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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

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Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. Most Latin American companies reaching unicorn status and going public now were started around 2012. Investors should look for younger markets.

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Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay

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Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson was a seed investor in KeyPay in 2012. Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson, was a seed investors in KeyPay in 2012. New Zealand’s startup ecosystem poised to grow more ‘tall poppies’

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Just How Troubled is the Bay Area Startup Scene?

Tomasz Tunguz

There’s a prevailing narrative that the health of the Bay Area startup ecosystem faces challenges. San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b.

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Coral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan

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The Japanese startup ecosystem is striking its stride now compared to 9 years ago, Riney said. As Riney and Sawayama started investing in seed and early-stage startup companies back in 2012, the startup world was a black box in the country, according to Riney.

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Gener8tor is the biggest startup accelerator you’ve never heard of…

TechCrunch

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Apply to pitch your startup at the TechCrunch Live Columbus event!

TechCrunch

On June 1 our crew is hosting three hours of panels, talks and pitches with founders, investors and startups from Columbus, Ohio. This extended event is designed to highlight the growing startup ecosystem emerging from America’s midwest. Raising startup capital (3:30 pm EDT). Sean Lane , Olive CEO.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Adam Arredondo

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I don’t know another ecosystem builder who works as tirelessly on building a community like Adam. I’ve had the honor of knowing Adam (aka Dondo) since 2012 when he was a young entrepreneur and the darling child of the then nascent StartupKC community. What others are saying about Adam.