Analysis

July 23, 2021

Should the new UK £375m ‘Breakthrough’ fund back startups or scaleups? 

VCs are divided over where deeptech funding should be deployed.


Maija Palmer

9 min read

The £375m ‘Breakthrough’ fund unveiled by the UK government earlier this week is aimed at supporting deeptech companies and turning the UK into a “science superpower”. And it’s all part of the UK’s plan to usher in an “age of entrepreneurship” in the world’s fifth-largest economy.

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