From famine to feast, investment in European tech startups roars back


FILE PHOTO: Highland Europe co-founder and partner Fergal Mullen poses in Geneva, Switzerland in this handout photo taken on June 13, 2018. Oliver O'Hanlon/Handout via REUTERS/File photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - With Europe in coronavirus lockdown, venture capital fund manager Fergal Mullen told his investors in April he would find it hard to back a startup without first meeting its founders.

A couple of months later, the Geneva-based co-founder and partner of Highland Europe broke his own promise and invested in Meditopia, a mindfulness app with teams in Berlin and Istanbul that he got to know over some 40 calls on video app Zoom.

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