In 2024, over 39 percent of German startup founders fell into the 25 to 34 age category. This was also the age bracket with the largest share of startup founders. 33.6 percent of founders were between 35 and 44 years old.
The DSM defines the term “startup” as follows:
Startups are less than 10 years old
Startups have planned employee and/or sales growth and/or
are (highly) innovative with their products/services, their business model and/or their technologies
According to the DSM, a company is a startup if the first condition mentioned above is met and at least one of the other two conditions is also met
Startup company founders in Germany 2024, by age group
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 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.
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Bundesverband Deutsche Startups. (September 29, 2024). Startup company founders in Germany 2024, by age group [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332362/start-up-founders-age-germany/
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