Matt Clifford is the co-founder and chief executive of Entrepreneur First, the five-year-old UK accelerator program, which has produced 75 startups since launch. One of their companies, Magic Pony was sold to Twitter for $150m just last month.

It is just the kind of company you might think would suffer in the immediate aftermath of last month's vote by the UK to leave the European Union. But apparently not. In fact, he had closed three seed investment deals since the result was announced.

Two weeks on from the referendum results, tech startups are swamped by uncertainty. The overwhelming majority – roughly 87pc according to a recent survey – were opposed to Brexit.

But European investors like Index Ventures and Local Globe insist they are remain bullish on London as a tech hub and will continue to actively invest there because of tax benefits, strong technical universities such as Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College, and the UK’s large English-speaking market – a combination that’s tough for other European cities to beat.