The European start-up scene is in rude health but European venture capital has never had it harder. That’s the conclusion from reading an annual barometer of the European tech scene, which also found that the sector now employs 2.3 million people (up from one million just five years ago) and is now actually attracting workers from the US rather than exporting them.  Of course, there are lots of nuances in the 258-page State of European Tech (SoET), the annual deep dive into the continent’s technology start-up scene, which is published by VC firm Atomico. Now in its ninth year, it’s…

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