BR: Romanian tech startups need more capital for growth

As coronavirus has influenced Europe’s economies in the last seven months, the tech sector continues to expand and create employment opportunities. Despite Covid-19, European companies have raised 29 billion euros in 2020 so far, according to Business-Review.eu.

With a decrease of 69% (from 0.7B euros to 0,2B euros), Romania registered one of the highest negative impact on the cumulative venture capital investment amount from January to October 2020 as compared to  January to October 2019, according to new data produced by Dealroom for the Not Optional – Making Europe the Most Entrepreneurial Continent summit.

Based on this data, the value of European tech companies has risen by 46% in 2020, although the biggest leap happened between 2015 and the start of January 2020.

A third of the combined value of companies is based on the top 10 leading tech businesses in Europe: Adyen, BioNtech, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Spotify, Ocado, HelloFresh, Takeaway.com, UiPath and Zalando.

Spain and Denmark are other two countries with a big decrease of the cumulative venture capital investment in 2020: -51% and -34%.

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