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Orla Browne retweeted
21 May 2025
🚨🌎 NEW REPORT: The Global Tech Ecosystem Index is live.
We benchmarked 288 tech ecosystems across 69 countries — measuring investment, innovation, talent, and outcomes.
Here’s what we found 👇🧵
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Orla Browne retweeted
27 Feb 2025
🇪🇺🚀 REPORT: Accelerating Europe
Is the situation in Europe as bad as people are saying?
What does it need to do to reach its potential?
Europe's tech future is an important conversation.
But it’s vital to cut through the noise.
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ALT Chart titled "Since 2008, an $11 trillion nominal GDP gap emerged", with a red stamp on it reading "Unpacked". Chart from the Accerating Europe report by Dealroom and Dealflow
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20 Feb 2025
The top ✨value-add✨ VCs
Getting backed by the right investor at seed makes your startup 4.5x more likely to raise Series A. Value-add unpacked, in data.
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cc @VCBrags ;)
20 Feb 2025
Backing from a top investor means a seed stage startup is 4.5x more likely to advance to Series A.
But what makes a top quality investor?
We’ve collected the data to pinpoint these investors, and what makes them stand out.
dealroom.co/reports/explorin…
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Orla Browne retweeted
24 Nov 2023
The 6th annual ranking of VC Investors in EMEA is here - the final cut.
The only fully stage-weighted, quantitative, transparent ranking of over 10k investors active in EMEA.
Introducing the top category winners 🥁 1/
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6 Oct 2023
The only quantitative ranking of over 11k venture investors around the world. 😤
6 Oct 2023
💰 The VC Investor Rank 2023 is here!
The only quantitative, transparent ranking of the world’s top venture capital investors. We're excited to unveil the 2023 list, supported by @HSBCInnovation
dealroom.co/guides/vc-invest…
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Orla Browne retweeted
26 Sep 2023
💥🇬🇧 Introducing the new home of UK tech industry intelligence - The Data Commons.
Real-time data, open access for all. A first-of-its-kind national database for the UK’s tech startup industry, powered by Dealroom & @HSBCInnovation
uk.dealroom.co
ALT The UK tech and innovation database, powered by Dealroom and HSBC Innovation Banking
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Orla Browne retweeted
13 Sep 2023
European companies going public right now like
Germany's luxury footwear maker Birkenstock files for U.S. IPO reut.rs/45MnE8N
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Orla Browne retweeted
12 Mar 2023
In light of what's been happening, a roundup of some key stats on UK tech. 🧵
@SVB_UK has 3,300 clients (via @FT). There are 6,369 active UK startups with min $500K funding.
• UK startups employ 1.8M people
• The UK startup ecosystem is collectively worth almost $1T
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Orla Browne retweeted
13 May 2022
1/ European tech x #Eurovision
Political, diverse, better every year, and weirdly compelling.
What do Eurovision entries and tech ecosystems have in common? A (reductive) thread 🧵👇
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Orla Browne retweeted
22 Dec 2021
We’re excited to announce a major milestone!
Dealroom has raised a €6M Series A led by @Beringea, with @Knight_VC & Shoe Investments.
Join us as we double down on our product & data roadmap, and accelerate global expansion - we are very much hiring! 💼
dealroom.co/blog/dealroom-ra…
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Orla Browne retweeted
17 Jun 2021
UK tech just hit a big milestone.
Welcome to the Unicorn Club @tractable_ai - number 100.🎉💯
Check out the full list here.
app.dealroom.co/unicorns/f/s…
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Orla Browne retweeted
10 Mar 2021
💰 The VC Prominence Rank 2021 is here!
We're excited to unveil the 4th annual ranking of thousands of Venture Capital investors.
app.dealroom.co/prominence-r…
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Orla Browne retweeted
24 Feb 2021
Together with @Siftedeu, we're hosting top VCs, ecosystem builders, and tech industry leaders to discuss building tech ecosystems in a distributed world.💥
Join us today starting at 16:00 CET.
🎟️ hopin.com/events/building-ec…
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Orla Browne retweeted
7 Jan 2021
Those startups that come out of academic institutions are called...
(A list of UK ones for reference app.dealroom.co/lists/13883?…)
cc. @cape @TechNation @nathanbenaich @twehmeier
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University spinouts
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University spin-offs
30 votes • Final results
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Orla Browne retweeted
2 Sep 2020
Closing the diversity data gap – we need your help.
Whether you’re a founder, VC, corporate exec or work in a startup, contribute to creating the most robust dataset on ethnicity in tech.
Find out more 👩💻👩🏻💻👩🏼💻👩🏽💻👩🏾💻👩🏿💻
blog.dealroom.co/closing-the…
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6 Aug 2020
It's holiday season, & according to @bookingcom over half of global travellers are more motivated to make sustainable travel choices than they were a year ago.
From carbon offsetting to food waste, understand the #startup landscape of #sustainabletourism
app.dealroom.co/lists/16402
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Orla Browne retweeted
10 Jun 2020
"Silicon Roundabout" was coined as a joke about a tiny tech cluster during another financial crisis.
12 years on, London is home to 15,218 startups & scaleups, with combined funding of $4B in 2020.
Read the full #LondonTechWeek report, w/ @TechNation blog.dealroom.co/uk-tech-upd…
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"Silicon Roundabout": the ever-growing community of fun startups in London's Old Street area
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Orla Browne retweeted
22 May 2020
Which VCs really are still open for business?
We looked at the most active European VCs since the start of the Coronavirus crisis.
Inc. @speedinvest @HTGF @Accel @localglobevc @MavenCap @IndexVentures @Global_Founders @HVVentures @idinvest
blog.dealroom.co/which-vcs-r…
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Orla Browne retweeted
22 Apr 2020
We're excited to announce the launch of European Startups, in partnership with @siftedeu!
Backed by the @EU_Commission @StartUpEU, this 2-year initiative will give macro-level insight into Europe’s tech ecosystems and help inform EU funding 💰
Sign up: hubs.ly/H0pL6qB0
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