EU Inc, a proposed single pan-European legal entity, could ensure our most innovative start-ups choose Europe over Delaware, says DC Cahalane. As a former founder who spent years navigating Europe’s regulatory maze before becoming a VC, I’ve watched countless brilliant European start-ups relocate to Delaware rather than scale across 27 different legal systems. Dublin already serves as the European headquarters for Google, Meta, Microsoft and countless others, employing more than 378,000 people in US tech companies alone. EU Inc could enable Irish start-ups to scale across Europe as easily as their Silicon Valley counterparts scale across America. Most importantly, we need to recognise this moment for what it is: Europe’s greatest opportunity to build a unified tech ecosystem that can compete globally.