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Venture capital: black hole or blue sky?

The leader of the government's venture capital strategy steps down next year. Tim Hunter looks at what has been achieved.

Tim Hunter
Fri, 18 Sep 2015

When the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund’s flame-haired chief executive Franceska Banga got her feet under the desk, Helen Clark was still in her first term as prime minister and John Key was yet to enter Parliament.

When she steps down in 2016, she will have been in office 15 years – a

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Tim Hunter
Fri, 18 Sep 2015
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