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On Monday morning, an office in east London was packed with people.

They came here to meet investors.

The event was called 'Is your dream investor into you?'

The person organizing the event is Sameer Nusrat.

He works at a company.

This company helps people who want to start companies find people willing to give money.

This year, British startups have received a lot of money.

Investors have put in a total of over 26 billion US dollars.

This is more than in any previous year.

Although there is more money, the number of companies receiving money is fewer than before.

Most of the money went to one place: companies working on artificial intelligence.

In the first half of this year, nearly three-quarters of the money went to AI companies.

And this money only landed on a very small number of companies.

There is a new AI company.

This company had just started looking for money when it received 1.1 billion US dollars.

This is the largest early-stage investment of its kind in Europe.

James Wise is an investor.

He says AI has made looking at companies simpler.

What used to take a day to research can now be done in minutes.

So he no longer has to look slowly one by one.

He can first go to the most famous people.

Money is thus becoming more and more concentrated.

But on the other side, new companies coming out of universities are different.

They are finding it increasingly difficult to get their first round of money.

In the first half of this year, this kind of first-round money fell by 68.3 percent.

A large company called Sequoia Capital decided to do something.

It will close its own office in London.

Sequoia Capital also wrote a document.

The document says they don't think they need to have people here.

It wants to put people in Silicon Valley.

That place is closer to the people working on AI.

There are also founders who are not very satisfied with investors.

The boss of a large British financial company said something.

He said many investors nowadays are like cheerleaders.

They only shout from the sidelines and don't really help out.

Later he started his own investment company and invested his own money.

In London, some also say investors need to become more useful.

Otherwise, one day, it will be the investors who are left behind.