We have recently seen a very healthy market correction separating “vitamin” from “painkiller” applications and stopped trying to copy Silicon Valley. Instead we started to be more self con昀椀dent building on Europe’s very own strengths and DNA to build an ecosystem that unlocks our full potential. Robert Lacher Founding Partner, Visionaries Club I am very excited about Europe’s future IPO pipeline. Overall we are at an in昀氀ection point of global tech seeing a dramatically accelerated technology adoption in B2B: There is no economic reason for any part of the value chain not to be digitized in the long run if there is potential to streamline and au- tomate processes. This time we are in a strong position in Europe to shape the next wave of disruption in B2B: Europe is home to many global industrial world market leaders, most of them built on legacy technology with the po- tential to be either disrupted or enabled by new digital technologies. Europe is home to some of the global leading tech universities as sourcing ground to bring up new tech founders! The initial result are global category leaders born out of Europe such as Celonis, UiPath or Miro with the next generation such as Aiven, Pigment or Tacto on their toes to follow the trend. Europe’s never had a stronger pipeline of billion- dollar exit candidates The pipeline of mature European tech scaleups that are on an IPO trajectory has never been stronger. There are more than 120 credible candidates in the cohort of potential near- and medium-term IPOs when screening for a variety of factors, including scale, maturity and leadership team strength, among others. Many more waiting for their turn 126 Source Powered by potential $1B+ exits companies in the pipeline | 244