Why Venture Capital Is a Mirror, Not a Compass

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

In the corridors of power, venture capital has become a shorthand for “the future”. VC data is clean, quantitative and internationally comparable. It arrives in dashboards and league tables, translating uncertainty into upward curves. When the charts point up and to the right, a collective sigh of relief follows: innovation is happening.

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