Startup founders in Europe by gender 2018

This statistic shows the gender distribution of startup founders in selected European countries in 2018. Almost a quarter of startup founders in Poland are female, making it the country with the highest proportion of females founding startups. In Portugal, only 5.1 percent of startup founders are women, the lowest proportion of any country in this statistic.

Gender distribution of startup founders in selected European countries in 2018

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Release date

November 2018

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

February 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."

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