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this is a total non-sequitur given that London has always raised large amounts of VC money including pre-Brexit (quite naturally given that it's the largest cit
by Barrin92 5y ago
this is a total non-sequitur given that London has always raised large amounts of VC money including pre-Brexit (quite naturally given that it's the largest city after Istanbul or Moscow in Europe, if you count those). if you want to judge the impact of Brexit you need to evaluate the UK's performance relative to its previous performance, it was always the largest single VC recipient in Europe.
The continent has actually very rapidly caught up in terms of share of money raised over recent years. In 2020, VC funding in the UK only grew by 1.7% compared to 70% in Ireland, 25% in France, 11% in Germany, Scandinavia and so on. European share of the market is actually very quickly accelerating
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/hot-or-not-where-european-vc-funding-went-in-2020 https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/hot-or-not-where-europea...
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/european-vc-funding-h1-2021/ https://news.crunchbase.com/news/european-vc-funding-h1-2021...
- ghostwriter 5y ago> The continent has actually very rapidly caught up in terms of share of money raised over recent years. In 2020, VC funding in the UK only grew by 1.7% compared to 70% in Ireland, 25% in France, 11% in Germany, Scandinavia and so on. European share of the market is actually very quickly accelerating growing high from significantly lower numbers always looks better in terms of % increase
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