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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). Through a so-called ‘graduate liquidity pool’, all participants – including the student founders, local leaders and CEO mentors – share in the value created from each semester.

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

TechCrunch

As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. Only in founders from: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania or Hungary. We surveyed: Petra Kon?elíková elíková , partner, Nation1.vc.

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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. million people has a large student population that provides ready talent for the city’s startups.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. So this is something that we understand could be a point that [the text of the law better reflects] when it’s passed in parliament, because the point is to allow student entrepreneurs to start as many startups as they as they can.

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