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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.”

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Lok Yek Soon, Founder of Awesome Ventures: Empowering Impactful Startups for Lasting Change  

AsiaTechDaily

At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem. Fundraising takes up more time and energy than you think. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas.

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

TechCrunch

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. More posts by this contributor.

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. EverActive is an IoT startup with offices in Santa Clara, Charlottesville (VA), and Ann Arbor. EverActive. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award.

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6 Miami-based investors share their views on the region’s startup scene

TechCrunch

There is an excitement and energy in Miami right now, and I believe it’s here to stay! Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystem roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca.

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

TechCrunch

Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystems roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. There are a lot of great developers in Prague, good energy and enough success stories and role models to follow. Vaccination.

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PH venture investor Kickstart Ventures commits to expand investments globally

AsiaTechDaily

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. Ambitious and promising startups abound, but none managed to scale as fast or as large as those in neighboring countries. on its first year.