1,828 data sets from founders, managers and C-Level employees
Supplementary notes
The data comes from the German Startup Monitor (DSM), for which high-quality data sets are collected annually from founders and managing directors of startups. The founders or managing directors (members of the executive board, e.g. chief level) of startups received a special questionnaire link by email which was sent through selected DSM network partners. The DSM 2024 is based on 1,828 data sets from founders and managing directors after the completion of the data set cleaning. The data was collected from June 6 to August 12, 2024.
* In the last round of surveys.
Figures until 2019 are based on earlier information from the source.
The share of male founders of German startups has been mostly around ** percent, peaking in 2014 at ** percent. The highest percentage of female founders, **** percent, was recorded in 2023.Â
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