Six out of the eleven startups that were recently accepted into TechStar’s first international program in London have a financial angle, Jon Bradford, Managing Director of TechStars London, tells me over a pub lunch in the London neighborhood of Clerkenwell, down the road from TechStar’s new office space. Beyond the financial slant — which is a unique focus for London’s emerging tech startup scene — there’s a variety of other little differences between the inaugural London class, and the ones that have gone through TechStar’s 3-month mentorship and equity-investment program over the past seven years in cities across the U.S. including Boulder, Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York and Seattle.
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