The State of European Tech 2017

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It's been a busy year for European tech

Europe has a strong sense of optimism about the future of its tech ecosystem

Europe's tech ecosystem is feeling the impact - positive and negative - of macro events

Europe is entering a new age of entrepreneurship where technology is used to address the world's biggest societal challenges

European tech continues to diversify geographically, driving cross-border investment activity

The perception and the reality around gender diversity in European tech are not aligned

Europe's tech ecosystem is fed by a strong pipeline of world-class talent

Europe’s tech workforce and developer population is booming

The presence of tech giants in Europe is changing the dynamics of the region's talent pool

The UK is Europe's dominant destination for migratory tech talent

The UK is the number one source of outbound tech talent moving within Europe's tech industry

Portrait of a European founder

Europe's growing and highly-engaged tech communities

As tech eats Europe, every city is becoming a tech city

Despite burgeoning local ecosystems, founders continue to move between countries to start-up

Another record year for European tech investment

A deep dive into European tech

The strength of Europe’s tech ecosystem is attractive to a diverse set of investors

2017 has seen another strong year of fundraising for European VCs

There is still work to be done to further diversify the institutional investor base of European VC

European deep tech continues to attract large investment

AI & crypto are seen as major opportunities for European tech leadership on the global stage

Europe is home to the world's leading AI research community

Europe is well-positioned to play a key role in crypto space

Europe leads the race to tokenize assets and the ICO fundraising boom

The perception in Europe's tech industry is that startups need to forge closer ties with traditional industry

Europe's corporates are battling to defend trillions of dollars of enterprise value

Spotting patterns in the flow of talent between tech & traditional industry

Europe’s traditional incumbents are cash-rich and hungry

Regulation is viewed as a barrier to scaling European tech

Regulation is an opportunity for competitive advantage at all levels

Europe’s billion-dollar success stories

Europe is on track for another $75B+ of M&A exit value in 2017

European tech has delivered another strong year of IPOs

Myth #1: European venture does not deliver returns

Myth #2: European VCs don't cross borders

Myth #3: Europe's public market investors don't get tech

Predictions for European tech in 2018 from report author, Tom Wehmeier

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