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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

And last but not least, we announced our investment in Celo , an open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform. Coinbase expanded its cryptocurrency Visa Debit Cards across Europe and also welcomed 11 countries in Latin America and Asia. Lolli launched its Firefox extension (to add to the Chrome extension).

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. Why Eastern Europe? in India and China) The region has an exceptional talent pool: Eastern Europe was the first country to send a man into space in 1961 and has a very strong network of universities. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)

Austin Startup

The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. Camunda’s software is based on open source software, and based on important standards like BPMN for processes and DMN for decisions.

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Regulatory arbitrage in crypto

Version One Ventures

Just over the last year, we at V1 have done two crypto investments in Europe with Guesser (Madrid) and Nexus Mutual (London). This is particularly true in crypto that often operates with distributed teams, an open source spirit and on the idea of global currencies. Ideas, teams and capital are more fluid than ever before.

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How TechXLR8 Forges Change Makers from Startups

The Startup Magazine

2018 is the year of TechXLR8, the flagship event of London Tech Week, the largest tech festival in Europe, and backed by the mayor of London. Fintech and Blockchain are expanded topics this year, as we’ve seen global innovation in all areas of finance. Internet of Things World Europe. Challenge the Expected.

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2023 Global Venture Reports were Gloomy, but there are reasons to be optimistic

VC Cafe

Global venture funding fell 42% year over years to $248.8 For example, Tiger Global, a crossover fund which was one of the most active venture investors in 2021 went from 194 deals in 2021 to a mere 20 in 2023 and has been trying to actively sell its positions in the secondary market at steep discounts to get liquidity.