'EVCA' Tag

  • Europe’s leading VC countries, part två

    August 27, 2013

    Last month I superimposed the data for VC investment in 2012 onto a map of Europe (see here). The feedback was overwhelming, and some excellent suggestions arose along the lines of indexing the investment to each country’s respective size. In absolute terms, out of the total 3.5 B€ invested by VCs in Europe in 2012, […]

  • Europe’s leading countries for VC

    July 9, 2013

    Inspired by Richard Florida’s piece in The Atlantic Cities, America’s Leading Metros for Venture Capital, I decided to craft a comparable bubble chart for Europe’s VC activity in 2012. The European version of the map illustrates VC investment in all major European countries (excluding Russia and Turkey), with the amounts converted into US$ and indexed […]