Morning. As London Tech Week kicks off, we've taken a look at how the UK is faring so far in 2022 - in short, not bad at all.
What's happening in global VC?
The Nasdaq is officially in a bear market, tech stocks are hurting, and the pullback in cascading into VC.
But while VC is slowing globally, we're still well above pre-pandemic levels, and 2022 has already reached the full year total for 2020. So what's going on in venture? And what's yet to come?
π Emerging ecosystems: Flanders is health & biotech-rich ecosystem, worth 1.5x that of the notoriously entrepreneurial Baltic States combined (equivalent populations).
π Edtech x Fintech: alternative education and democratising learning, the higher ed and student financing startups coming of age.