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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

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Q3 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. And, Drover announced $26M in funding to take its car subscription marketplace to Europe. Scanwell Health was awarded a $1.6M

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x

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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

VC Cafe

“ Video games will move to the center of the entertainment and pop-culture universe next year” Axios, Future of media: Gaming Over the past two days, I had a chance to attend the Pocket Gamer Connects (PGC) London and meet and greet game developers, execs, studios, investors and service providers to the gaming industry.

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Their latest round of 138 millions dollars, led by Viola Growth ?-Next47

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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Nonprofit Healthcare Boards

Board Effect

Since 2020, healthcare data breach costs have increased by an alarming 53.3%. Data Protection and Privacy: Many countries have data protection laws (GDPR in Europe, HIPAA and the California Consumer Privacy Act in the U.S., million, which is the most expensive cost of all industries.

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

Here we are, halfway through 2020 and what an unprecedented year it has been. The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Happy Canada Day & Happy (early) Fourth of July! At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap.