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Telstra Sets Up Startup Accelerator muru-D In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

For its initial foray into the Southeast Asia technology space, the startup accelerator will kick off a search for ten technology startups across Southeast Asia to participate its inaugural six-month accelerator program which begins in August 2015. trillion,” says Annie Parker, co-founder at muru - D.

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Singapore’s ClearBridge BioMedics Raises $9 Million Series B

YoungUpstarts

Other investors in this financing round include SPRING Seeds Capital , Clearbridge BSA and Lu Yoh Chie of Biosensors International , and existing shareholder BioVeda.

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Disrupting VC

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While the seed capital gap has closed, there are still only a handful of venture capital firms here in NYC investing in the crucial Series A/B rounds. In contrast, many Silicon Valley funds are large with much capital to put to work (which is why we are seeing them lead NYC deals at these stages).

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Immigrants and the Startup Visa

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They were from countries throughout Asia but told of similar tales, of parents who uprooted comfortable lives and rebuilt from scratch in a new country that provided opportunity to those who worked hard. “Our country should strive to attract the most talented and highly skilled entrepreneurs,” Lugar says. based start-ups.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

But before that, actually, there was this a couple of years break where, when Udemy did not work in Turkey, I met this Silicon Valley entrepreneur who wanted to build online, like speed dating, a video-based speed dating application. We had to raise some seed capital. In seven days, we launched the application.