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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. This makes it the largest open banking project in the region, according to Rozic. “We We aim to connect the world’s balances through the web using shared, connected ledgers,” he said.

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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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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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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. Launching first in the UK, Bulgaria, Germany and Croatia, iHelp is currently looking for £500,000 to expand its network and build into new markets.

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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 What are you most excited by?

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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. You should see a suggested action of “Open App” to build your new shortcut. Now, you’ll be prompted to set up a new “Open App” shortcut. Next to where it says “Open,” click on “App” to search for the X app. Select that.

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