European Tech Prowess Underappreciated
January 28, 2014
For some reason, a lot of people seem to overlook Europe’s many technology success stories. Tech.eu sets the record straight in, “Really, so the Only European Tech Companies You Know Are Skype and Spotify? Here’s Another 120 for You.” The paucity of search- and content-processing start-ups listed in the article, though, makes us wonder; it seems those companies are being doubly overlooked.
When one of Tech.eu’s posts made it to Hacker News, editor Robin Wauters noticed that several commenters cast uninformed aspersions upon Europe’s tech-company prowess with comments like, “seriously, does Europe have any tech companies other than Skype and maybe Spotify? I can’t name any others lol.”
Wauters writes:
“It was amusing at first, because there are of course many more, and perhaps this person was simply trolling. Besides, many in Silicon Valley and other places around the world are well aware that there are plenty of excellent and fast-growing tech companies coming out of Europe. Being able to name but two is a testament of one’s stupidity, at best.”
Gee, tell us how you really feel. As the title suggests, Wauters lists 120 companies by name, but emphasizes this is far from a comprehensive list. He presents them by category: entertainment, business solutions, e-commerce, latest trends, and miscellaneous. It is in this last section that we find the few search and data analysis companies Wauters chose to include:
“- Perhaps you’ve used travel search site Skyscanner (Scotland) to research and/or book a trip? The company is growing fast, and recently raised funding from Sequoia Capital at a $800 million valuation.
– Scientists and researchers are known to frequent ResearchGate (Germany) and Mendeley (UK).”
Has Google become so dominant that informed analysts look away from search and data-processing for evidence of Europe’s tech vibrance? Perhaps Tech.eu would do well to check their own assumptions.
Cynthia Murrell, January 28, 2014
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