While Silicon Valley firms are offering a lot of money to their U.K. staff, they pay their U.S. staff a lot more. “There’s an awful lot of incredulity from U.S.-based tech folk that London pay is so low by comparison to the West Coast,” said Buckley.
[The DeepTech 50](http://www.techlondonadvocates.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DeepTech.pdf)
[VC Slams Silicon Valley Heavyweights For Poaching London’s Top Startup Talent](https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/06/06/vc-slams-silicon-valley-heavyweights-for-poaching-londons-top-startup-talent/#2473329b7bb8)
> While Silicon Valley firms are offering a lot of money to their U.K. staff, they pay their U.S. staff a lot more. “There’s an awful lot of incredulity from U.S.-based tech folk that London pay is so low by comparison to the West Coast,” said Buckley.
[Tighter rules on foreign investment have China in their sights](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3371/Tighter%2Brules%2Bon%2Bforeign%2Binvestment%2Bhave%2BChina%2Bin%2Btheir%2Bsights%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
Britain seeks to clamp down on Beijing’s pursuit ofsensitive technologies
## Success stories
[UK start-up Graphcore aims to dominate AI chip industry](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3591/UK%2Bstart-up%2BGraphcore%2Baims%2Bto%2Bdominate%2BAI%2Bchip%2Bindustry_C2_A0%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
Bristol-based designer projects 1bn of revenues within 5 years - aug 2019
[How London became a global tech hub](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3590/How%2BLondon%2Bbecame%2Ba%2Bglobal%2Btech%2Bhub%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
Entrepreneurs say capital has flourished despite lukewarm support from Downing Street
- game industry in UK??? worldwide, yes
[Fame and ‘Fortnite’ — inside the global gaming phenomenon](https://s3.amazonaws.com/knowen-production/big_attachments/7ba5ae2258a8fa70bfba9d2cb73acdda/Fame+and+%E2%80%98Fortnite%E2%80%99+%E2%80%94+inside+the+global+gaming+phenomenon+_+Financial+Times.pdf)
It’s captivated a generation of teens. Now it’s making millionaires of its star players
## [London’s startup ecosystem at a glance](https://www.eu-startups.com/2018/11/londons-startup-ecosystem-at-a-glance/)
- [The UK’s Best Tech Accelerators and Incubators](https://www.etondigital.com/the-best-tech-accelerators-and-incubators-uk/) 2015 Eton Digital
[The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2017](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/06/07/best-accelerators-of-2017/#6f3e529c10cb) worlwide/mostly USA
[HAX Accelerator (formerly HAXLR8R) is a seed accelerator focused on hardware startups based in Shenzhen and San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAX_Accelerator)
- [Which Startups Will You See in London?](https://medium.com/startup-grind/which-startups-will-you-see-in-london-a15a6df9ffb3)
https://www.crowdcube.com/