Data and insights

Facts and figures on entrepreneurship in Germany. Gathered for you, researched for you.

everypreneurs is set up as an experiment, and an experiment without measurement is just an assertion. We record what works and what doesn’t, and make the findings usable for others, particularly where they argue against our own assumptions. What we know so far will be published here once it is solid.

91%
of venture capital goes to all-male founding teams.1Female Founders Monitor 2025, Startupverband, im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2025.
19%
of startup founders are women, and the share has fallen recently.1Female Founders Monitor 2025, Startupverband, im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2025.
35%
of all business formations are by women, and only 27 per cent of full-time ones.2KfW-Gründungsmonitor 2025, KfW Research, 2025.
19.1m
of the 35.9 million employees work in small and medium-sized enterprises.3Beschäftigte in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen, IfM Bonn, nach Unternehmensregister des Statistischen Bundesamtes, 2023.

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