Europe's Scale-Up Gap: Why Startups Can't Scale

Europe has largely solved early-stage funding — seed exists, Series A is increasingly available. So why can't startups scale? This episode with Jörn “Joe” Menninger diagnoses Europe's scale-up gap.

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Why this matters for European startups and scale-ups: Scaling, not starting, is where European startups stall. Naming exactly where the gap opens is the first step to closing it — and it's the core question this feed exists to answer.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why seed and Series A are largely solved in Europe
• Where the scale-up gap actually opens
• What separates European scaling from the US
• The structural causes behind the gap
• What founders and policymakers can do

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