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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa

TechCrunch

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. The startup ecosystem was growing but I could not fail to notice the problem of accelerators. “We

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Sequoia debuts Arc, a London/SV program to find and mentor outlier startups, backing each with $1M

TechCrunch

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. “Europe is so fragmented. .

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

TechCrunch spoke to Francisco Polo, Spain’s high commissioner overseeing delivery of the entrepreneurial strategy, to get the inside track on the plan to grow the startup ecosystem and find out which bits entrepreneurs are likely to see in action first. “With Renace in particular we want to help close the territorial gap.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B The 2020 Spencer Stuart Board Index finds that currently, in S&P 500 boards, women account for 28% of directors while minorities account for 20%. . (I founded Circle of Experts, an expert network which I sold to Evalueserve.).

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

For 25 years, Salyer led Accel Financial Staffing, until the sale of the company to key employees in the 3 rd quarter of 2020. On September 30, 2020, the long-term employees acquired the business, ensuring a bright future for many years to come. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma?