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You're listening to Money Talks from the Economist, our weekly podcast on the markets,

the economy and the world of business.

I'm Ratchena Shanvog, finance editor at the Economist, and this week, the new age of

venture capital.

The business of funding startups is booming and is itself being disrupted by a flood of

both new capital and new competition.

Venture Capital is no longer embodied by Silicon Valley investing in its own backyard.

It is powering up and coming ideas across sectors and around the world.

And though all this investment brings its own risks, it holds the promise of ushering

in a new wave of global innovation.

Venture Capital has been one of the catalysts for American innovation over the past few

decades.

It's helped fuel the rise of household names like Apple, Google and more recently Moderna.

And the concentration of VC in and around Silicon Valley has helped America hang on to

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