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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 Digital health, education, B2B SaaS.

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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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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

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Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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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. Vaccination.

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

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Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. 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. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now?

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Making sense of Klarna

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In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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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. What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Zoomin Software.

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