Highlighting the budding entrepreneurial ecosystems from regions around the world.
Emerging Economies or Emerged Economies? Excellent news pouring in from the world of startups and that spreads equally from Brazil to Bahrain…from Kenya to South Asia. Enjoy your read on this issue of Techstars Startup Digest Emerging Economies and don’t forget to share the good news!
A young consumer internet founder blocked me recently. What’s your #1 piece of advice for startups in Nigeria? Without missing a beat it was simple. Just F*%king Survive. That’s it. Impossible for me to go deeper than that in my brief encounters. But whatever you are doing. Just f*%king survive. – Jason Njoku, founder of iRoko….
This is the latest in a series of city guides to global innovation hubs. Each guide features a set of locations, curated by a city local, to help connect innovators and entrepreneurs to like-minded communities across the globe. This post focuses on Cairo, Egypt.
Everyone wants a piece of it. Even if they don’t, they will end up somehow connected to it. Asia’s tech heart is beating fast and data centres are pumping streams of revenues across the investor landscape. But what does the market really look like and what do you need to know?
Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore, has closed a $60 million Series B round to scale its business in Southeast Asia.
Over 500 international investors and select business leaders flocked to Bahrain to explore how to unlock opportunities across the ‘New GCC’ as ‘Gateway Gulf Investor Forum’ defined the region.
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