Founder compensation report for European startups 2025

Creandum has released Founder Compensation 3.0, its now annual report providing data on founder compensation across European startups. It’s based on data from 688 startups (across Bootstrapped, Pre-seed, Seed, Series A and Series B & beyond) and is a good benchmark when deciding on compensation.

There are several interesting data points, but if highlighting one it would be the average and median salary per funding amount (which is a decent proxy for size). It looks like the average (and median) compensation is around 75,000-100,000 euros for pre-seed and seed startups (less than 10 million euros raised), with Series A being a little above 100,000 euros and then it increases with size.

Author: Henrik Torstensson

Partner at Alliance VC. Investing in Nordic early-stage tech startups.

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