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South Korea’s largest accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 invites applications

AsiaTechDaily

Every year, South Korea opens its doors, inviting global startups and entrepreneurs to develop and grow their businesses in the region. The startup accelerator program, launched in 2016, supports foreign startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the international markets.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2016, I was looking for my next big thing after 25 years of operating a marketing business. It’s an incredibly valuable event for both EO Accelerators and EO members with startups that want to attract investments in addition to EO members who are looking for the right investment opportunity. Who can attend DX22?

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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

TechCrunch

European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Having said that, accelerators still have a role to play in Europe’s emerging ecosystem.

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Last day to join K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022

AsiaTechDaily

Register Today, May 31, 2022, Tuesday, is the last day for startups to apply for the biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government – K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) 2022. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? It will be held for 3.5

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Free E-guide: The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Business Development

NZ Entrepreneur

The data suggests half as much funding in 2018-19 than in the peak time of 2016-17 (Alex McCauley, CEO, StartupAUS, 2019). This decline has also become evident in startup accelerator programs shifting their focus on later-stage scale-ups that provide higher returns.

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The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day

TechCrunch

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Unlike YC, 500 Global has geographic-specific accelerator programs, similar to Techstars, with focus on areas like Aichi, Japan, Cambodia, and Alberta, Canada. But the company, which was founded in 2016, has raised $2.4

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Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app

TechCrunch

million Series A round in 2016 (Learn Capital and Prosus Ventures). Sololearn was founded and is currently led by Yeva Hyusyan, who tells me that the impetus for the company came out of a previous project (a startup accelerator) she worked on while working for Microsoft in the country.

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