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Mission accomplished: Startup Visa Canada is here

Version One Ventures

In 2010, Cristian and Mircea arrived in Vancouver from Romania to start a new company. This talented pair had a big idea, strong endorsements, and venture-capital backing from top tier investors like Accel. The initiative was inspired by the immigration struggles of the talented Summify team.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

His father came from Romania. So my family is Jewish and very typical immigration story – his father left Romania at 19, had to get a fake passport in order to get out of the country, left and never went back, and left in the middle of winter and got frostbite. He grew up in Colombia, South America. ” I said, “Why?”

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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

His father, my grandfather, ended up in South America after fleeing Jewish oppression in Romania. After just 4 years I become managing partner of what is now the largest venture capital fund in Los Angeles. My dad was an immigrant from Colombia. He moved to the US for medical school, the first in his family to ever do this.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there).

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The Silk Road Patron

Start Up Blog

In fact, what we are doing has been on line for some time for those who wanted to seek it out – the secret , has been out a while on this Ignite talk I did at a global digital event as linked below: A Stranger From Romania. entrepreneurship entrepreneurs startups Super Awesome Micro Project technology VC Venture Capital'

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

It’s inspiring to see that the world of cloud is now flat and any region can generate a category defining company, from Atlassian in Australia to UiPath in Romania, Celonis in Germany, Snyk in Israel, and Docusign and Crowdstrike in the US. What’s next?

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The rise of European SaaS: apply now to be included in the Accel Euroscape 2019

Cracking the Code

For example, UiPath, the leading Robotic Process Automation company from Romania, valued at $7 billion, may well be one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies of the decade, with revenues growing from $5 million to $200 million in around 30 months.

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