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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. In an interview, CEO and co-founder Domagoj Rozic described Minka as “a seamless payment network built from the ground up.” Image Credits: Minka. That wasn’t the original plan.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

So, for example, if you’re reading your favorite newspaper and see an interesting article you’d like to share with someone – or across a social network – you just need to scan the paper with the app and it will launch the digital version for sharing. In finding that solution, his team created iHelp – a community driven emergency network.

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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 will have more and more global companies grown from Wroc?aw’s Kamil Rudnicki, CEO, Timecamp.

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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. It was a gamble and not easy but now we can say it paid off!

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

Only in founders from: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania or Hungary. We don’t think so, local network is important. Cross Network Intelligence. How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? More than 50%?

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Yaccarino will be leaving her role as chairman of Global Advertising & Partnerships at NBCU. X opens up its ad revenue sharing program globally The company announced its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is now available for eligible creators globally. X also changed its App Store tagline from “Let’s talk.”

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

The ChatGPT app for iOS is now available to users in 11 more countries — Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and the UK. The announcement spurred a 10x increase in new downloads for Bing globally, indicating a sizable consumer demand for new AI experiences. More to come soon!

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