Record in sight for funding of European start-ups in 2013. - The funding of European start-ups could break records this year, but it will still not be enough to reduce the widening gap with the United States, according to the daily newspaper Les Échos, on the basis of data collected by Dow Jones Venture Source in the first quarter of 2014. These show that European start-ups raised $1.22 billion in the first three months of the year, a 27% increase on the same period last year and an...