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Wise: Europe's next $100B tech giants will focus on AI, fintech, fashion
“They're going to go and build the third wave, which is the 10, fifty, hundred billion dollar companies. And they're obviously not going to be competitive with the types of companies built in San Francisco in the same fields, not in sort of the information sear…”
Wise: Balderton will invest in narrow AI applications, not general AI platforms
“So once again, I don't think we're going to make investments in AI companies as a whole, right? I don't think that's the thing, but I think companies which have already thoughtfully found ways to apply what have been recently Some significant breakthroughs in …”
Wise: Mobile gaming startups no longer require venture capital
“If you launch a mobile game today, there are rigorous data models, which basically mean you don't need venture capital anymore. You know that there'll be certain targets you need to hit, and some growth investor or someone else will buy you.”
Wise: Small, hyper-specialized VC funds will prove flawed in the long run
“And that's why just saying, hey, you know, I'm going to set up the best three-man team to do, you know, something really specific in venture is, is I think going to be flawed in the long run.”
Wise: Europe produced over 30 billion-dollar tech exits in 10 years
“Europe, if you look at the tops of billion-dollar tech exits, or unicorns, or whatever you want to call them in the last 20 years, there's been, or 10 years, rather, there's been over 30 coming out of Europe, and there's many more in the pipe.”
Wise: Top Silicon Valley VC returns dwarf best European fund returns
“The best returns of European venture funds are dwarfed by the very, very top funds in the Valley.”
Wise: UK has world's second-highest per-capita e-commerce purchasing rate
“Britain has got the highest purchase rate of e-commerce products per capita of anywhere in the world apart from South Korea, well ahead of the US.”
Wise: London VC is more heavily weighted toward FinTech than San Francisco
“Certainly in London, we are probably slightly more heavily weighted towards FinTech, for example, than we might be if we have a San Francisco fund.”
Wise: European VC fund count fell from 700 to 400 post-2008 crash
“There was 700 funds in Europe in 2007. After the crash, there were about 400.”
Wise: Crowdcube raised £1 million in 16 minutes on its platform
“The fastest crowdfunding campaign, I think, was done on Crowdcube itself for Crowdcube. I think they did a million pounds in 16 minutes.”
JustPark saw a 3x increase in app downloads during Crowdcube campaign
“Just Park, who did their crowdfunding campaign recently on Crowdcube, they actually saw a three X increase in the number of downloads of the Just Park app.”