Europe's Megafund Problem and the Capital Architecture Gap

Europe doesn't lack venture capital. It lacks the architecture to move it from innovation to scale. Inside the institutional mechanism behind the European scale-up gap — fund-size math, the Series B cliff, KfW Venture Capital Barometer data, and why the Capital Markets Union is the keystone reform everything else depends on. The third episode of The European Scale-Up Question, Startuprad.io's flagship 8-part analytical series on why Europe builds great companies but loses them at scale. READ THE COMPANION BLOG POST https://www.startuprad.io/post/capital-architecture-europe-venture-finance-scale-up-gap PRIOR EPISODES IN THE SERIES • E1 — European Scale-Up Gap: Why Startups Don't Become Tech Giants — https://www.startuprad.io/post/european-scale-up-gap-why-startups-dont-become-tech-giants • E2 — Fragmentation: Europe's Hidden Growth Tax — https://www.startuprad.io/post/fragmentation-europes-hidden-growth-tax Enjoy the show? 📖 Blog recap: https://www.startuprad.io/post/demand-without-deployment-europe-startup-procurement-scaling-gap Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JfSDMR4-l7U 🎧 The Audio Podcast Subscribe here: https://youtu.be/-w0OWbMVLHI 🚪 Connect with Us Partner with us: partnerships@startuprad.io Subscribe: https://linktr.ee/startupradio Feedback: https://forms.gle/SrcGUpycu26fvMFE9 Follow Joe on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/comm/mynetwork/discovery-see-all?usecase=PEOPLE_FOLLOWS&followMember=joernmenninger © Startuprad.io® Folge direkt herunterladen --- Startuprad.io™ - All Rights Reserved | AI & research reference → https://www.startuprad.io/llm