{"id":16550,"date":"2025-08-22T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16550\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:10:08","slug":"the-10-best-european-countries-for-expats-to-launch-a-business-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16550\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best European Countries for Expats to Launch a Business in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Expat entrepreneur score:<\/strong> 8.66\/10<\/p>\n<p>With its massive venture capital ecosystem and strong entrepreneurial pipeline, the UK leads the list \u2014 and not just because of deep pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Startups headquartered in Britain attracted over \u00a33.15 billion, or $4.22 billion, in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/personal-finance\/investing\/venture-capital\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tech VC funding<\/a> in the most recent calendar year, more than any other country in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But capital is only part of the story. The UK also has one of the highest startup densities, with 18.62 new businesses per 1,000 workers, and a solid one-year survival rate of 89.2%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it does lead by a big margin in venture capital volume, and it&#8217;s certainly a major factor, the UK&#8217;s top position overall isn&#8217;t solely driven by this, as it also scores highly for a number of other factors,&#8221; said Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;one of the highest new business densities, a strong one-year business survival rate, a high number of Forbes-listed business owners,&#8221; Cooper said, &#8220;the UK&#8217;s lead shows that it&#8217;s broadly strong across all categories.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expat entrepreneur score: 8.66\/10 With its massive venture capital ecosystem and strong entrepreneurial pipeline, the UK leads the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[14954,79,5812,14959,18,236,14950,14949,19,17,14956,14952,14951,14958,14953,14948,14955,14957,13180],"class_list":{"0":"post-16550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-billionaire-founder-count","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-country","11":"tag-dealroom","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entrepreneurship","14":"tag-expat-entrepreneur","15":"tag-good-european-country","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-oecd","19":"tag-one-year-survival-rate","20":"tag-score","21":"tag-startup-density","22":"tag-venture-capital-investment","23":"tag-weighted-metric","24":"tag-william-russell","25":"tag-workforce-participation","26":"tag-world-bank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}