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One hundred people crowded into a large room in east London.

That day was Monday morning.

They are all people who run companies.

They all want to find investors.

One person organized this meeting.

At the meeting, he asked everyone: "Do your investors like you?"

This sentence is the name of the meeting.

This year, investors gave British new companies more than 26 billion US dollars.

This is the year with the most in Britain.

But the money did not go to many companies.

Most of the money went to only a small number of companies.

In the first half of this year, a lot of money went to one kind of company; they do artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence lets computers learn by themselves and do things by themselves.

More than half of this money went to only eighteen companies.

One investor said that looking at a company now is much faster.

Before, it took a day to look; now a few minutes is enough.

There is also a person who does research; he also started a company.

This company had just started and already got 1.1 billion US dollars.

Before, no company in Europe had gotten so much money at one time.

People in universities are also starting companies.

But the money they got this year decreased by more than two-thirds.

There were only forty-four new companies coming out of universities.

There is also a person who used to be a police officer.

He also started an artificial intelligence company.

On his website, only one word was written: "Investigate".

Later, his company was worth 400 million US dollars.

In November, a very large American company spoke.

This company is called Sequoia Capital.

This company has some people in London.

Now, these people want to go back to the United States.

On the paper was written one sentence: "We are here, there is no need."