Wavestone conducted a global survey, answered by more than 100 investors throughout Europe, the United States and across the globe, to investigate the deep tech landscape.
We found startling evidence to support our thesis that Europe is leading the pack. These findings were backed by extensive primary and secondary data from interviews conducted by Wavestone with entrepreneurs, organisations and research labs.
The UK is still the largest investment and financing market, with £1.45 billion estimated to have been invested in 2017 alone
Deep tech is disrupting traditional investment strategy, dwarfing other technologies in terms of the size and growth of investments from venture capital. At the same time, talent pools, scientific infrastructure and public support are evermore influential in investment decisions, where access to finance was previously the leading indicator.
The UK is still the largest investment and financing market, with £1.45 billion estimated to have been invested in 2017 alone, contributing vastly to Europe’s global, leading position.
Despite numerous indicators showing the UK’s pre-eminence in the European startup ecosystem – amount of funds raised, amount of funds invested including in 2017, number of startups – our study’s findings mirror those recently published by Atomico that “confidence levels in the UK are materially lower”.
Uncertainty associated with Brexit is obviously having an impact as preparations are made for a different and unknown business and regulatory environment.
Please visit our website to see the survey’s key findings and read the report in full:
https://uk.wavestone.com/en/insight/deep-tech-global-investor-survey-2017/
