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Global venture capital is crushing all records
Global VC investment is up 2.3x year-on-year growth, with more than €264B invested globally in 2021, and Europe is the fastest growing region for VC investment.
2021 has also seen an explosion of billion-dollar companies, with more than two unicorns created every day so far this year. There are now 170 cities around the world home to at least one unicorn, 65 of which are in Europe.
As the global value of tech companies has ballooned to over $35 trillion, we've dived into a watershed H1, and the startup cities of the entrepreneurial age.
Set in one of Europe’s most important economic and industrial centres, Cologne is building a new reputation.
With the third highest startup density in Germany after Berlin and Munich, and a tech ecosystem that has doubled in value in the last five years, Cologne is diversifying. We’ve explored the startup and venture capital ecosystem, in partnership with KölnBusiness.
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