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UK attracts record amount of tech funding in 2017

Open-access content Friday 5th January 2018 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

Britain attracted almost £3bn in venture capital investment to its technology sector in 2017 – almost four times the amount raised by closest competitor Germany.

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This was nearly double the £1.63bn invested in 2016, and more funding than France, Ireland and Sweden received combined. Read the full article on our Predictions site here

This article appeared in our January 2018 issue of The Actuary .
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