DISCOVER Edinburgh startups

Funding data and any possible statistic on Edinburgh startups and the local ecosystem. See how the local ecosystem scores against the European competition of startup hubs in the statistics below. If you have your own startup company find funding calls and accelerator programs to apply to, see statistics on previous participants of these programs. You can see the statistics on total investment raised, female founders or foreign-born and migrant founders in this tech hub.

All of the data is curated by the DEEP research team and comes from 1st party sources like the Annual Startup Heatmap Survey or our monitor for job creation, news mentions and female founders. Other data comes from 3rd party sources like Dealroom, Crunchbase or Stackoverflow.

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Scores
Popularity Score:1/100
1% of founder vote33rd Rank
Global Connectivity:68/100
25 connectivity points14th Rank
Brand Visibility:8/100
8 visibility points22nd Rank
Foreign Founders:100/100
67% foreign-born founders2nd Rank
Expansion Destination:5/100
2 local offices of unicorns33rd Rank
Female Founders:100/100
20% female founders3rd Rank
Developer Availability:15/100
3,193 developers31st Rank
Industry Connections:52/100
37% endorsements by founders50th Rank
Investment Raised:9/100
256mn € avg./yr.29th Rank
Investment Growth:28/100
58% growth of 3yr average29th Rank
Exits:26/100
2,117mn € avg./yr.18th Rank
Value for Money:62/100
44% founder endorsements45th Rank
Purpose Orientation:4/100
57% signal strength35th Rank
Ease of Doing Business:71/100
50% founder endorsements30th Rank
Entrepreneurial Universities:54/100
1435 university founders9th Rank

ECOSYSTEM Data and statistics on Edinburgh startups

What do I see here?Ecosystem Data is based on 1st and 3rd party research. Each source is individually checked and validated.

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