UK is the tech start-up centre of Europe – research
A new report from Tech Nation has crowned the UK as the European hotspot for technology start-ups, and fourth worldwide for scale-up investment after US, China and India.
Jamie Davies
May 16, 2019
4 Min Read
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A new report from Tech Nation has crowned the UK as the European hotspot for technology start-ups, and fourth worldwide for scale-up investment after US, China and India.
While the US led the rankings by a considerable margin, the UK managed to attract 5% of global high-tech scaleup investment, with capital investments in UK firms topping £6.3 billion for 2018. Digging down into the details, Tech Nation estimate the fintech firms are doing even better, attracting £4.5 billion of investment between 2015 and 2018, with the UK leading the world.