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Go global or grow local? The Kiwi startup quandary

NZ Entrepreneur

Founded in 2015, Niesh provides an app designed to meet the challenges of the modern university student, and now offers both a suite of services for brands to connect with the youth market and deals to make every student’s life easier. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany.

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Yieldstreet raises $100M as it mulls going public via SPAC, eyes acquisitions

TechCrunch

million since its 2015 inception. Existing backers Edison Partners, Soros Fund Management, Greenspring Associates, Raine Ventures, Greycroft and Expansion Capital also put money in the round, which brings Yieldstreet’s total raised to $278.5 ” What he did share is that Yieldstreet has funded nearly $1.9

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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. In 2015, Jose Mejia Oneto was an MD/PhD who left orthopaedic surgery residency to pursue an idea for a way to localize the delivery of chemotherapy.