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Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol. 4

AsiaTechDaily

Register Japan unveiled its latest development on its “Startup Development Five-year Plan” started in November 2022. The plan aims to boost the Japanese startup ecosystem by investing 10 trillion yen, creating 100,000 new startups, and nurturing 100 unicorns by 2027.

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Extra Crunch roundup: finding GTM, China’s edtech clampdown and how to define growth

TechCrunch

Startups and investors are turning to micromobility subscriptions. “Amid the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murky path to profitability for shared electric micromobility, an increasing number of companies have turned to subscriptions,” Rebecca Bellan writes in a roundup about the future of micromobility.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Jumpspeed invests exclusively in pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the Jerusalem startup ecosystem. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

TechCrunch

Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup? Both micromobility and telemedicine seem very crowded at this point, and we believe the current market leaders in these sectors will become the winners. What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about?