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🚨🌎 NEW REPORT: The Global Tech Ecosystem Index is live. We benchmarked 288 tech ecosystems across 69 countries — measuring investment, innovation, talent, and outcomes. Here’s what we found 👇🧵

🇪🇺🚀 REPORT: Accelerating Europe Is the situation in Europe as bad as people are saying? What does it need to do to reach its potential? Europe's tech future is an important conversation. But it’s vital to cut through the noise. 🧵👇

The top ✨value-add✨ VCs Getting backed by the right investor at seed makes your startup 4.5x more likely to raise Series A. Value-add unpacked, in data. 👏👏👏 cc @VCBrags ;)

The 6th annual ranking of VC Investors in EMEA is here - the final cut. The only fully stage-weighted, quantitative, transparent ranking of over 10k investors active in EMEA. Introducing the top category winners 🥁 1/

The only quantitative ranking of over 11k venture investors around the world. 😤

💥🇬🇧 Introducing the new home of UK tech industry intelligence - The Data Commons. Real-time data, open access for all. A first-of-its-kind national database for the UK’s tech startup industry, powered by Dealroom & @HSBCInnovation uk.dealroom.co

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In light of what's been happening, a roundup of some key stats on UK tech. 🧵 @SVB_UK has 3,300 clients (via @FT). There are 6,369 active UK startups with min $500K funding. • UK startups employ 1.8M people • The UK startup ecosystem is collectively worth almost $1T

@yoramdw @neilshahuk @modic123 @SGuemouri @twehmeier @dealroomco Of those, Skype leads for producing founders that have gone on to raise $10M+, with 17 (including Wise ofc) app.dealroom.co/companies.star…

@neilshahuk @modic123 @SGuemouri @twehmeier @smorla from @dealroomco can find out

Which UK unicorns are exceptional talent "hotbeds" and are consistently "creating" new founders / start-ups? @yoramdw - wonder if you have seen some quantitative analysis around this? infogram.com/list-of-uk-uni…

1/ European tech x #Eurovision Political, diverse, better every year, and weirdly compelling. What do Eurovision entries and tech ecosystems have in common? A (reductive) thread 🧵👇

We’re excited to announce a major milestone! Dealroom has raised a €6M Series A led by @Beringea, with @Knight_VC & Shoe Investments. Join us as we double down on our product & data roadmap, and accelerate global expansion - we are very much hiring! 💼 dealroom.co/blog/dealroom-…

UK tech just hit a big milestone. Welcome to the Unicorn Club @tractable_ai - number 100.🎉💯 Check out the full list here. app.dealroom.co/unicorns/f/slu…

With help from @smorla I finally published something long overdue: "What is a startup?" Featuring @paulg @chrija @jasonlk @daveg blog.dealroom.co/what-is-a-star…

💰 The VC Prominence Rank 2021 is here! We're excited to unveil the 4th annual ranking of thousands of Venture Capital investors. app.dealroom.co/prominence-rank

Together with @Siftedeu, we're hosting top VCs, ecosystem builders, and tech industry leaders to discuss building tech ecosystems in a distributed world.💥 Join us today starting at 16:00 CET. 🎟️ hopin.com/events/buildin…

Those startups that come out of academic institutions are called... (A list of UK ones for reference app.dealroom.co/lists/13883?sh…) cc. @cape @TechNation @nathanbenaich @twehmeier

@daveg The water is key, scarce and expensive to pump/contain. Cheaper alternatives of transforming coastal land lead to monocultures, threatening food security, where insects could potentially be part of sustainable agricultural diversity 🤞 theguardian.com/global-develop…

Is it much easier to grow insects than, say, shrimp, because they seem to be pretty much the same except one's a much harder sell?

Closing the diversity data gap – we need your help. Whether you’re a founder, VC, corporate exec or work in a startup, contribute to creating the most robust dataset on ethnicity in tech. Find out more 👩‍💻👩🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻👩🏽‍💻👩🏾‍💻👩🏿‍💻 blog.dealroom.co/closing-the-di…

It's holiday season, & according to @bookingcom over half of global travellers are more motivated to make sustainable travel choices than they were a year ago. From carbon offsetting to food waste, understand the #startup landscape of #sustainabletourism app.dealroom.co/lists/16402