Independent research by DutchBasecamp and Ogni, based on 150+ founder perspectives across Europe, will be revealed at an exclusive Amsterdam event co-hosted with CCIA Europe on June 30.
Across Europe, startup and scale-up founders are increasingly warning that fragmented and overlapping digital regulation is slowing down innovation, delaying expansion, and making it harder tocompete globally.
GDPR, the AI Act, NIS2, CRA, DORA, MDR/IVDR. For many companies, the issue isno longer a single regulation. It is the cumulative operational weight of navigating all of them at once across 27 member states.
And despite years of conversations about the Single Market, many founders say it still does not feel like one in practice.
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That conversation is now coming to Amsterdam.
On June 30, DutchBasecamp and CCIA Europe will host “EU Nough Tech Rules? The Realities of Scaling in Europe”, an exclusive event bringing together founders, CEOs of fast-scaling European tech companies, investors, operators, policymakers from Brussels and the Netherlands, and broader ecosystem leaders to discuss the realities of building and scaling tech companies across Europe today.
The event will also mark the reveal of new independent research conducted by DutchBasecamp together with Ogni, based on interviews and survey responses from 150+ founders and operators across multiple EU member states.
What was once seen primarily as a legal or compliance issue is increasingly becoming an operational and competitiveness problem. Founders interviewed during the research described delayed market entry, slower procurement cycles, rising compliance costs, blocked product launches, and growing uncertainty around expansion strategies.
Some companies are now factoring regulatory complexity into decisions about where to hire, where to launch products, and whether to scale inside Europe at all.
The research spans companies from Seed stage to Series F and focuses not on policy theory, but on how Europeʼs regulatory environment impacts businesses in practice.
For many founders, the issue is not regulation itself. It is overlap, fragmentation, and inconsistent implementation across markets that are all supposed to operate under one European framework.
And increasingly, founders are starting to ask a difficult question: if Europe wants globally competitive tech champions, can it afford to make scaling across Europe feel this operationally complex?
There is still time to contribute to the research if you are a founder, operator, or tech leader building across Europe.
The research findings will be revealed during the June 30 event in Amsterdam. Request an invitation to the event.
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