DeepSAFE Technical Coordinator Tomasz Mazuryk explores the legal and tax fragmentation across 27 European jurisdictions that stifles innovation and drives premier deeptech startups to migrate to the United States. He highlights EU SCALE as a pragmatic, standardised solution designed to eliminate cross-border friction and rapidly accelerate early-stage investment timelines.

With nearly half of Europe’s unicorns migrating to the United States due to severe legal and tax fragmentation across 27 separate jurisdictions, the continent faces a critical drain on its deeptech innovation. This feature highlights how EU SCALE provides an immediate, standardised mechanism to eliminate cross-border friction and rapidly accelerate early-stage investment timelines.

As European deeptech increasingly pivots towards critical defence innovations, Brussels has formally acknowledged that the continent’s 27 fragmented tax systems actively drive top pioneers to the United States. To combat this bureaucratic gridlock and immediately streamline cross-border investment, EU SCALE provides a standardised mechanism designed to compress early-stage deal timelines and retain vital technology talent within Europe.

With a staggering 42 per cent of European unicorns migrating to the United States to escape crippling legal and tax fragmentation, the continent is facing a critical loss of its most valuable deeptech scale-ups. To reverse this drain and simplify cross-border funding, EU SCALE introduces a standardised investment mechanism designed to eliminate bureaucratic friction and rapidly accelerate early-stage deal-making.

How the European Union is actively countering the migration of its premier unicorns to the United States. Through the rollout of EU SCALE, the continent introduces a standardised, friction-free investment framework designed to anchor vital deeptech innovation securely within the European ecosystem.