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814 Ex-Google exec launches £43m AI venture fund

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Oscar Hornstein @ UK Tech News · 03/23/2026 05:27 EDT

Mahir Sahin, a former senior Google employee who spent almost 20 years at the company, has launched a new €50m (£43.3m) venture fund targeting European deep tech that will be needed to “move beyond current AI limitations”. London-based Cloudberry Ventures has a stated goal of preventing “IP strip-mining” of European technologies by US investors and ...

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