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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. When Jose applied to YC, he had developed the technique in academia but hadn’t yet tried applying it to therapeutics in animals.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis. Jerusalem’s economy and therefore startup scene suffered after the second Intifada (the Palestinian uprising that began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005). billion (£7 billion), came from Jerusalem.