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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

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Perhaps an exception to this oft-repeated phrase, in my experience, is Entrepreneur First out of London/Europe (but now also in Asia), and even then that entity is slightly closer to a pre-accelerator in the way it assembles talent before it assembles the startups (although it does also fund its startups). Of course, “your mileage may vary.”

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Greece’s Pop Market, another dark store grocery delivery startup, gets $3.5M

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The seed round, which Pop Market claims is the country’s largest seed raise to date, was led by Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital. ” Telecki argues that for on-demand groceries Greece is underserved vs “heated battlegrounds” in Western Europe, adding that its first focus will therefore be on its home market.

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Seven Seven Six, the new venture firm from Alexis Ohanian, closes $150 million Fund 1

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Nearly a year later, he’s announcing that his new venture firm, Seven Seven Six , has raised $150 million for its first fund. Pipe , a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams which just announced a $2B valuation in under one year. Thus far, the VC firm has made 17 investments.

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International coalition of activists launches protest against Amazon

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The protests come just as the New York Times reports that the Seattle-based company has been on a hiring spree this year, expanding its global workforce. Today there’s a global day of action with strikes, protests, and stunts across five continents,” James Schneider, the communications director for Progressive International, tells The Verge.

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Maritime recruitment platform Seafair gets $5.7M led by General Catalyst

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This brings Seafair’s total funding to about $7 million. Seafair was launched late last year by Agapitos Diakogiannis, who was born and raised in Greece, and its current clients include one of the world’s top 100 shipping companies. Maritime intelligence platform Greywing raises seed funding from investors like Flexport.

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Harbor Lab secures €6.1M to make shipping dock more easily and cheaply

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But now a Athens, Greece startup Harbor Lab has come up with a solution. million in funding to further develop its platform. million in funding to further develop its platform. VentureFriends is a European early-stage VC that has offices in London, Warsaw and Athens, currently investing out of its 3rd fund of €100 million.

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Edge computing startup Macrometa gets $20M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners

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Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.