Index Ventures has opened an office at Scrutton Street in London's Shoreditch, which means as well as having a corporate office in the appropriately minted Mayfair, Saul Klein and team can "embed" themselves in the startup scene.
Index Ventures' partner Saul Klein. Photo by Joi on Flickr. Some rights reserved
Index will be moving in with Moo, Soundcloud, Tweetdeck, Groupspaces, Lightbox and SparkPR. Klein said in a blogpost: "Our intention is to do something that gets us even closer to the teams we work with, hold open office hours to meet some of the new companies we don't, and generally embed ourselves in what is one of the hottest startup zones in Europe."
Index also opened a San Francisco office in January. As Mike Butcher pointed out on TechCrunch EU, Index isn't the first VC to do this. Angel-backed work space White Bear Yard opened in Clerkenwell in July 2009 and Seedcamp – once rather unfairly described to me as "UK tech's Pop Idol for startups" – is also rumoured to be moving east.
