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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

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Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. The median seed round is $500,000 (above the global average of $494,000) and a median Series A round for a startup is $2.4 What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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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 continues to have structural problems for startups: Credit is based on a company’s financial history, so loans are off-limits. However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital.

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

TechCrunch

Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Innovative.

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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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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. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? Would be happy to add proptech and agritech startups to our portfolio.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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