Dealroom is a global company information database & research firm. Its software, database and bespoke research enable its clients to stay at the forefront of innovation, discover promising companies and identify strategic opportunities. Among its clients are world-leading strategy consulting firms, investment banks, multinationals, technology firms, venture capital & buyout firms and governments. For more information, please visit: https://dealroom.co

The European Startup initiative behind the Heatmap is a non-profit organization enabling founders and tech talent to navigate European startup hubs and support community builders to connect their ecosystems.

http://www.startupheatmap.com

The Startup Heatmap Europe is an annual survey among founders and the greater tech community on mobility and the attractiveness of startup hubs. The 2018 survey was collected between April and August 2018 and had 1,500 participants. After cleaning and sampling the data, 984 complete datasets remained that were weighted to adjust for regional representativeness on country level. Founders were 57.52% of respondents. For long-term trends in founder mobility, we used a combined dataset of 3 years with 1,661 distinct founder datasets.

More people find jobs on Indeed than anywhere else. Indeed is the #1 job site in the world and allows jobseekers to search millions of jobs on the web or mobile in over 60 countries and 28 languages. More than 200 million people each month search for jobs, post CVs, and research companies on Indeed, and Indeed is the #1 source of external hires for thousands of companies (sources: SilkRoad & iCIMS). For more information, visit indeed.com.

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) is a diversified international exchange Group that sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1801. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe’s leading fixed income market; and the pan-European equities platform, Turquoise. Through its markets, the Group offers international business, and investors, unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets. Post trade and risk management services are a significant and growing part of the Group’s business operations. LSEG operates CC&G, the Rome headquartered CCP and Monte Titoli, the significant European settlement business, selected as a first wave T2S participant. The Group is also a majority owner of leading multi-asset global CCP, LCH.

The Group offers its customers an extensive range of real-time and reference data products, including Sedol, UnaVista and RNS. FTSE calculates thousands of unique indices that measure and benchmark markets and asset classes in more than 80 countries around the world. London Stock Exchange Group is also a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software. In addition to the Group’s own markets, over 40 other organisations and exchanges around the world use the Group’s MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy, France, North America and Sri Lanka, the Group employs approximately 4,700 people.

POLITICO Europe, launched in April 2015, is a joint venture between POLITICO LLC, a global nonpartisan politics and policy news organization, and Axel Springer, the leading digital publisher in Europe.

With operations based in Brussels and additional offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Frankfurt, POLITICO Europe connects the dots between European power centers. In June 2018, an annual ComRes/Burson-Marsteller survey ranked POLITICO Europe as the #1 most influential publication on European affairs, for the second year running.

POLITICO’s premium policy intelligence service, POLITICO Pro, empowers thousands of policy experts and decision-makers from over 730 organizations in 28 countries, on key industries from Technology, Financial Services and Trade to Competition, Data & Digitization, Mobility and more. Subscribers include EU and national government, corporations, trade associations, consultancies, law firms, and NGOs.

POLITICO Pro’s newest offering, Pro Intelligence, is an innovative platform which fuses the power of technology with the power of journalism, providing professionals with an overview of bills, legislation, voting behaviour and attendance, tweets, activities, press releases, transcripts and more, at the touch of a button. Users can track information on the EU Institutions and national legislatures in the UK, France and Germany. Pro Intelligence was used by Atomico to research data on EU Tech legislation for this report.

Preqin is the home of alternative assets, providing indispensable data, solutions and insights to support alternative asset professionals at every stage of the investment cycle. Since 2003, we have been the most trusted source of information on alternative assets, spanning private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, private debt, natural resources and secondaries. Our products and services are relied upon by more than 60,000 industry participants in over 90 countries, for a range of activities including fundraising, investor relations, asset allocation, fund manager selection and business development. Preqin is an independent business with over 400 staff based in New York, London, Singapore, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Manila.

Quid is software that reads millions of documents and offers immediate insight by organizing that content visually. We power human intuition with machine intelligence, enabling organizations to make decisions that matter. The tool uses big-data analytics, natural language processing and network science to help surface key insights, enabling our Fortune 1000 clients to quickly complete analyses like competitive tracking, market landscapes, brand narrative maps, and intelligence briefings.

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities. Stack Overflow partners with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. Our products and services are focused on developer marketing, technical recruiting, market research, and knowledge sharing within organizations.