European Commission Launches "Choose Europe to Start and Scale" Strategy

Shared 29 May, 2025

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The European Commission has launched theEU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, ‘Choose Europe to Start and Scale’, to make Europe a great place to start and grow global technology-driven companies. The Strategy aligns with the broader ‘Choose Europe’ initiative, launched by President von der Leyen. This initiative focused first on the science component promoting a unified European approach to attract and retain talent, thereby strengthening Europe’s competitiveness.

The strategy addresses key startup needs through five main areas:

  • Fostering innovation-friendly environment: The Commission will propose a European 28th regime to simplify rules and reduce failure costs across insolvency, labour and tax law. The European Business Wallet will enable seamless digital interactions with public administrations, while the European Innovation Act will promote regulatory sandboxes.
  • Driving better financing: The strategy aims to expand the European Innovation Council, deploy a Scaleup Europe Fund for deep tech scale-ups, and develop a European Innovation Investment Pact to mobilise institutional investors in EU venture capital funds and unlisted scaleups.
  • Supporting market uptake and expansion: The Lab to Unicorn initiative includes European Startup and Scaleup Hubs connecting university ecosystems, with blueprints for IP commercialisation, licensing, and spinoff creation.
  • Attracting and retaining top talent: The Blue Carpet initiative focuses on entrepreneurial education, employee stock option taxation, and cross-border employment, plus fast-track schemes for non-EU founders.
  • Facilitating access to infrastructure: A Charter of Access for industrial users will simplify and harmonise startup access to technology and research infrastructures.

Businesses that are born in Europe must grow in Europe. With the launch of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, we unlock growth drivers for Europe’s most innovative and promising companies. We cut red tape, we facilitate their access to financing, we improve their ability to do business across our Single Market. In other words, we want to put Europe right in the middle of the global innovation map, for companies and investors. Europe we can lead on its own terms and be the place where innovation thrives. – Stéphane Séjourné, Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy

The EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy is a clear statement of purpose: to make Europe the best place in the world to start and grow a business. The Strategy will enable us to turn Europe’s wealth of creativity, research and ambition into thriving new companies, quality jobs and real-world impacts. With the five concrete actions, we are removing the barriers that hold our entrepreneurs back. Europe is ready to scale up. – Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation

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BuiltAPI GmbH, the company pioneering API-driven data infrastructure for real estate investment and asset management, has successfully closed its latest funding round backed by industry leaders including Second Century Ventures, TDS, and Propertymark. The investment marks a major milestone as BuiltAPI expands its services across Europe and the UK, following its graduation from the REACH UK Accelerator Program.

BuiltAPI tackles one of the real estate sector’s most persistent problems: fragmented, siloed data ecosystems. The company provides a robust API framework that enables seamless connectivity between legacy systems, modern SaaS tools, and intelligent automation platforms — with interoperability, governance, and cybersecurity at its core.

“We’re building the backbone of real estate data infrastructure,” said Olga Dentzel, Co-Founder of BuiltAPI. “This funding and the support of the REACH UK program are accelerating our ability to deliver secure, scalable integrations to clients across borders.”

BuiltAPI’s technology is already making an impact with major real estate institutions such as HIH Real Estate and its fund service platform INTREAL, through their digital unit INTREAL Solutions. These collaborations highlight a shared vision for practical and scalable digital transformation in real estate asset and investment management.

“The industry doesn’t need yet another tool — it needs a connective tissue,” added Ivan Nokhrin, Co-Founder of BuiltAPI. “Our mission is to empower real estate professionals to access, share, and act on their data securely and without barriers.”

Graduation from the REACH UK Accelerator — the scale-up program backed by Second Century Ventures – marks BuiltAPI’s official entry into the UK market. The program has played a key role in unlocking investors support and refining BuildAPI’s growth trajectory.

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BuiltAPI GmbH, the company pioneering API-driven data infrastructure for real estate investment and asset management, has successfully closed its latest funding round backed by industry leaders including Second Century Ventures, TDS, and Propertymark. The investment marks a major milestone as BuiltAPI expands its services across Europe and the UK, following its graduation from the REACH UK Accelerator Program.

BuiltAPI tackles one of the real estate sector’s most persistent problems: fragmented, siloed data ecosystems. The company provides a robust API framework that enables seamless connectivity between legacy systems, modern SaaS tools, and intelligent automation platforms — with interoperability, governance, and cybersecurity at its core.

“We’re building the backbone of real estate data infrastructure,” said Olga Dentzel, Co-Founder of BuiltAPI. “This funding and the support of the REACH UK program are accelerating our ability to deliver secure, scalable integrations to clients across borders.”

BuiltAPI’s technology is already making an impact with major real estate institutions such as HIH Real Estate and its fund service platform INTREAL, through their digital unit INTREAL Solutions. These collaborations highlight a shared vision for practical and scalable digital transformation in real estate asset and investment management.

“The industry doesn’t need yet another tool — it needs a connective tissue,” added Ivan Nokhrin, Co-Founder of BuiltAPI. “Our mission is to empower real estate professionals to access, share, and act on their data securely and without barriers.”

Graduation from the REACH UK Accelerator — the scale-up program backed by Second Century Ventures – marks BuiltAPI’s official entry into the UK market. The program has played a key role in unlocking investors support and refining BuildAPI’s growth trajectory.

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