I'm delighted to share my 2022 report on the French tech ecosystem with 140 slides covering everything: general metrics, tech trends, funds investing in France, angels, unicorns, mafias, exits and to an outlook for 2023! Below are my favorite insights! ⬇️ docsend.com/view/xs3p9tbqd…

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A whole heap of leading UK VCs have expressed support for SVB. The list is too long to include everyone on the visual but suffice to say it's a pretty unified front.

In light of what's been happening, a roundup of some key stats on UK tech. 🧵 SVB UK is now HSBC Innovation Banking UK has 3,300 clients (via Financial Times). There are 6,369 active UK startups with min $500K funding. • UK startups employ 1.8M people • The UK startup ecosystem is collectively worth almost $1T

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Howdy Partner. Honoured to call Lina Zakarauskaite a colleague, collaborator, co-conspirator and cornerstone of the Stride_VC faction. Let’s go.⚡️ techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/lin…

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Two weeks ago, I said EU-Inc might need your help. That moment is now. 🥁 We need you to submit feedback to the European Commission on what startups need. To get you up to speed what happened since last time: The EU Parliament published their own suggestion how a pan-european

We burned $14M, were weeks away from bankruptcy. Today we have $25M ARR and are announcing a $58M Series A. All in a span of 1.5 years. Here's the story: