Startup Genome

A project like the Global Startup Ecosystem Report can only be realized with an enormous effort from both the project team and external supporters. Several partners have invested significant resources into the project. Numerous advisors, founders, investors, and industry experts have given us access to their knowledge, networks, and time because they support our vision and want to move their ecosystem and the whole startup sector forward. Startup Genome and Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) would like to express our deep gratitude and appreciation to everyone who contributed towards making this project possible.

Startup Genome Authors

JF Gauthier, Chief Executive Officer

Marc Penzel, President

Stephan Kuester, Head of Ecosystem Strategy

Malavika Kumaran, Director of Research

External Authors

Harry Glorikian, Author & General Partner at Scientia Ventures

Project Team

Startup Genome

JF Gauthier, Chief Executive Officer

Marc Penzel, President

Stephan Kuester, Head of Ecosystem Strategy

Tricia Whitlock, Chief Operation Officer

Malavika Kumaran, Director of Research

Rahul Chatterjee, Director of Operations

Adam Bregu, Director of Business Development & Partnerships

Farshad Fahimi, Lead Data Scientist & Machine Learning Expert

Pranav Arya, Senior Consultant

Akshat Agarwal, Manager, Research

Ethan Webster, Innovation Policy Specialist

Sama Siddiqui, Member Relationship Lead

Utkarsh Jain, Senior Analyst

Shreesh Chandra Dubey, Senior Operations Coordinator

Poorva Mendiratta, Senior Analyst

Anshika Gandhi, Business Analyst

Parshant Sharma, Project Manager - Data Science

Vishal Tyagi, Data Analyst

Rahul Kumar, Data Analyst

Whitney Messervy, Marketing Expert

Janice Venable, PR & Events Expert

Hana Javurkova, PR & Events Expert

Pavan Kumar, Manager of Sales Operations & CRM Administrator

Shekhar Parihar, Process Lead of Lead Generation & CRM Support

Neha Thapliyal, Business Development Assistant

Ana Lucia Osorio, Executive Assistant to the CEO

Khushboo Verma, Research Intern

Aman Bansal, Data Science Intern

Vasken Spiru, Data Science Intern

Yin Shi Pang, Business Development Intern

Marsbased, Website Development

Kritivity Web Solutions, Design

Global Entrepreneurship Network

Jonathan Ortmans, President

Mark Marich, Executive Vice President

Buke Cuhadar, Vice President for Global Operations

Cristina Fernandez, Vice President for Policy and Research

Peter Komives, Vice President for Strategic Development

Susan Amat, Vice President for Education

Global Partners

TNW: TNW is a global digital brand that informs, inspires and connects people who love tech, through media, events, and spaces. Primarily known for its media outlet and award-winning tech events, TNW also incorporates a co-working label, a global start-up database, and delivers custom innovation programs to corporates and governments.
Bella Private Markets: Provides actionable advice on private capital challenges. Combining rigorous academic approaches with real world industry expertise, our expert team focuses on complex, customized projects that require thorough analysis, whether quantitative or qualitative in nature, to help our clients assess or design strategies, improve performance, and chart winning strategies for the future.
Crunchbase: Everyday investors, journalists, founders, and the global business community turn to Crunchbase for information on startups and the people behind them.
Dealroom.co: Provides data-driven intelligence on high-growth companies.
Hello Tomorrow: A global non-profit organization on a mission to unlock the potential of deep technologies to solve the world's toughest challenges by highlighting, empowering and connecting the most promising deeptech entrepreneurs across the globe with the right enablers. They bring together a community of actors to facilitate collaboration between entrepreneurs, industries and investors in order to propel innovation from the lab to the market.
Tech Nation (formerly Tech City UK): Empowers ambitious tech entrepreneurs through growth programmes, digital entrepreneurship skills, a visa scheme for exceptional talent and by championing the UK digital sector through data, stories and media campaigns.