{"id":16690,"date":"2025-09-19T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1414903"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:00:41","slug":"opinion-europes-vcs-must-embrace-risk-or-resign-the-ai-era-to-us-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16690","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Europe\u2019s VCs must embrace risk \u2014 or resign the AI era to US control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2023%2F08%2FUntitled-design-9-1.jpg&#038;signature=e5ee583938a8a8e2c7f54839e2a3da8e\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>Europe\u2019s AI startups are losing ground to the US \u2014 and their own investors are to blame. Only 5% of global venture capital is raised in the EU, according to the European Commission. The US, by contrast, attracts more than half, while China takes 40%. Yet Europe isn\u2019t capital-poor: households save \u20ac1.4tn a year, nearly twice as much as in America. Still, very little of that money finds its way into startups, despite a plethora of incentives like the UK\u2019s EIS tax relief for business angels.\u00a0\u00a0 Even when funding is available, Europe\u2019s venture capital firms are slow and cautious. Funds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/vcs-holding-back-european-ai-startups?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/vcs-holding-back-european-ai-startups\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s AI startups are losing ground to the US \u2014 and their own investors are to blame. Only 5% of global venture capital is raised in the EU, according to the European&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}