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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).

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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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How Zoox turned a failed Series C into the future

TechCrunch

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. The competition is more on a global basis, because even local startups will always be looking at global talent, from the region, Australia, India, China or beyond,” he added. “I

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

According to Dobson, it’s drawn quite a bit of attention from Samsung: In the next few days we will sign a contract with Samsung to develop an application for their global health cloud, this will see our application used by up to half a billion smartphone users worldwide. It also has a map of known defibrillator locations.

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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. Icommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. copyleft???

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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.

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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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