Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:56 pm on 28 February 2017.
A group of London-based investors, Accelerate Me, are looking to create a new fund with £4 million of their own money, hopefully backed by £6 million of Welsh Government money, to back Welsh start-ups and create a home-grown version of the highly successful Start-up Chile accelerator programme. Does the leader of the house agree that this kind of approach, supporting indigenous businesses and connecting them with external capital and knowledge, should be at the heart of the Welsh Government’s new economic strategy? On that basis, would she urge her Cabinet colleagues to meet with the proposers of the idea?