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A recent study by Stripe and Tech.eu showed that early stage and later stage investments quadrupled between 2016 and 2019. The sums invested in start-ups in the growth phase have doubled compared to 2016. Start-ups from Germany, France and the United Kingdom recorded the highest investment sums, with capital increasingly coming from non-European countries. While investors invest large sums in German companies on the start-up scene, German investors tend to shy away from using so-called venture capital.
As far as early-stage investments in Europe are concerned, the total has risen from 875 million euros to 3.6 billion euros between the first half of 2015 and the first half of the following year. In 2017, up to 36 percent more capital (19 billion euros in total) was invested in European early-stage start-ups. Looking at the last three years, the United Kingdom (24.59 percent) and France (24.04 percent) are the leaders in early-stage investments. Germany is in second place with almost 12.65 percent, but ahead of Italy (1.92 percent) and Spain (2.9 percent).
Total investments in growth stage start-ups in France and Germany have increased by 27 and 26 percent respectively between 2017 and 2018. Great Britain continues to lead the way with 8.82 billion euros. The most attractive sectors for early-stage and growth-stage start-ups are currently Fintech, Medtech, Software as Service (SaaS), Analytics and Mobility/Transportation.
Among the later-stage start-ups, 2019 was a particularly high investment year. Germany and the United Kingdom are among the leading investors: between 2015 and the third quarter of 2019, both countries invested a total of almost EUR 15.3 billion. This is more than in all other countries combined in the same period. The later-stage start-ups based in Germany and the UK also continue to lead the field by a wide margin. They are followed by Israel, Sweden and France. Between 2017 and 2018, Belgium has seen the biggest increase of just under +43 percent, while Spain has seen the biggest decline with -27.68 percent.
If this trend continues, there could be 70 financing rounds of over 100 billion euros in 2019. In the first three quarters of 2019, 52 transactions were recorded, including companies from all over Europe such as Klarna (Sweden), Glovo (Spain) and Deliveroo (UK). In addition, late stage investments have tripled in total between 2016 and the third quarter of 2019. The most popular industries for late-start-ups are diverse thanks to leading companies such as Spotify (Sweden), Delivery Hero (Germany) and Roivant (Switzerland).

Source: www.healthcare-startups.de