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After a rough few years, startup investment in Europe is showing life again. DW speaks with an industry insider – Christian Bauer of clean-tech fundraiser InnoEnergy – about what’s working, which areas are thriving and where European startups are still falling behind.
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Date: October 7, 2025
Great interview!!
One tiny remark.
UK the windiest country in Europe= 20GWh batteries. Spain the sunniest country= 0.12 GWh. And not one in the waiting list.
Something IS very wrong in Spain. The EU should set Up objetives for storage, not only for connections or decarb.
why would anyone open a business if renting homes is the most profitable thing one can do right now?
Great to finally see some talk about Europe making domestic investment in the startups, tech,…
Good interview , loved the direct answers , did not know that this kind of knowledge was already perceived. Again it’s Europe united that needs to solve this issues faster and cohesive, so all Europe benefits not just some countries. Also remember to support Ukraine as there is a lot of potencial there for many of the future we want eg raw materials. Think as an investment long run just like US did. And of course stop the war and killings.
Europe has too many bureaucrats holding up progress. We need to get rid of over half the bureaucracy in European businesses, as a result you will see businesses flourish.
Bureaucracy increases the cost of operations which makes running a business difficult. EU needs to get rids of all unwanted bureaucratic rules which are irrelevant along with bureaucrats who make them and are a cost to the EU
Yeah bounce it baby
The EU is a very bad, bureaucratically deadly environment for any startup. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
In Europe it's hard to gather capital it's already lucky if you get a million for investment in your startup, that's why people with talent just leave for the US. They can easily gather capital there and with less restrictions they can explore more of their talents than in Europe where bureaucracy takes more of your time over growing your business.
Go to Warsaw if you want the best engineers and direct connection to Silicon Valey’s VCs… There is no better place in Europe