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Would you warn against any state-owned fund, or the French ones in particular? For example, in the Netherlands, there's many "provincial development funds" (eg
by skrebbel 7y ago
Would you warn against any state-owned fund, or the French ones in particular?
For example, in the Netherlands, there's many "provincial development funds" (eg BOM, OostNL, InnovationQuarter), who generally have a pretty good, though somewhat slowish/bureaucreatic, reputation. But in the end they're all government owned one way or another.
- jacquesm 7y agoI am not aware of any of those ever blocking deals for such reasons as the one what stopped Yahoo! from acquiring DM from Orange. If you stifle the ability for such deals to be consummated you remove the oxygen from a lot of the lower levels as well.
- skrebbel 7y agoTrue! Your comment actually made me go through some exits from BOM (who have invested in us) and I saw a fair bunch that exited to non-EU owned buyers.