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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

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Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Respondents said they invest around 50% inside Czechia and 50% across Central and Eastern Europe, while some are more focused across CEE generally, with some percentage of the fund supporting startups that have scaled to the U.S. We surveyed: Petra Kon?elíková

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The Rise of the Rest Class of 2019

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Our pitch competition in the Space Coast featured startups from the Space Coast region and other rising cities from across the country whose core focus relates to space, drone, aviation technologies, or adjacent focus areas. What advice would you offer entrepreneurs in Orlando? Why did you launch your startup in your city?

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Put off by high taxes and paperwork in their home country, many Italian entrepreneurs moved to places like London in years past to startup. Microsoft has announced a $1.5

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

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Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? and Nomono.

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

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Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. JoyTunes, led by Yuval Kaminka has developed a music-learning platform that has skyrocketed in 2020. The upside is that companies that will develop a remote and simplified approach can reap gains from this time.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? When they return, young people like Morrison are finding that Atlantic Canadians have quietly built a robust startup ecosystem that has resulted in a dozen acquisitions to companies like IBM and Salesforce, the sum of which likely surpasses $5 million in cash and stock.

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Making sense of Klarna

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“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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