What are the advantages of US versus European VCs?
Summary
Recently, a wave of US venture capital investors entered the European startup ecosystem flooding it with money. The pandemic enabled global access to investors, as everything went virtual anyway, and therefore it didn’t matter anymore whether you have a Zoom Call with New York or Berlin. As a startup active in the software sector, it certainly pays off to secure access to this large market – especially as most of the B2B companies think global right away. High valuations by global investors are certainly attractive for founders, although they don’t necessarily translate into the public market, as recent IPOs have showed. The high speed at which European venture capital funds are internationalizing is resulting in an increasing alignment of the two markets.
