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Europe’s leading countries for VC
July 9, 2013Inspired by Richard Florida’s piece in The Atlantic Cities, America’s Leading Metros for Venture Capital, I decided to craft a comparable bubble chart for Europe’s VC activity in 2012. The European version of the map illustrates VC investment in all major European countries (excluding Russia and Turkey), with the amounts converted into US$ and indexed […]
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The 3 broken arrows of growth capital in France
June 11, 2013The other day during a stimulating conversation with five of French tech’s movers and shakers, the subject came up about the challenges facing high-potential tech firms in need of growth capital. Setting aside the Yahoo/DailyMotion debacle for a moment (which I fear will carry disastrous long-term consequences for cross-border m&a, one of the three ‘arrows’), […]