{"id":237171,"date":"2025-07-04T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237171\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:34:20","slug":"one-in-three-german-startups-sceptical-on-us-investor-financing-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237171\/","title":{"rendered":"One in three German startups sceptical on US investor financing, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -Nearly one in three startups in Germany would have second thoughts about accepting financing from U.S. investors, according to a survey released on Friday, in a sign of growing scepticism about the business environment under U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:President Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Germany&#8217;s startup scene has long considered the United States a key partner, but sentiment has begun to shift amid uncertainty about Trump&#8217;s policies, with 70% of the 152 tech startups surveyed by digital association Bitkom saying he presents a risk to the German economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">As a result, 31% of the founders said they are reconsidering financing out of the U.S., with 13% saying they now prefer EU investors, while 11% say they have become more cautious and 7% no longer consider it an option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">However, 30% said U.S. investors are still attractive to them even after the change in government, found Bitkom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Nearly 90% called on Germany to strengthen its digital sovereignty and to become more independent from the U.S. by removing bureaucratic hurdles and making it easier to access public contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;Authorities and administrations should become anchor customers for startups,&#8221; said Bitkom president Ralf Wintergerst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;And we need to mobilize more venture capital for startups, especially from institutional investors,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Andreas Rinke, Writing by Miranda Murray, Editing by Friederike Heine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -Nearly one in three startups in Germany would have second thoughts about accepting financing from U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[32,2000,299,18192,1824,9406],"class_list":{"0":"post-237171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-financing","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-tech-startups"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114794519801280977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}