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Government kick-start leads to German renaissance

International PerspectivesWhen Falk Strascheg, one of the doyens of early stage venture capital in Germany, co-founded Technologieholding in the late 1980s, it took him several years to raise even the meagre Fl 6m ($2.7m) of investment which allowed him to get going. Now his company has a team of 26 investment managers and its 1995 fund is showing a return of 130 per cent with several realisations still to come through....more

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