Russell Buckley Joins UK Government To Bring About Silicon Valley In The UK

Today in interesting moves comes the news that serial entrepreneur-turned-investor Russell Buckley - who co-founded AdMob (which sold to Google) is joining the UK government to accelerate its policies around startups, mainly funding. Specifically, he's joining the UK Government?s Venture Capital Unit. The Unit, launched last year, is designed to help UK companies attract funding from abroad and thus help resolve the funding gap which often exists at early and mid-stages. The Unit is headed by veteran entrepreneur Chris Wade and embraces Clean Tech, Life Sciences and Hardware. Here's Russell's blog post on the matter:

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