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Germany's New Startup Strategy Is Really a Scaleup Strategy
Germany's new Startup and Scaleup Strategy: 152 measures, DefenceTech, procurement reform, DeepTech financing. Why this is really about the European scaleup gap — and whether Germany can close it.
Hello and welcome everybody. This is E 766 of Startuprad.io, recorded solo by Joe Menninger from Frankfurt am Main. A deep-dive on the German federal government's new Startup and Scaleup Strategy — published in July 2026 by the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy — and why the real story is not the 152 measures. It is that Germany is finally admitting its central problem is not startup…
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