Europe’s regulation-heavy reputation hides big opportunities for Israeli startups
Europe has had a hard time battling its recent reputation as a continent that generally lacks innovation and growth. The memes have written themselves: as the U.S. releases ChatGPT and China counters with DeepSeek, the EU has banned plastic straws and glued caps to their soda bottles.
It is no wonder why Startup Nation pines over North America instead of Europe.
Historically Europe has been a difficult market because it’s really fragmented with different languages, but mostly fragmented because of regulation,” said Thomas Visan, Partner at Sienna Venture Capital. “The fact that Europe has been lagging behind the U.S. and China for quite some time, they are now trying to push a lot of things to facilitate mostly the way to work in Europe.”
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