Which sectors are more likely to be aiming at US expansion?
Cybersecurity founders outside the US are 42% more likely than the average non-US founder to name the US as a target. Automotive founders are 35% less likely. Eight sectors over-index on US-bound expansion; six under-index. The corridor is real, but it’s a tech corridor.
Atlantic Asymmetry: UK and US innovation company expansion plans
Seventy-three per cent of UK founders who name any international expansion destination name the United States. Sector mix tells a sharper story still — cybersecurity and healthtech for UK->US, edtech for US->UK, and a surprise: UK fintech is under-indexed on the US route.
Where Founders Plan to Expand: Cultural and Diaspora Patterns in shipshape.vc Data
Sixty-eight per cent of Irish founders plan to expand to the UK, and thirty-four per cent of Indian founders name the GCC. The gaps between these origin-destination pairs and the rest of the chart are wider than market size alone would predict. We look at why diaspora and linguistic ties may be the unfair advantage behind founders’ expansion plans.
Africa’s Anglo / Franco Split in Expansion Plans: An Early Read
African founders’ expansion plans split along linguistic lines. Anglophone Africans look to the US and UK, Francophone Africans to the EU, and Egypt heads to the Gulf. An early read on a small but consistent pattern.
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