Antoine Nussenbaum, co-founder of Felix Capital, discusses the expansion of the UK tech and venture capital ecosystem in late 2015.
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“There's much more new VCs coming in the market in the UK. We've seen a few last year with Arcef, Mosaic, and so on, and there will be much more in, in the next few months.”
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