“VC firms, top quartile VC firms in the UK return 23%, right? It's exactly the same as the US.”
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Depledge: UK healthtech moves to US due to NHS procurement friction
“Most of the reason that our health tech companies leave and go to the US is not because they can't raise the money. It's because the NHS makes them jump through about a billion different hoops to get onto their, like, framework, and it's just much easier to go…”
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“There's 44,000 scale-ups in the UK, they're generating over a trillion pounds worth of economic output, they're scaling faster than anyone else, they're creating good jobs”
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“The BBB have made a commitment to look at IP lending, which I'm, I think as founders of businesses that build IP, that's quite good because we're usually asset light.”
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