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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

TechCrunch

The program is a continuation of 500 Global’s partnership with Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) and the Bank of Georgia to bring one of the first startup accelerator programs to the country Indeed, since 2016, there have been three batches with a total of 43 startups out of the region, such as Payze (Georgia), Cargon (Georgia), Finmap (..)

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Free E-guide: The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Business Development

NZ Entrepreneur

The data suggests half as much funding in 2018-19 than in the peak time of 2016-17 (Alex McCauley, CEO, StartupAUS, 2019). This decline has also become evident in startup accelerator programs shifting their focus on later-stage scale-ups that provide higher returns.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2016, I was looking for my next big thing after 25 years of operating a marketing business. To learn more about the MyEO DealExchange DX22 event, we asked Alan Peterson (EO Orange County), champion of the MyEO DealExchange premier group, about the DX22 event.

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Last day to join K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022

AsiaTechDaily

The program, which is also supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), is organised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA). The startup accelerator program, launched in 2016, supports foreign startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the international markets.

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South Korea’s largest accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 invites applications

AsiaTechDaily

Korean government’s accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), is all set to invite applications from world entrepreneurs for its 2022 chapter.

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Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app

TechCrunch

million Series A round in 2016 (Learn Capital and Prosus Ventures). Sololearn was founded and is currently led by Yeva Hyusyan, who tells me that the impetus for the company came out of a previous project (a startup accelerator) she worked on while working for Microsoft in the country.

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Dreamit Invests in TrekIT Health

Dream It

The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. About Dreamit Ventures Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund and startup accelerator. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: Urbantech, Healthtech, or Securetech.

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