Acknowledgments

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 Keuster, Head of Ecosystem Strategy
Dr. Christopher Haley, Head of Research
Hazel Boydell, Editor-in-Chief
Forrest Wright, Research Assessment Lead
Pranav Arya, Director, Ecosystem Strategy

External Authors

Anthony Griffin
Carly Sheridan
Jessica Stillman
Julia Janicki

Expert Contributors

Adenike Adeyemi, Executive Director, FATE Foundation
Andrea Johnston, Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation Canada, ISED
Arnobio Morelix, Co-Founder & CEO, Sirius College
Michal Michaeli, International Economic Development & Tel Aviv Tech Director, Tel Aviv Global & Tourism (R.A.)
Stina Lantz, CEO, SISP and Program Manager, Ignite Sweden
Constantijn van Oranje, Special Envoy, Techleap.nl
Ruben Nieuwenhuis, Co-Founder, Cupola XS

Project Team

Startup Genome

JF Gauthier, Founder & CEO
Marc Penzel, Founder & President
Stephan Keuster, Head of Ecosystem Strategy
Tricia Naik, Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Christopher Haley, Head of Research
Hazel Boydell, Editor-in-Chief
Rahul Chatterjee, Director, Global Operations & MD, Delhi
Adam Bregu, Director of Business Development & Partnerships
Pranav Arya, Director, Ecosystem Strategy
Parshant Sharma, Data Science Lead
Sama Siddiqui, Member Relationship Lead
Forrest Wright, Research Assessment Lead
Ethan Webster, Manager, Ecosystem Research & Strategy
Lucia Stefanuto, Data Storytelling & Visualization Lead
Anna Brashear, Growth Marketing Manager
Marina Krizman, Senior Business Development Specialist
Utkarsh Jain, Consulting Manager
Aditya Thakkar, Consultant
Shreesh Dubey, Senior Operations Manager
Ananya Sharma, Operations Coordinator
Anshika Gandhi, Project Manager
Nimisha Mendiratta, Project Associate
Rahul Kumar, Data Scientist
Aman Bansal, Data Scientist
Naajid Sarosh, Data Engineer
Tanishq Malik, Senior Business Analyst
Parth Arora, Business Analyst
Janice Venable, PR & Marketing
Hana Javurkova, Events Coordinator
Anna Chadwell, Sales Representative
Pavan Kumar, Manager of Sales Operations & CRM Administrator
Shekhar Parihar, Process Lead, Lead Generation & CRM Support
Neha Thapliyal, Business Development Assistant
Carolina Vidal Botero, Sales Intern
Ana Lucia Osorio, Executive Assistant to the CEO
Parisaa Tripathi, Intern
Abigail Cox, Marketing Intern
Rajdeep Gupta, Data Science Intern
Gaurav Bhardwaj, Operations Intern
Litslink, Website Development
Sara Inglês, Designer
Vidur Sehgal, Designer
MyStartupCFO, Finance & Accounting

Global Entrepreneurship Network

Jonathan Ortmans, President
Mark Marich, Executive Vice President
Matt Smith, Director for Policy and Research
Cecilia Wessinger, Director for Global Community
Peter Komives, Vice President for Strategic Development
Susan Amat, Vice President for Education

Image Credits

This year’s cover and back cover show Melbourne. All images taken from Unsplash.

Key Author Bios

Startup Genome

JF Gauthier  

Marc Penzel 

Head of Ecosystem Strategy. Stephan works with clients in government and private industry consortia all around the world, advising on the creation and the acceleration of tech and innovation clusters and related public and private policy. Prior to his role at Startup Genome, Stephan headed up the International Consulting practice at U.K. ecosystem agency Tech Nation (formerly Tech City UK) in London and served as Managing Director of Digital Switzerland. Previous to his work in the digital ecosystems space, Stephan worked as an Executive Director for professional services firms Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. Stephan holds an MSc in Economics and studied at the University of Bonn, Germany and the London School of Economics (LSE).

Hazel Boydell