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What started with a viral LinkedIn blogpost by investor Andreas Klinger quickly turned into a Europe-wide debate and into a broader movement backed by founders, investors, and startup organizations across the continent. 🌍

describes the idea of an optional, standardized company framework that could reduce legal complexity, simplify investment processes, and give startups a clearer path to international growth.

🎤At this year’s SpinLab Investors Day, Clark Parsons, CEO of the European Startup Network and Advisor at United Founders, took up this debate in his keynote “EU Inc – Goals and Status Quo.” He outlined why Europe’s fragmented legal and investment landscape remains a major barrier and why a shared framework could help give European founders a fairer shot.

In our latest blog article, we recap the origins of the EU Inc movement, key points from Parsons’ keynote, and the road ahead for Europe’s startup ecosystem.

📸 📷 Eric Kemnitz

A Leipzig-based company by 2041. 📈🏙️

This is the vision of Eric Weber, founder of SpinLab for .
Why are there still no DAX headquarters in Saxony or in much of Eastern Germany? 🤔Globally leading companies anchored in a region create far more than jobs. They attract talent and investment, strengthen innovation ecosystems, build strong supplier networks and generate long-term prosperity.

In the “Leipzig Visionen” series by the .de , Eric shares his perspective on why our region has the ingredients to grow globally successful companies and what political and structural conditions are needed to turn the idea of a DAX company in Leipzig from a vision into reality.