Graphcore founder and CEO Nigel Toon is set to launch a new growth-stage deeptech fund, following a bruising year for the sector in Europe that saw a number of darlings fall by the wayside.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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