Hi there. In Jan we called 2021 "the year of Deep Tech", in a report with a full page on German vaccine innovator BioNTech. We still think it's a great read but that page is already a little dated; BioNTech are now valued at $88B, 4x vs. January. 🤯
Unicorn Europe
For the first time since 2016, Europe has overtaken China by the cumulative number of unicorns and $1B+ exits created: Europe is at 297 vs. China 276. That's after 73 new unicorns have come out of Europe vs. 22 in China in 2021.
Within Europe, the biggest producers so far this year are:
UK 20
Germany 14
France 10
Sweden 4
Extending to EMEA, Israel has 15 new unicorns. Africa has 2.
Meanwhile, the US continues to storm ahead. 279 new unicorns have been created this year in the US. It has created nearly 1,000 unicorns and $1B+ exits since 1990. That's quite a chunk of the total created in the first 8 months of 2021 alone!
Globally 444 new unicorns have been created this year so far, ~two per day 🦄🦄.
Unicorns are of course a big employer (in fact there are currently (70,596 job vacancies at unicorns globally), but the job engine of startups runs deep. There are currently over 1.2M startup vacancies aggregated on Dealroom at startups of all sizes.
Filter by startup sector, impact focus, funding levels, team size, valuation, location, job function and more, e.g. there are:
531 jobs at German fintechs with at least €100M funding
🏦 Applications are open for Accelpoint's European Fintech Hackcelerator as part of the Singapore Fintech Festival, with prizes available totally S$250,000.
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