CWL NEWS ARCHVE

This is the CWL News and Funded Project News Archive. It draws an informative picture on which stories relevant to the creative industries were happening during the AHRC-funded period of Creativeworks London between 2012 and 2016.

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Google launches new venture fund for European start-ups

Google is launching a venture capital fund to invest in promising European technology companies.

BBC reports the $100m (£58m) fund will “invest in the best ideas from the best European entrepreneurs”, according to Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, overseeing the project.

“We believe Europe’s start-up scene has enormous potential.”

The new operation will be based near London’s Silicon Roundabout start-up district. But Google is open to further geographic expansion in the future.

“We’ve seen compelling new companies emerge from places like London, Paris, Berlin, the Nordic region and beyond – SoundCloud, Spotify, Supercell and many others,” Mr Maris writes in a blog to announce the new fund.

Read the full article on the BBC website.

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Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.