14.1 Our Data Partners EIF The European Investment Fund (EIF) is capital, guarantees and microfinance part of the European Investment Bank instruments, which specifically target group. Its central mission is to support this market segment. In this role, EIF Europe’s micro, small and medium- fosters EU objectives in support of sized businesses (SMEs) by helping innovation, research and development, them to access finance. EIF designs entrepreneurship, growth, and and develops venture and growth employment. European Startup Initiative The European Startup initiative startup hubs. The 2018 survey was behind the Heatmap is a non-profit collected between April and August organization enabling founders and 2018 and had 1,500 participants. After tech talent to navigate European cleaning and sampling the data, 984 startup hubs and support community complete datasets remained that builders to connect their ecosystems. were weighted to adjust for regional representativeness on country level. http://www.startupheatmap.com Founders were 57.52% of respondents. For long-term trends in founder The Startup Heatmap Europe is mobility, we used a combined dataset an annual survey among founders of 3 years with 1,661 distinct founder and the greater tech community on dataset mobility and the attractiveness of Indeed More people find jobs on Indeed than people each month search for jobs, anywhere else. Indeed is the #1 job post CVs, and research companies on site in the world and allows jobseekers Indeed, and Indeed is the #1 source to search millions of jobs on the web of external hires for thousands of or mobile in over 60 countries and companies (sources: SilkRoad & iCIMS). 28 languages. More than 200 million For more information, visit indeed.com. Invest Europe Invest Europe is the association in Europe. We provide information representing Europe’s private equity, to the public on our members’ role in venture capital and infrastructure the economy. Our research provides sectors, as well as their investors. the most authoritative source of data on trends and developments in our Our members take a long-term industry. approach to investing in privately held companies, from start-ups to Invest Europe is the guardian of the established firms. They inject not only industry’s professional standards, capital but dynamism, innovation and demanding accountability, good expertise. This commitment helps governance and transparency from our deliver strong and sustainable growth, members. resulting in healthy returns for Europe’s leading pension funds and insurers, to Invest Europe is a non-profit the benefit of the millions of European organisation with 21 employees in citizens who depend on them. Brussels, Belgium. Invest Europe aims to make a For more information visit www. constructive contribution to policy investeurope. affecting private capital investment LinkedIn Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects network on the Internet. The company the world’s professionals to make has a diversified business model with them more productive and successful. revenue coming from Talent Solutions, With more than 590+ million members Marketing Solutions, and Premium worldwide, including executives from Subscriptions products. Headquartered every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices is the world’s largest professional across the globe. & 162 In Partnership with www.thestateofeuropeantech.com