CCIA-backed study says DMA drained European startup funding, not a Kill Zone

A CCIA Research Center study of 2,276 European venture-backed firms found no rise in EU IPOs since the Digital Markets Act and a 37 percent fall in venture funding from 2022 to 2024, leading chief economist Trevor Wagener to call the "Kill Zone" rationale a myth.

Reported Opinion AI-drafted CCIA Europe press release, 18 March 2026

What the source does not establish. Does not establish that the DMA caused the funding fall; it is CCIA's own correlation-based study.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. law: industry-funded study argues DMA enforcement dried up EU startup funding. European Sovereignty Index

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