In Europe, Putting the Adventure into Venture Capital

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Campbell, Matfhew y Chris Nicolson [2012], “In Europe, Putting the Adventure into Venture Capital”, Business Week, New York, 8 de noviembre, http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-11-08/in-europe-putting-the-ad...

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Business Week
Fecha de publicación: 
Jueves, Noviembre 8, 2012
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The life of a European venture capitalist is usually pretty civilized, punctuated by trips to the converted warehouses of London's trendy Silicon Roundabout neighborhood or Berlin's stately Prenzlauer Berg district, where entrepreneurs swap ideas in Vietnamese restaurants and faux-dive coffee shops. Despite Europe's debt turmoil and economic slowdown, European venture firms raised E4.85 billion ($6.2 billion) last year, an increase of 50% over 2010, according to the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association. That money is helping drive up valuations of companies in traditional tech hubs such as London, Berlin, and Stockholm, spurring venture firms to search from Tallinn to Istanbul for promising firms at reasonable prices. The scramble for startups is also taking venture investors to Turkey.