Empowering Europe's Competitiveness
summary
European startups see clear metrics improving — deals, funding, M&A and exits rise — but scaling stalls at Series B/C funding gap, and Europe loses winners to US/China. Corporate venturing works: Siemens builds Next47 corporate VC, invests, spins out companies, and can acquire to provide exits; Siemens reports 360,000 employees and €80bn revenue to deploy. Talent shortage centers on experienced sales/scale executives rather than engineers. A media-for-equity program produces roughly a €300–400M exit, showing corporate partnerships can close the growth loop.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:33Financing Ecosystem
- 8:23Siemens
- 10:43Media for Equity
- 13:31Culture of Innovation
- 15:32Investment vs Revenue
- 17:19Ecosystem
- 19:29Entrepreneurial spirit
- 22:30Engineering in Europe
- 24:09Entrepreneurship in Europe
- 27:16European Startups
- 29:40Attitude to Entrepreneurship
- 30:44Entrepreneurial Experience
- 31:37Talent
- 33:00Not the political
- 34:00Strategic thinking
- 35:41A big risk
- 36:41Why Next 47
