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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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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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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? In doing so, they’re participating in an economic revival that could change the destiny of the depressed Atlantic region. Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone. Tell a friend.