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The mechanism governing startup formation is straightforward: compress the cost of building a first product and the founder pool grows.
Artificial intelligence has been doing that across the software stack for several years.
Germany's first-half 2026 data shows the effect in a single figure: 3,053 tech companies were founded between January and June, the highest count recorded for any comparable six-month window.
A study published July 7 from Berlin names AI as the primary reason.
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