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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch. companies working toward their seed round.

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Post-pandemic shifts means Patch will take co-working to UK small towns and suburbs

TechCrunch

The head of product will be Paloma Strelitz , formerly co-founder of Assemble, a design studio that won the 2015 Turner Prize. Fforde is a former Entrepreneur First founder and employee who has held various roles in early-stage tech companies in London and San Francisco. Grays Yard.

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Maine’s Coworking Development Fund

EntreWorks Consulting

Our latest edition of EntreWorks Insights examined the power of place, i.e., how community gathering places can help build social capital and promote economic development. It’s also creating a statewide network so that space managers and developers can learn from one another and share ideas.

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Korea’s leading accelerator program, K-Startup Grand Challenge’s alumni startups thriving in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Soobin Choi, who worked as an intern for Founders Lair during KSGC 2021 helped the startup in connecting with the Korean market and has now been hired as their business development head in Korea ProSpace, IoT, Big Data, Singapore ProSpace Digital workplace platform ‘ProSpace’ was one of the top 30 teams at the KSGC 2021.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck. The narrative of the death of the coastal region became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then, during the pandemic, the narrative drastically changed.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015.

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i2E Receives 2024 Excellence in Economic Development Award from IEDC

Innovation 2 Enterprise

i2E Receives 2024 Excellence in Economic Development Bronze Award from the International Economic Development Council IEDC’s annual Excellence Awards honor the economic development organizations, government entities, initiatives, and programs that have demonstrated consistent, exemplary performance in the profession i2E, Inc.