The German startup ecosystem is off to a strong start in 2026: Between January and June, 3,053 new startups were founded. This represents a 52 percent increase compared to the second half of 2025 and means more startups were founded than in all of 2024.
I have mainly been seeing AI and defense companies in the German tech market. Not the kind of companies we need.
Which would you need?
One that builds affordable housing?
That’s a political problem. Most voters don’t want housing to be affordable. Urban development is in the hands of councils mostly.
Please provide sources for your claims, that „most voters don‘t want housing to be affordable“ and „urban development is in the hands of councils mostly“. You can use websearch.
For me, my impression is different, considering Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen and the state‘s reaction not to consider the public‘s interest, but to instead change expropriation laws to block the possibility to let it happen by demand of the common folk.
Maybe it‘s a systemic problem, have you considered that?
Companies focused on digital sovereignty. The EU, both companies and end users, are completely dependent on US software and operating systems. There is a bit of movement around governments using Linux, but there is nothing happening around replacing iOS and Android.
You already have iode, /e/, Graphene OS and Jolla. How many other startups do you need? The problem is not lack of software. What is needed is legislation to force compatibility with de-googled phones. It’s up to EU, not startups.
Also, EU needs sovereignty in defense badly. It’s hard to fight American corporations when you still need US to defend you. Defense startups are welcome.
Germans are the least trustworthy partners when it comes to military. So no, we don’t need them to create new ways to slaughter their neighbours.
We still don’t have an EU replacement for Visa/MasterCard, Intel/amd, nvidia/amd, but building these takes more than a couple of chatgpt prompts
Germany bad!
Germany bad! truely is your best argument.
The amount of nihilistic, anti-German views (which are even mostly unrelated to the topic) is very telling imo. And more so as the views come in parts from accounts that post almost exclusively comments seeking to criticize Europe while hailing China and Russia if I may say so.
And you’re spouting paranoid twaddle.
Because they‘re the account with the anti Russia and anti China focus. That’s what they spam the main communities with and just cannot accept a negative image of Europe. Pip (OP) has more of a pronounced positive focus directly towards Europe, Germany, but surely free markets, and also just cannot except a negative spin.
