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Tech City | The digital capital of europe. Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) East London Tech City. East London Tech City (also known as Tech City or Silicon Roundabout) is a technology cluster located in Central and East London, United Kingdom.[1][2][3] It broadly occupies the part of London's East End between Old Street (the boundary of Central and East London) and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford,[1] with its locus in the Shoreditch area. It is the third-largest technology startup cluster in the world after San Francisco and New York City.[4] Development of the cluster has been encouraged by both local and national government, with the goal of creating a cluster comparable to Silicon Valley in the United States.[1][5] Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel and McKinsey & Company are among the companies that have invested in the area.[6] City University London, Imperial College London, Loughborough University and University College London are academic partners in projects based in the cluster.[4][7] Name[edit] Old Street Roundabout History[edit] Participants[edit] Responses[edit]

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