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Packback Announces Strategic Investment from PSG Equity

HPA

Packback’s proprietary AI technology provides inquiry-based online discussion and long-form writing support. Packback’s AI-enabled platform helps students build and master foundational skills such as critical thinking, writing, and research. Since HPA led Packback’s Seed Round in 2015 , the company has empowered over 1.5M

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem.

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

Startup Catalyst

QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. We could see that there was value in supporting students across the university to participate in this event. Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple.

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Can Europe compete in the quantum ‘space race’?

TechCrunch

China’s efforts have been ongoing since around 2015, when the Edward Snowden revelations prompted anxiety over the extent of U.S. This motivated France to develop and support a national supercomputer industry. intelligence activities. Anxious about American capabilities, Beijing intensified its focus on quantum communications.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

When they return, young people like Morrison are finding that Atlantic Canadians have quietly built a robust startup ecosystem that has resulted in a dozen acquisitions to companies like IBM and Salesforce, the sum of which likely surpasses $5 million in cash and stock. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital. It has also launched two different acceleration projects aimed at supporting SMEs and startups with mentoring, networking and support services. .:

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

I wasn’t particularly brilliant at or inspired by the role, but then I worked with my first startup client and was instantly seduced by the energy and audacity of that project. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. It was also one of the hardest.

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