Emerging Europe
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Claim: platform technologies now arrive every two years not every decade, enabled by cloud computing and cheap data and by coding bootcamps and no‑code tools that collapse skill barriers. Evidence: 56 million developers on GitHub versus 1.9 million R&D staff, three unicorn cities in 2011 versus 40 in 2020, Earlybird fund allocations dropping from 75% to 56% in hubs, hubs get 52% of capital but only 15% of developers. Notable outcomes: UiPath $35 billion exit and a largest Series A coming from Heidelberg.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:11Innovation drives further innovation leading to an 2- unprecedented acceleration of speed and scalability
- 2:46Entry barriers are facing away, innovation infrastructure is available to everyone
- 4:52Creative minds become the new bottleneck driving the 2- democratization of innovation
- 6:21Increasing geographic diversification of venture funding
- 7:45The share of new VC deals in main tech hubs is
- 8:36but an enormous funding misbalance between main - hubs and other regions remains
- 9:16More deep tech entrepreneurs outside of main hubs...
- 11:11but significantly higher valuations in main hubs
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