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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: 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.”