Hi there. Vibecoding was just named Collins Dictionary word of the year. So one for the vibers, you might like Vibe Kanban from Bloop. 

🦄 Where the world’s best entrepreneurs come from

Israel has produced more unicorn founders per capita than any other country, with over 30× the global average. This new analysis looks at the origin of founders, looking beyond company HQ. 

After Israel comes a remarkable Nordic/Northern European Arc, of Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Ireland. With Finland and Norway also high up.

Some examples:

🇮🇱 Israel — Avi Meir (Perk), Yonatan Stern (ZoomInfo), Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Uri Levine (Waze), Matan Bar (Melio)
🇮🇪 Ireland — Patrick Collison & John Collison (Stripe)
🇮🇸 Iceland —David Helgason (Unity), Hilmar Veigar Pétursson (CCP Games), Jon von Tetzchner (Opera, Vivaldi)
🇸🇪 Sweden — Daniel Ek & Martin Lorentzon (Spotify), Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth (Klarna), Niklas Zennström (Atomico, Skype
🇩🇰 Denmark — Jeppe Rindom (Pleo), Peter Holten Muhlmann (Trustpilot)
🇪🇪 Estonia — Taavet Hinrikus & Kristo Käärmann (Wise), Markus Villig (Bolt)
🇺🇸 The US is also high up for producing unicorn founder (and this is per capita!). The difference is it's also been the top destination for international founders from the rest of the world.

Related ^, you can now discover companies based on the country their founders studied in. E.g. >800 startups founded since 2022, by founders who studied in Switzerland. 

Upcoming Briefings: Defence, Spinouts & UK tech

We run regular live video briefings on different topics in tech. With exclusive data on the latest trends, market movements, how to discover promising companies and live Q&A. Make sure to sign up to the upcoming sessions. 

• 11 Nov - Defence Briefing
• 27 Nov - Spinouts Briefing
• 9 Dec - UK Tech Briefing
• 17 Dec - Building Tech Ecosystems

And watch back recent eps on Longevity, Climate Resilience, Deep Tech and more. 

Slush is nearly here ❄️ 

We'll be at Slush once again, and here's your essential agenda 👇 Our deep tech event keeps selling out, but we're now in the biggest room they have, so once they're gone they're gone! 

Day 0, Nov 18

Investor Day - come say hi at the cafe area. Look for the Dealroom logo. 

NinjaNight - featuring launch of Japan-Europe: a rising tech alliance report, from Dealroom x Nordic Ninja. 

Day 1, Nov 19

✨ The State of European Deep Tech 2026 ✨ - 8-9.30am

Back by (very) popular demand. The fifth annual state of the industry report, from Dealroom, Lakestar &. Walden Catalyst.  The most oversubscribed side event of the last two years. It's basically sold out already, grab your seat while you still can!

The State of European Tech  - Founders Stage - 10:37 - 10:52 

Atomico's annual landmark report will drop. Proud to help power this with data as always 🙏

Day 2, Nov 20

Science to Scale - 2-4pm 
Researchers & spinouts track, incl. the official launch of the first ever European Spinouts Report, from Dealroom in collab with Atlantic Labs, MITO Technology, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Oxford Science Enterprises and Northern Gritstone 💥

And a fun pre-read for the flight ICYMI: How 15% of Slush staff alumni go on to found startups - New report from Slush x Accel x Dealroom ❤️

Also

♻️ The State of Impact 2025 - report with Impact City & Microsoft Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact.

🧮 Global Tech Ecosystem Index – Sector Edition 2025 Report & dashboard.

🇨🇦 Welcoming Manitoba into the fold! The Canadian Province joins the network of over 120 innovation ecosystems using Dealroom to measure and showcase their growth economy.  

👩‍⚖️ AI & Policy Summit: Scaling AI in Europe - Amsterdam 11 Dec at (the new) AI House.

🎓 Applications are open fro Newton Fundamentals, an 8-week virtual course to build essential venture capital knowledge. Plus there's a pre-application Q&A.

🛡️ Accelerating technologies into defence with QinetiQ, by Janus Allies. 12 Nov. 

🗞️ Investors confront top of European defence start-up ‘hype cycle’ - FT, with Dealroom data. 

🗞️ Global VC investments in impact startups fall to lowest level since 2017 - Pioneer Post, with Dealroom data. 

🗞️ Vilnius is a nice, green place to live—and it’s turning that into a competitive advantage for its economy - Fortune, with Dealroom data.