Digital Venice - July 8th, 2014 Workshop: Startup Europe! Startup Europe Partnership by Alberto Onetti

1. Workshop: “Startup Europe!”

2. Scaling European Startups

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. Stakeholders
Founding Partners:
Recently Joined:
And more…

8. Join/Follow Us
www.startupeuropepartnership.eu
@sep_eu
@aonetti