Comparatively, venture capital of the silicon valley sort is hard to come by, from what I can see. There is also a weird preoccupation with the London startup

Comparatively, venture capital of the silicon valley sort is hard to come by, from what I can see. There is also a weird preoccupation with the London startup scene; politicians decided they were going to nurture it and help fund things there. Which is fine, but they ignored the Cambridge area which is where a lot of the actual innovative tech in the UK gets developed, in favour of (effectively) a bunch of cool-sounding app vendors.