In 2022, around 45 percent of people received a state subsidies to finance their startup in Germany. Around 13 percent of respondents took out a bank loan. This data shows how startup founders in Germany financed their company.
1,825 data sets from founders, managers, and C-Level employees
Supplementary notes
The data comes from the German Startup Monitor (DSM) for which high-quality data sets are collected annually from founders and managing directors of start-ups. The founders or managing directors (members of the executive board e.g. chief level) of startups received a special questionnaire link by email which was sent through selected DSM network partners. In 2023, 1,825 complete data sets were collected for the survey between May 17 and June 20, 2023.
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