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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. Investors: Emergence Capital Partners (Kevin Spain), OpenAir Ventures (Ron LeMay) , with existing investors Steamboat Ventures, Voyager Capital. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. That wouldn’t surprise me. 7mm in Series B.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Many countries have imposed travel bans and an unprecedented country-wide quarantine has been announced in Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders.

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Portugal

The Next Web

Like in neighboring Spain, the country was hit hard with a headache-inducing unemployment rate that was concentrated primarily on Portugal’s youth. It might be everyone’s dream to move to Portugal. Beautiful beaches, amazing food, and weather. Its vibrant startup scene is now another reason to add to the list.

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Estonia

The Next Web

And the country isn’t just dominating in terms of quantity, in 2017 it also brought in more venture capital funding per capita than major tech hubs like Germany, France and Spain. I bet you didn’t know that Estonia has the third highest amount of startups per capita than any other country in the world.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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Spain’s Ticketbis Raises Additional Round To Fuel International Growth

YoungUpstarts

Ticketbis, a Spain-based online platform where users can easily and securely buy and sell tickets for every kind of event, such as concerts, festivals, theater plays, art performances or soccer games – earlier last month closed a round of funding worth US$6.6 million, making it a total of $12.7 million since its founding in 2009.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.”

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