech founders within the Netherlands
McKinsey EY ING Reserving.com ABN AMRO Financial institution
Tutorial establishments producing unicorn founders within the Netherlands
College of Amsterdam Technical College of Delft College of Groningen College of Twente College of Expertise Eindhoven
Tutorial establishments producing new tech founders within the Netherlands
Maastricht College Vrije College of Amsterdam College of Groningen Technical College of Delft INSEAD
Christoph Klink, Accomplice at Antler, says, “‘This knowledge brings to life what we expertise daily working with founders from day zero of their journey. Within the final 12 months alone, we’ve invested in feminine rocket scientists sending satellites into area, moms constructing a household similtaneously a proptech enterprise, engineers who’ve discovered a solution to extract carbon dioxide from the ambiance and fintech specialists protecting small companies afloat throughout the financial downturn.”
“Their backgrounds are totally different, however what unites them is the conviction that know-how could make the world a greater place. After I think about the founders I spend time with daily, I don’t suppose there’s ever been a extra thrilling time within the European tech ecosystem,” provides Klink.
