• European startups by industry sector 2018

This statistic illustrates the different sectors which startups in Europe belong to according to founders responding to a 2018 survey. Startups that class themselves as being part of the IT or software development sector make up 19.1 percent of all ventures, the most of any category. Software as a Service (SaaS) startups are the second most common industry-sector in this statistic, accounting for 18.5 percent of ventures.

Distribution of startups according to industry sector in Europe in 2018

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Release date

November 2018

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

Feburary to May 2018

Special properties

Startup founders

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information regarding methodology: "The data for the EU Startup Monitor 2018 was collected from February-May 2018 with an online survey directly targeted at founders and C-level employees of start-ups, in cooperation with many practitioner supporters, start-up associations and a variety of ecosystem stakeholders. All EU Member States were encouraged to participate and sufficient data was generated for 18 countries, so that the results present a comprehensive overview of the current startup landscape."