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VC investment grows innovative start-ups

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25 Nov 2013

Venture capital investment can help innovative start-ups, encouraging them to expand into new international markets and grow as companies.

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We caught up with Dr Julie Curran, of Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), at the EVCA Venture Capital Forum in Berlin.

In this video interview, Julie describes some of the great businesses SEP has backed, like Biovex, a private biotech company developing vaccines to treat and prevent cancer, and travel search website Skyscanne. And she also discusses how Edinburgh is fast becoming one of Europe's newest tech hubs.

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Many of the companies that we've backed have really gone on to achieve great successes and that's really in a variety of ways and both through creating shareholder value in commercial terms but also in the advances that they make whenever they are bringing these very Innovative products and services to the markets. I also think alongside that because they are fast growing businesses they're creating jobs they're creating good quality jobs and they're internationalizing so they're bringing those products and those services to um International markets which obviously is positive for them. Some of the ones that we've backed over the past 20 years things like kimridge Silicon radio which brought Bluetooth chip technology to the market a very interesting Healthcare business called bioex which was highly novel and developing new therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and then also most recently we've backed Skyscanner which is the fastest growing travel search company. You're absolutely right about the interesting hub that's developing in in Edinburgh and we think it's a really really good place to start a business it's a vibrant city it's developing a really good uh infrastructure I think for early stage companies.