Analysis

July 25, 2023

Little encouragement and no funding: why open source startup founders are leaving Europe

Europe has many talented open source developers, but turning their ideas into businesses is often frowned upon


In 2021, the Berlin-based team behind Coqui.ai — an open source startup offering AI-generated text-to-speech services — decided to reincorporate the company as a Delaware C-Corp. 

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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