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Guy Newey

Guy Newey

Justice

Oct 6, 2026

2:55
How healthy is the UK innovation sector in regards to energy transition? What's your view on that? I mean, you mentioned 730 million.
3:03
I was trying to work out what the perfect metaphor is.
3:07
As a middle-aged man, maybe this is just a bit too self-conscious, but I was thinking it's healthy but fragile.
3:12
So it's probably between 3,000 and 5,000 what are classified as high growth clean tech businesses in the UK.
3:21
And since 2010, they probably raised over 20 billion quick.
3:24
Now that covers a huge range of stuff.
3:28
That is clean transport, heat networks, all of those things.

9 MINS LATER

12:37
And just to get that role of private finance and your view from that space, I guess, is there kind of enough demand for that capital or is there enough places for capital to go into these innovation sectors or are people stepping back to wait to see how the transition evolves and answer those questions that you just made about the right product, the right market, the right team? What's your take on the state of private finance into these markets?

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