{"id":167601,"date":"2025-08-22T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167601\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:38:09","slug":"the-10-best-european-countries-for-expats-to-launch-a-business-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167601\/","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=\"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":3,"featured_media":167602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96207,64,9958,96210,607,96204,96203,18749,96205,5968,96209,67,132,68,96206,96202,96208,56882,1205],"class_list":{"0":"post-167601","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-entrepreneurship","13":"tag-expat-entrepreneur","14":"tag-good-european-country","15":"tag-oecd","16":"tag-one-year-survival-rate","17":"tag-score","18":"tag-startup-density","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074820034699887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}