The University of Cambridge has long been one of Europe's most reliable founder factories, producing some of Europe's best-known tech companies, from chip giant Arm to AI-powered cybersecurity scaleup Darktrace.
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The University of Cambridge has long been one of Europe's most reliable founder factories
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