When in 2000 the Encinar brothers founded idealistic, the ecosystem startup In Spain it was as green as the background of the famous real estate portal. In these 25 years, the maturity of the sector has brought new companies, dozens of successes and has placed Spanish entrepreneurs and their companies in the global scene with successes such as Cabify, Glovo or more recently the application of Fever events
According to a study of Endeavor On the trajectory of the founders of the 100 major startups From Spain, people who have created these companies have also changed: they have more international experience, they are more techies And his professional career before reaching his great success has varied a lot. What remains is a fact that, for many, could be surprising given some myths around the sector: 94% have university training and 60% have formed in the public university. The two most successful universities have been the Polytechnic University of Catalunya and the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
That two ‘Polytechnic’ lead the ranking is no accident. If in the first era of the founders the consultants highlighted (Juan de Antonio of Cabify o Pablo Fernández From clicks they worked at BCG and Carlota Pi in McKinsey & Co), these have lost weight against engineers. Two thirds of the most recent founders have experience in technology, while the founders with experience in consulting firms have gone from 25% to 15% if the pre 2014 batch is compared with that of after that year.
The professional career has also turned around. Not only is there a profile with more experience abroad, but those who have already launched several companies, the so -called Entrepreneurs in series44% of the new niche compared to 23% of previous generations.
The other differential factor, indicates the study of the network of entrepreneurs, is that most are launched to found a company with previous experiences within the ecosystem. That is, the future entrepreneur no longer seeks a first job in a large company as usual (the first batch of founders is full of Extelephonic or bank employees and the aforementioned consultancies). Of the hundred entrepreneurs analyzed, more than half comply with this mold.