However, the combined valuations of Dutch startups stagnated, with
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TheNetherlandsis still the leader in the EU thanks to tech giants ASML, Prosus, and Adyen.
The Netherlands also welcomed one new unicorn in 2022, bringing its total to 1.4 unicorns per million inhabitants.
Attracting tech talent, however, presents to be challenging for many startups.
Specifically, the percentage of hard-to-fill tech jobs has increased to 59%.
On average, these types of vacancies stay open for more than 60 days.
This phenomenon occurred in other ecosystems as well, including Sweden, Germany, France, and the US.
Thats mainly because of insufficient capital.
This was significantly lower than other major EU startup ecosystems.
For reference, Swedens average was 0.9 million per startup.
On the brightside, investments on impact startups are on the rise with over 1 billion raised in 2022.
And investments in all sectors overperformed pre-pandemic levels.
The gender gap
The gender gap is still a problematic issue within the industry.
In particular, it could add 250K jobs and 400 billion in value by 2030.
Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou
Ioanna is a writer at TNW.
With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.
