Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

It’s also the first company we’ve helped incubate! Coinbase expanded its cryptocurrency Visa Debit Cards across Europe and also welcomed 11 countries in Latin America and Asia. Kobalt is an exciting investment for us – it’s out first security investment (after looking for the right opportunity for some time).

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Media incubator ESPACIO , has announced its acquisition of the tech news publication 150sec – the renowned online magazine focused on entrepreneurship and tech in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Agata and I believe in the startups in Central Europe, and in the potential of entrepreneurs here,” said Pica in a press release.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The young entrepreneurs I met are bringing impressive energy and intelligence to their goal of building one of Europe’s leading technology hubs in Helsinki. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. The insular nature of the culture hasn’t yet created a “ pay it forward ” culture.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2011

As you may recall from previous roundtable posts, that 1M/1M works closely with many incubators around the world. We simply offer our services as an extension of the incubators' existing programming. Then we moved to another exciting segment for which I need to give you some context. 123ContactForm.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. The same applies to Malaysia, where our partner, the MAD Incubator, is in search of 10 good deals to put through the 1M/1M program. Incubator photo from Geograph. PartingOut.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Malaysia Entrepreneur 128

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 21, 2012

This data is from the US and I haven’t found anything comparable for Europe so answering the question of whether or not we will have a Series A crunch here is more difficult. accelerator and incubator programmes are funding large numbers of companies – also happening in Europe, but not to the same extent as the US.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2011

If you’re a Europe-based startup, you may want to check this out. The Rockstart Accelerator program is open to all Europe-based startups of all stripes and colors, whether you’re in technology, green tech, retail or any other sector. In a somewhat refreshing change, the program is not limited to technology startups.

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Europe Programming Founder Silicon Valley 145

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

Startup incubators have grown in double digits in the last couple of years. Following the success of Ycombinator and TechStars, in recent years we have seen literally hundreds of regional incubators set up in the rest of the US and Europe , across campuses and within vertical industries, such as mobile or finance.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. They themselves receive both public and private funding, which they use in turn to provide financial support to startups through incubators and other established channels.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) That said, Europe is different: Draper Esprit (LON: GROW) is a British VC which recently IPO’d , joining a number of public VC firms in Europe, e.g., Imperial Innovations plc, IP Group plc, BGF Ventures, Eight Roads, Octopus Ventures, and Partners Group.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

The Rothschilds famously utilized their network of operations on different continents to amass one of the largest fortunes in Europe. An in-house incubator or a stand-alone family private equity fund may help capitalize on these insights for the mutual financial benefit of the family.

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Technical Review Private Equity Non-Compete Reputation 100

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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Singapore Programming Asia Incubator 243

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. All of this is located exactly at the crossroads between Europe and North America. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have. In 2009, business angels invested 160 times more than their counterparts in continental Europe. In comparison with Europe, lesser teams with lesser technology have access to more resources and will get further, faster. we don’t).

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Silicon Valley Finland Sweat Equity Entrepreneur 156

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Through a four month pre-seed incubator program, you can launch your dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs, while not being required to quit your day job. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt SF. Startup Battlefield. About & Staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? So, let’s start with the basics. But you should.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Gust

JULY 12, 2012

We arrived from Moscow on April 25th; the following day, I spoke on Raising Money to Go Global at StartSmart , a conference held at an incubator and innovation center named Technopolis Ülemiste. We found Tallinn to be both a delightful place to visit and the best preserved medieval city in Northern Europe. Isaac’s Cathedral.

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Community Estonia Ireland Finland 121

Campus Entrepreneurship

JULY 26, 2017

A recent release from the European Committee of the Regions : With its new start-up and scale-up initiative the European Commission (EC) wants to give Europe’s innovative entrepreneurs every opportunity to grow and become successful worldwide, paying attention to the need for regionally interconnected EU-wide clusters and ecosystems.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. About Sramana Mitra.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator that mostly failed, but also created products including Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. Here’s how he learned to embrace new experiences: When I was young my family moved to Europe. I was, at one point, in 10 schools in 10 years. ….

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Nevada 120

entrepreMusings

JUNE 1, 2010

I went to Portugal with 4 other colleagues (3 of us presented) to help give a workshop on incubation management and on-shoring opportunities for Portuguese technology companies to the US. The UTEN program is also run through IC2 which the Austin Technology Incubator (where I work) is also under. Boat photo : Taken in Porto.

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Portugal Technical Review Incubator Due Diligence 28

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

In fact, at a time when we're facing severe youth unemployment in America and Europe, and the emerging markets are just starting to build their entrepreneurship eco-systems, we really need to think deeply on how more and more young people can be efficiently, rapidly and cost-effectively be trained in entrepreneurship.

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Advertising SMS Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

trillion GDP of Europe in total. More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. Europe is often accused of just copying proven models from the US and localizing them in Europe. A few numbers about Spain.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 7, 2010

European startup incubator Seedcamp has launched a new online platform, Seedsummit.org , aimed at connecting startups with European seed investors. But as the site will help to strengthen the investor and entrepreneur networks in Europe, it is still a worthwhile effort. Discuss.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

” Austin features a government-sponsored small business development program, and a reputable university business incubator. The city of Nashville also has a variety of business resources, including incubators like NBIC right through minority resource centers. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The unemployment rate, just 3.5

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. International: Success and Challenges of Lean Innovation and Customer Discovery in Europe and Asia [and South America? Tech Commercialization: innovators vs. entrepreneurs – motivating scientists and engineers.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the team of eFounders , the new Parisian SaaS start-up incubator founded by Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia) and Quentin Nickmans. Today is a very interesting time for the SaaS industry: Europe has shown it was capable of creating successful SaaS businesses, and it’s only the beginning.

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API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Dave McClure >>"what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach." startupcto

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Babbling VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In Europe, you have historically London in the top spot and Paris, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich and so forth all tried to be hubs. Yes, there are already local players on the ground including angels and VC's as well as incubators but the big guys are still missing, be it from London or the US. This is the benefit of the Valley.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 11, 2012

Well, look no further than Rocket Internet , Team Europe or HackFWD for example. Former entrepreneurs in Germany all started incubators instead of funds. Sure, they eventually ended up starting funds too (Rocket and Team Europe) but that's a normal evolution and smart. Meanwhile, what have the hungry young players done?

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Germany Incubator Europe Finance 86

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

The company’s growth is largely thanks to its collaborators – Travelport, its first investor and incubator, lead investor 7 Gate Ventures, and Real Venture. As a service platform, Weezevent’s software boasts over 200,000 events in Europe, with increasing numbers in Canada as well.

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Widget France Canada Aggregator 64

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. International: Success and Challenges of Lean Innovation and Customer Discovery in Europe and Asia [and South America? Lean Innovation in the Enterprise, Not-for-Profit and Government – what’s different.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well. We do have money in Europe, but we still believe that investments are about real estate and banking deposits.

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Babbling VC

JULY 21, 2011

I clearly see in Europe that we are following the same path as in the US. What does it mean for the VC's in Europe? In Europe, we also have another problem which is currently being resolved in the Valley. There are not enough angels, super-angels or incubators. This is far too little when you compare Europe to the US.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2012

Sure, many are left by the wayside on this journey but without such an ecosystem in place, Germany and Europe will forever trail the US. . Then you have the corporates, some super angel funds, more recently incubators and government entities. Specifically in Germany you have the problem that very few funds have grown to scale.

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