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On my way to Zagreb!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

November 26, 2007 I’m going to Zagreb, Croatia to be at Aspiration’s Open Translation event. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology On my way to Zagreb! I’m really looking forward to it.

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

TechCrunch

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. Minka has about 30 employees, with its product and tech team located in Croatia and support and sales staff in Colombia. Payments infrastructure as a service is unusual for LatAm.

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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. Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? What are the tech investors like in Wroclaw?

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Rimac reveals the Nevera, a 1,900-horsepower electric hypercar

The Verge

A big part of that price tag is Nevera’s lavish tech. Each buyer will even be “invited to Croatia to design his or her car to their exacting requirements,” Rimac says. Of course, very few people will have to worry about whether they can properly pilot a Nevera. Rimac is only making 150 of them, and they’ll each start around $2.4

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Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants

TechCrunch

The company is live in 23 European markets and plans soon to expand to Croatia, Hungary and Sweden. Focused primarily on merchants, Viva Wallet is a prime example of the kind of tech business that might help some of these critical businesses recover. “We The funding is notable in part because of who is doing the investing.

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

TechCrunch

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. Co-founder and CEO Cody Candee admits business “completely froze” for the first three months of the pandemic.

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

TechCrunch

The package of support looks substantial — covering key areas like tax breaks for investors, talent incentives like stock options and a new digital nomad visa to attract international tech workers, among other measures aimed at cutting red tape and shrinking the time and cost of starting up in Spain.

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