When an exchange is made At the end of last month he wrote about Sweden’s startup scene, and this week we said we’d be visiting the Nordics. So a promise is a promise.
But after hours of watching YC’s Winter 2023 demo day games this week, we couldn’t help but try to connect the dots: Are Scandinavian startups making waves at Y Combinator? Turns out, not really. And that’s really fun.
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Two: This is the number of startups with offices in Denmark, Norway or Sweden in YC’s latest, according to Accelerator’s own data. However, these three countries produce more of their fair share of startups compared to their larger European peers.
If you add the fact that rival accelerators have given up 500 startups and techstars on their Stockholm programs, a pattern begins to emerge. Maybe Scandinavian startups don’t need an international accelerator, thank you very much?
Number disconnection
It may be coincidental that there have been very few Scandinavian startups among YC’s recent startups. YC forces you to invest a lot of time Founders, not ideas; Perhaps this shows that office spaces are not given much thought. As a result, the number of starters from a particular country may vary slightly from batch to batch.
