According to recent figures from PitchBook, American investors are injecting record amounts of cash into Britain's technology start-up businesses due to a lack of capital from elsewhere.
The research provider found that US venture capital funds - which focus specifically on start-ups and small businesses - invested $4.4bn (£3.4bn) into UK tech players in the first ten months of this year. That compares to just $4bn for the whole of 2018. Meanwhile, London was revealed as the leading European city for VC investment from US investors over the past five years, receiving a total of $12.7bn. Revealed: Winners of the Tax Efficiency Awards 2019/20 Berlin, the UK capital's nearest competitor, received just $6.5bn over the same period. On the one hand, PitchBook's figure...
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