It’s a widely held belief that the European venture capital scene is poor relation to the US. Given how important such finance is to the continent’s technology startups, this has long been a sore point. However, a new report (embedded below) from German VC firm Earlybird states that the opposite is now true.
The report argues that European venture capital has reached an “inflection point” and that it now offers better real performance than the US for the first time. The report argues that the past two years has seen $15bn in venture capital liquidity in Europe – half the figure for the US over that period, but based on only one fifth of the funding.
Earlybird’s report goes on to state that proportionally, Europe is producing higher exit multiples than the US, due to an overproportional share of successful exits in Europe.
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