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> Nothing with worldwide relevance in the software, AI nor cloud space came out of Germany / the EU within in the last decades. Let me list some: * Teamviewer
by est31 4y ago
> Nothing with worldwide relevance in the software, AI nor cloud space came out of Germany / the EU within in the last decades.
Let me list some:
* Teamviewer: used to be more famous in the past but it is still a known brand to people world wide
* Cherry: more of a hardware thing, but they are known world-wide for their MX switches
* Deepl: a xoogler founded startup that is better than Google translate
* Soundcloud: well known all over the world, was founded in Berlin
* Suse: founded in the 90s and had steady growth since
* SAP: world leader in ERP software. Seriously people underestimate how well entrenched they are.
In the last two years, three of these companies had IPOs, two of them as unicorns. Sure, its is dwarfed by the US tech Cloud/AI/software sector but there are certainly world wide players from germany in the digital industry.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoTo be fair, apart from SAP, none of those are hugely profitable or hiring like crazy.
- ushakov 4y agothese are exceptions US produces more unicorns per year that Germany managed in 20 years https://news.crunchbase.com/unicorn-company-list/ https://news.crunchbase.com/unicorn-company-list/
- est31 4y agoGermany is #5 on your provided link if you click on "Countries with most current unicorns". But yes, the USA has 20 times the number of unicorns, and I've said that the german tech industry is dwarved by the US one. More than half the unicorns on that website are in the USA (665 in the USA, 1328 - 665 = 663 outside). My point was that Germany definitely had some world known brands in software, it's more than zero.
- fomine3 4y agoThe US is exceptional.
- karmakaze 4y agoI'm afraid that though I've heard of most of these, this short list reinforces rather than refutes the claim by covering such wide ranges of area and time period.