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Gener8tor is the biggest startup accelerator you’ve never heard of…

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For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

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Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008.

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Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market

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Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. I talked about Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast recently in the context of two high-profile startup failures there, Ford- and VW-backed Argo AI and robotic vertical farming outfit Fifth Season.

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

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European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Having said that, accelerators still have a role to play in Europe’s emerging ecosystem.

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

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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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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 is accepting applications from global startups till May 31

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Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Thriving Startup Infrastructure: Korea is a country that has 18 unicorn startups. trillion. trillion won (US$6.4

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

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The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm.

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