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Richard Gourlay

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Managing Partner, Sussex Place Ventures

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Sussex Place Ventures
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Managing Partner
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Managing partner
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Richard invests in businesses with strong patent-protectable technology. Richard has been managing venture capital funds and making venture capital investments since 1995 and has been MD at Sussex Place Ventures since 2007. After a short career with Citibank, financing ship owners, he spent 14 years as a journalist. The last 10 of these years he worked on the Financial Times as a foreign correspondent in Asia and latterly writing about the venture capital and technology start-up sectors. Richard has an Economics degree from London University.

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