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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

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It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. billion in 2019. “I billion 2019, and Vista Equity Partners bought Acquia , the commercial company built on top of the open source Drupal project, for $1 billion also in 2019.

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A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem

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As of 2019, Singapore had over $19 billion in PE and VC assets under management, more than twice that of neighboring Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand combined. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem. So, how did Singapore’s startup ecosystem come to be?

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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meter coworking office space where majority of our portfolio companies and accelerator program companies sit on a daily basis. Through our coworking space, we are directly investing in our local ecosystem both supporting entrepreneurs and identifying rising entrepreneurs. meter coworking space.

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