Germany raised $8.47 billion in venture funding in 2024, a 22% increase year on year, according to NGP Capital's DACH Startups Decoded report. Every Series A and B B2B SaaS company in the region now has some version of the same board conversation: we need a CRO. The problem is that most of those SaaS companies are about to hire the wrong one. According to Harvard Business Review research published in October 2024, the average CRO tenure globally is just 25 months, the shortest in the C-suite. 62% of companies see their revenue growth rate decline or stay flat in the first full fiscal year after a CRO change. In DACH B2B SaaS specifically, the failure pattern is more specific than the global data suggests. We've run this search enough times, including replacement Chief Revenue Officer searches, to know what's happening.

Most space tech CFO hires look right on paper and fail within 12–18 months. Not because of capability, but because the role is fundamentally misunderstood. European space tech attracted €1.5 billion in private investment in 2024, a 56% year-on-year jump, according to ESPI's annual Space Venture report, and the pace hasn't slowed. Funding grew by another 25% in 2025. That capital is benefiting space tech startups that are, in many cases, still run by founding teams which have never hired a senior finance leader before. The result is a space tech CFO market that is both undersupplied and increasingly mis-hired.