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

The Next Web

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Image credit: Ralph Orlowski / Getty Images.

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

TechCrunch

Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup Minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Kaszek. I realized I could send a photo of my daughter to her grandparents in Croatia for free, and using only a phone number,” he told TechCrunch. To date, the company has raised a total of $27.5

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

Tank Top TV was at the demo day looking to raise £400,000 in seed round funding. Monetization of the platform is achieved in three ways: ad-funded access for free users, a premium subscription and in-app purchases. by 2016 “or will have been acquired for our discovery technology”. ? For example, here’s Narrato’s own from the event.

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How Zoox turned a failed Series C into the future

TechCrunch

Now, after helping Palantir scale up its senior talent (and pocketing some advisor shares for himself) he invests in the Palantir diaspora out of his fund. The long-time global financial hub will expect hundreds of new jobs in the next few years as ByteDance and Alibaba reportedly plan regional offices in the city-state.

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How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A

TechCrunch

The 2020 global freeze on leisure travel put a temporary pause on demand for short term luggage storage. But by summer 2020 there was a temporary unlocking as parts of Europe reopened to tourism — so Bounce focused its efforts on markets like Croatia at that point. in early funding later that year.

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9 investors, execs and founders discuss Zagreb’s startup potential

TechCrunch

Startups may not spring to mind when speaking about the beautiful country of Croatia. But Croatia’s entrepreneurs haven’t been quiet: Startups like Infobip and Rimac are significant local hero businesses now, and the region can boast of high-quality talent in the tech, automotive, manufacturing, and agtech spaces.

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6 investors and founders spotlight SaaS, B2B and medtech as Wroclaw’s hot startup sectors

TechCrunch

London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. We have a couple of funds that are actively looking for innovative companies to invest in.

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