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Next Level Entrepreneurship: Investing in a New Generation of Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

“We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc.

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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The corporate venture comeback: What startups considering CVC need to know

TechCrunch

In the past decade, the majority have reacted to and mirrored changes in the startup space, helping to raise the bar for CVC investments. At Wayra, we’ve adapted our strategy a number of times to ensure that we evolve as the startup ecosystem does.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem. The KSGC program became quite popular in the subsequent years, with 49 teams participating in 2017, 73 teams in 2018, and 36 teams in 2019.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

.’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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9 investors, execs and founders discuss Zagreb’s startup potential

TechCrunch

Startups may not spring to mind when speaking about the beautiful country of Croatia. Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. Agrivi, Repsly.

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‘Insane’ — UK tech reacts to government moves that might hand UK startups contract to Barclays Bank

TechCrunch

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. tech startup scene. It’s since gone on to run myriad programmes connecting tech startups and scale-up with each other and with investors in the U.K. s tech startup ecosystem.

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