Employee-count distributions for European and American companies

Beeswarm plot where each dot is one company, positioned by employee count on a logarithmic scale. European companies are shown in blue above the axis and American companies in black. — This comparison is based on reported employee counts for study companies and accepted direct competitors in Europe and the United States. Each dot is one company; companies without a reported count are not shown.

The data behind this chart

Company examples placed around the employee-count distribution
Region	Company	Employee band	Reported employees
Europe	Hyperping	0-1	1
Europe	Numista	2-5	5
Europe	Brandfetch	6-14	7
Europe	Publer	15-38	23
Europe	Flightradar24	39-99	91
Europe	HappyScribe	100-250	210
Europe	Kahoot!	251-630	450
Europe	SoundCloud	631-1584	1100
Europe	Klarna	1585-3980	3800
Europe	Wise	3981-plus	6000
United States	RSS.com	0-1	1
United States	SavvyCal	2-5	2
United States	Gimkit	6-14	8
United States	Kapwing	15-38	34
United States	Blooket	39-99	50
United States	FlightAware	100-250	130
United States	Quizlet	251-630	500
United States	ZipRecruiter	631-1584	1000
United States	Khan Academy	1585-3980	2300
United States	Google	3981-plus	188000

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Plain text

Convex Works (2026). Employee-count distributions for European and American companies. European software data study. https://convex.works/research/b2b-eu-data-systems/figures/company-size-swarm

BibTeX

@misc{convexworks2026companysizeswarm,
  author       = {{Convex Works}},
  title        = {Employee-count distributions for European and American companies},
  howpublished = {European software data study},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://convex.works/research/b2b-eu-data-systems/figures/company-size-swarm}
}

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