Research report: Realtech - (Re)building Europe's critical industries
In-depth report co-authored with Dealroom
Overview
Alongside Dealroom, we have compiled 40+ pages of in-depth analysis on trends in Industrial Tech. We analysed 15k companies, 11k investors over 10 years - to bring you what matters.
Why? We must rebuild our most critical industries. With an increasingly complex geopolitical backdrop and shifting sands in the venture landscape, we thought it timely to add data to this story.
The report zooms out and zooms in, looking at the high-level trend of technology embedding in our physical world and drilling down to understand the core constituents driving this change—academia, talent, companies, and funding.
Some highlights:
There are 15,000 VC-backed physical industries startups, with 66 valued at >$1bn+
The combined value of startups in our dataset totals $618bn, up over 10x since 2014
Europe has 4 of the 5 countries with the highest manufacturing outputs on a per capita basis
Energy is the dominant sub-sector in Europe industrial tech funding;
it’s 41% of all Industrial Tech funding
it beat out Fintech in 2024 as the most funded sector, with $5.7bn of deal volume
European energy consists of 33% of global funding in the sector, the highest of any sub-sector in the study
The UK consists of 29% of Industrial Tech funding, followed by Germany, then France
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