Nicolas Colin(@Nicolas_Colin):1️⃣ Why does Europe struggle to fund its own startups? Look at where it keeps its retirement money. Americans hold retirement savings worth 153% of GDP. The Dutch, 151%. The French, 13%. Germans, 6%. Most of Europe pays pensions out of today's wages. So it never builds the big pools of long-term capital that fund VC in the US. (I work at Vsquared Ventures, an early-stage deep tech VC firm investing across Europe. Views my own.) (OECD)

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Nicolas Colin@Nicolas_Colin

2026.11.05 08:49

1️⃣ Why does Europe struggle to fund its own startups? Look at where it keeps its retirement money. Americans hold retirement savings worth 153% of GDP. The Dutch, 151%. The French, 13%. Germans, 6%. Most of Europe pays pensions out of today's wages. So it never builds the big pools of long-term capital that fund VC in the US. (I work at Vsquared Ventures, an early-stage deep tech VC firm investing across Europe. Views my own.) (OECD)