Europe's growth funding problem
The lack of local, late-stage growth funding has plagued European tech for years. But with the EU’s €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund starting to deploy this year, along with a host of other growth funds being raised in 2026, the gap looks to be getting filled. This panel will get into whether Europe still has a growth funding problem, whether funding is going to the right places, and what other barriers are holding back Europe's scaleups from becoming global category leaders.