In 2023, over 42 percent of German startup founders fell into the 30 to 39 age category. This was also the age bracket with the largest share of startup founders.
Startup company founders in Germany 2023, by age group
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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 2023 is based on 1,825 data sets from founders and managing directors after the completion of the data set cleaning. The data was collected from May 17 to June 20, 2023.
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Bundesverband Deutsche Startups. (September 20, 2023). Startup company founders in Germany 2023, by age group [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332362/start-up-founders-age-germany/
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