European Startup Pulse™, powered by Startuprad.io, is your quarterly deep dive into Europe’s innovation heartbeat — connecting founders, investors, and policymakers shaping the continent’s startup future. Hosted by Joe Menninger, the show decodes the data, trends, and forces driving the European entrepreneurial landscape.
In collaboration with DEEP Ecosystem, a leading analytics and community platform for European tech, we translate cross-border insights into actionable intelligence. From London to Paris, Stockholm to Amsterdam, and Berlin to Munich, we spotlight the people and ecosystems that define the next generation of European entrepreneurship.
Each episode distills the most relevant startup policy developments, venture capital trends, and innovation metrics. Whether it’s funding patterns, regulatory shifts, or sector deep dives — from AI and fintech to climate tech, biotech, mobility, and frontier research — European Startup Pulse™ gives founders and investors the context they need to act confidently in a fast-evolving market.
The podcast features:
• Quarterly data reports and insights from DEEP Ecosystem analysts
• Conversations with leading European founders and VCs
• Market outlooks for DACH, Nordics, Benelux, Southern Europe, and CEE
• Deep dives into EU funding programs and innovation clusters
• Startup ecosystem rankings and policy impact briefings
Each edition functions as your strategic compass for European innovation — helping you understand where venture capital flows, how new hubs emerge, and why talent mobility and research commercialization are reshaping Europe’s economic future.
European Startup Pulse™ belongs to the Startuprad.io™ Podcast Network, home to Fintech Germany, Blockchain Germany, Deep Tech Germany, Security Startups Germany, and German Startup News. Together, these shows attract over one million annual streams and rank among the global top 0.5 % of podcasts, making Startuprad.io Europe’s leading voice on startups and venture capital.
🔹 Topics we explore: European startup ecosystems, venture capital, funding trends, innovation policy, DACH & EU tech hubs, cross-border entrepreneurship, and the future of Europe’s digital economy.
🔍 Explore more from the Startuprad.io Network:
• Fintech Germany Podcast
• Deep Tech Germany Podcast
• Blockchain Germany Podcast
• German Startup News
• Female Entrepreneurship Podcast
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European Startup Pulse™, powered by Startuprad.io, is your quarterly deep dive into Europe’s innovation heartbeat — connecting founders, investors, and policymakers shaping the continent’s startup future. Hosted by Joe Menninger, the show decodes the data, trends, and forces driving the European entrepreneurial landscape.
In collaboration with DEEP Ecosystem, a leading analytics and community platform for European tech, we translate cross-border insights into actionable intelligence. From London to Paris, Stockholm to Amsterdam, and Berlin to Munich, we spotlight the people and ecosystems that define the next generation of European entrepreneurship.
Each episode distills the most relevant startup policy developments, venture capital trends, and innovation metrics. Whether it’s funding patterns, regulatory shifts, or sector deep dives — from AI and fintech to climate tech, biotech, mobility, and frontier research — European Startup Pulse™ gives founders and investors the context they need to act confidently in a fast-evolving market.
The podcast features:
• Quarterly data reports and insights from DEEP Ecosystem analysts
• Conversations with leading European founders and VCs
• Market outlooks for DACH, Nordics, Benelux, Southern Europe, and CEE
• Deep dives into EU funding programs and innovation clusters
• Startup ecosystem rankings and policy impact briefings
Each edition functions as your strategic compass for European innovation — helping you understand where venture capital flows, how new hubs emerge, and why talent mobility and research commercialization are reshaping Europe’s economic future.
European Startup Pulse™ belongs to the Startuprad.io™ Podcast Network, home to Fintech Germany, Blockchain Germany, Deep Tech Germany, Security Startups Germany, and German Startup News. Together, these shows attract over one million annual streams and rank among the global top 0.5 % of podcasts, making Startuprad.io Europe’s leading voice on startups and venture capital.
🔹 Topics we explore: European startup ecosystems, venture capital, funding trends, innovation policy, DACH & EU tech hubs, cross-border entrepreneurship, and the future of Europe’s digital economy.
🔍 Explore more from the Startuprad.io Network:
• Fintech Germany Podcast
• Deep Tech Germany Podcast
• Blockchain Germany Podcast
• German Startup News
• Female Entrepreneurship Podcast
💌 Subscribe for insider updates: https://startupradio.substack.com/
🌐 Discover all links & platforms: https://linktr.ee/startupradio
📰 Read our blog & show notes: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/
Exclusive Data on Europe’s Startup Hotspots in Q4 2021
European Startup Pulse – The Voice of Europe’s Founders, VCs & Innovation Hubs
33 minutes 31 seconds
3 years ago
Exclusive Data on Europe’s Startup Hotspots in Q4 2021
This is the official kick-off of the cooperation between DEEP Ecosystems and Startuprad.io, originally published on March 10th, 2022.
“The main message is that 2021 was an exceptional year. 2021 saw an 150% growth of startup investments in Europe”Thomas Kösters – Managing Director DEEP Ecosystems
Media Partnership
This is just the kick-off for our cooperation with the DEEP Ecosystem and we will bring you at least four more episodes with them. All data available here and discussed in our episode is only available here with us. Let us know what you would be interested in for the next episodes.
“We detected the uptick in Lisbon early, when we started. We asked ourselves if we are wrong as no one else was talking about Lisbon as a startup hub.”Thomas Kösters – Managing Director DEEP Ecosystems
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“Seed rounds are actually a lagging factor of the success of a startup hub”Thomas Kösters – Managing Director DEEP Ecosystems
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The DEEP Ecosystem
DEEP Ecosystem is a company founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, also the entity behind the https://startupheatmap.eu/. The company is an analytics company focusing on startup hubs in Europe. They are actively tracking more than 100 cities across all of Europe, from Meetups in the respective cities, to the share of female founders and all the accelerators active in the cities and even much more.
The Guest
Thomas Kösters (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-k%C3%B6sters-8602a247/)is our guest today, he is the Managing Director. Before he started with the startup heatmap, he was working for companies like Siemens, Microsoft, and EIT Digital.
The Report – Exclusively for our Listeners and Viewers
The data we are sharing here is nowhere else legally accessible. We are sharing here exclusively an excerpt of the Q4 Startup City Signals report, with more than 10 pages of exclusive data.
You can find all data here (hint: it is interactive when you hover with your cursor over it).
https://infogram.com/1pe2qp17963ej1bm75jlwzk23nhl1ky39zw?live
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European Startup Pulse – The Voice of Europe’s Founders, VCs & Innovation Hubs
European Startup Pulse™, powered by Startuprad.io, is your quarterly deep dive into Europe’s innovation heartbeat — connecting founders, investors, and policymakers shaping the continent’s startup future. Hosted by Joe Menninger, the show decodes the data, trends, and forces driving the European entrepreneurial landscape.
In collaboration with DEEP Ecosystem, a leading analytics and community platform for European tech, we translate cross-border insights into actionable intelligence. From London to Paris, Stockholm to Amsterdam, and Berlin to Munich, we spotlight the people and ecosystems that define the next generation of European entrepreneurship.
Each episode distills the most relevant startup policy developments, venture capital trends, and innovation metrics. Whether it’s funding patterns, regulatory shifts, or sector deep dives — from AI and fintech to climate tech, biotech, mobility, and frontier research — European Startup Pulse™ gives founders and investors the context they need to act confidently in a fast-evolving market.
The podcast features:
• Quarterly data reports and insights from DEEP Ecosystem analysts
• Conversations with leading European founders and VCs
• Market outlooks for DACH, Nordics, Benelux, Southern Europe, and CEE
• Deep dives into EU funding programs and innovation clusters
• Startup ecosystem rankings and policy impact briefings
Each edition functions as your strategic compass for European innovation — helping you understand where venture capital flows, how new hubs emerge, and why talent mobility and research commercialization are reshaping Europe’s economic future.
European Startup Pulse™ belongs to the Startuprad.io™ Podcast Network, home to Fintech Germany, Blockchain Germany, Deep Tech Germany, Security Startups Germany, and German Startup News. Together, these shows attract over one million annual streams and rank among the global top 0.5 % of podcasts, making Startuprad.io Europe’s leading voice on startups and venture capital.
🔹 Topics we explore: European startup ecosystems, venture capital, funding trends, innovation policy, DACH & EU tech hubs, cross-border entrepreneurship, and the future of Europe’s digital economy.
🔍 Explore more from the Startuprad.io Network:
• Fintech Germany Podcast
• Deep Tech Germany Podcast
• Blockchain Germany Podcast
• German Startup News
• Female Entrepreneurship Podcast
💌 Subscribe for insider updates: https://startupradio.substack.com/
🌐 Discover all links & platforms: https://linktr.ee/startupradio
📰 Read our blog & show notes: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/
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