{"id":123576,"date":"2020-11-30T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-backs-new-european-venture-fund\/"},"modified":"2020-11-30T21:30:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:30:52","slug":"ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-backs-new-european-venture-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-backs-new-european-venture-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt backs new European venture fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt backs new European venture fund<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/eric-schmidt-european-fund.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Former Google boss Eric Schmidt has just plowed cash into a British-based venture capital fund.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old tech billionaire, who is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus in order to obtain an EU passport, just invested an undisclosed sum in a $111 million fund from London-headquartered VC firm Firstminute Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt is one of several tech executives backing Firstminute. Founded in 2017 by Lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman and former Goldman Sachs analyst Spencer Crawley, Firstminute primarily invests in European companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, gaming, e-commerce and biotech.<\/p>\n<p>Investors include RTI Capital Partners, Chinese tech giant Tencent, venture firm Atomico and private equity firm Vitruvian. The founders of big data firm Palantir, gaming firm Supercell and e-commerce platform Zalando have also backed Firstminute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEuropean <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> is reaching escape velocity, and it\u2019s fantastic to enable so many global serial entrepreneurs to give their experience to the next generation,\u201d Hoberman said in a statement Monday. \u201cSeed venture investing is attracting ever higher quality backers which will help more founders succeed.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The 65-year-old tech billionaire, who is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus in order to obtain an EU passport, just invested an undisclosed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/eric-schmidt-european-fund.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82193,79332,26867,28340,26293,71745],"class_list":["post-123576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-30-20","tag-cyprus","tag-eric-schmidt","tag-europe","tag-google","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}