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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. And he decided he wanted to be part of the 500Startups accelerator. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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The Heartbeat of Korean Gaming: Pangyo Techno Valley’s Evolution into a Cultural Epicenter

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A recent survey by the Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator of 1,642 businesses in the valley revealed that content-focused companies constitute about 10%, with 161 firms in total. Amid these strides, the 2022 White Paper on Korean Games by the Korea Creative Content Agency highlighted an 11.2% Startups aren’t left out.

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AppWorks closes third fund with $150M for Taiwan and Southeast Asia startups

TechCrunch

Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world. AppWorks’ total assets under management (AUM) is now $212 million.

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Niio announces $15M Series A following strategic partnership with Samsung Displays

TechCrunch

“Digital art has become an accepted, mainstream medium with the market accelerating largely due to the explosive growth of NFTs,” said Niio CEO and co-founder Rob Anders. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

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In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph. and Europe — launched EmPawa Africa , an outfit to accelerate the music careers of young artists.

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