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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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

TechCrunch

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. The state of Bahia is almost the size of France and has 15 million people.

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Korea’s biggest startup event COMEUP 2022 calling for promising startups to be ‘COMEUP Stars’

AsiaTechDaily

COMEUP Stars are promising startups that are bound to lead the global startup ecosystem and are hand-picked annually by professional judges consisting of well-known VCs and founders. 30 Rookie League and 40 Rocket League companies will be selected from a pool of startups.

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What are the advantages of stationing your startup in New York City opposed to Silicon Valley / SF?

Gust

The world’s fastest growing tech startup ecosystem. A much more tightly knit startup community, compared to the larger but more diffuse West Coast community. Access to many, many more world market centers (advertising, finance, fashion, media, food, etc.). What’s not to love??

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Daily Crunch: Xeneta raises $80M to build out its real-time analytics platform for shipping and air freight 

TechCrunch

Startups and VC. Meta Platforms is looking at India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem as it bolsters its bet on the metaverse. million to serve underbanked communities with its embedded finance platform, Jagmeet reports. A bank would still smell as sweet by any other Neem : Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5 Box, meet boat.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Automattic TC-1, federal startup grants, ‘getting s done day’

TechCrunch

At 16 years old, the company is growing into a major media player: Its purchase of Tumblr expanded its reach into social media, and WooCommerce, its open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress users, integrates with POS systems in the real world. Part 4: The future of remote work is text (remote work culture).

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