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Founder Institute doubles down on Europe, now runs 10 startup accelerator programs continent-wide

The Next Web

The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). In addition, the Founder Institute is also testing new programs in Barcelona, Lisbon, London, Zurich, and Warsaw, and will be hosting several free events across Europe this autumn.

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YC grad Wasp land $1.5M seed to help developers build web apps faster

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Wasp CEO Matija Sosic said that he started the company in Croatia in 2019 with his twin brother Martin because they wanted to make it easier for developers to stitch together a group of services into a full stack web application.

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iCommons: Artist Residency - Exploring Open Content

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The residency will take place during the Icommons Summit 2007 in Croatia. The following topics will be investigated during the residency, and a workshop will be run by the artists at the Summit, based on the following themes: Different working modes: how do artists work with open content in their medium? copyleft???

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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

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In other words, Minka is an open network that aims to allow organizations such as banks and clearinghouses to “publish” and move money in real time by exposing their “closed, outdated core systems” to the web. This makes it the largest open banking project in the region, according to Rozic. “We

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

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For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Cubie: a free messenger for creative users to chat and draw.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Monetization of the platform is achieved in three ways: ad-funded access for free users, a premium subscription and in-app purchases.

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Croatia’s Gideon Brothers raises $31M for its 3D vision-enabled autonomous warehouse robots

TechCrunch

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Gideon Brothers founders.

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