Why we’ll be seeing more VC growth-rounds for EU tech startups (led by Silicon Valley)

GUEST: Now that the VC crunch and tech bubble in Silicon Valley has been holding startups hostage, it’s time to stop overlooking the startup revolution that has been quietly taking place across the Atlantic.
While Europe continues to lag behind its louder and more belligerent neighbor in the volume of VC investments (in 2015, VCs invested 5.4x more money in the US than in Europe), it’s also the home to 16 of the world’s fastest growing unicorns, including Sweden-based Spotify,