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Governments should invest in their diaspora founders

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Prabhat Gusain is currently the chief of staff at Caffeinated Capital and was previously an intern with Versatile VC. Then you have national and local governmental organizations interested in promoting economic growth and job creation. Prabhat Gusain. Contributor. Share on Twitter. He is a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. David Teten.

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IFC and other impact investors return to backing Ukraine startups, with new $250M fund aimed at founders under the gun

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Horizon Capital , an investment firm based out of Kyiv, is in the process of raising a $250 million fund that it plans to use to back tech startups in the country and neighboring Moldova. Some of those efforts had a very tech focus, as we have previously chronicled.). Ironically, that played out in a delayed way in terms of business output.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

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These countries are, in the main, ones that share a border with Ukraine: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, and Slovakia. While almost a third of grants went to organizations in Ukraine, recipient countries reflect giving to local chapters of the Red Cross and other international relief organizations, or to their Geneva-based headquarters.

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