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Welcome 2021 with a Look Back at 2020

UBI Global

A 2020 year in review, plus what we learned and what comes next Unique. Unprecedented – 2020 was all those things and more, and even though the world is about to transition into a new year the world’s innovation ecosystem still facing many challenges. Challenging.

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Triumph of Innovation: Meet District 2020

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Top Listed and Number One

UBI Global

Recognizing the Top Business Incubators and Accelerators from the World Benchmark Study 2019-2020 In 2012, a Swedish student wondered, “What are the traits of the most successful top-performing university incubators worldwide?” The answer at the time was unavailable; the landscape was unmapped, unexplored, and unranked.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 Yele Bademosi, who runs Microtraction , a West African early-stage VC firm, is the CEO of Bundle Africa , a Nigerian-based crypto-exchange startup that raised $450,000 in April 2020. .

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TC Sessions: Space 2020 launches next week

TechCrunch

TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first conference dedicated to galactic endeavors, launches in just one week (December 16-17). Fast Money Breakout Sessions: Learn about the different accelerators, incubators and grant programs available to help you fund and grow your startup. TC Sessions: Space 2020 runs from December 16-17.

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Kicking off 2020 with big wins, including new tender to operate medical cannabis incubator

OurCrowd

In OurCrowd’s fifth incubator win, the consortium consisting of OurCrowd, Perrigo and BOL Pharma, won the Israeli government tender to operate CanNegev , a medical cannabis incubator that will be located in Yeruham, in the south of Israel. As I told NoCamels , in this past decade, the Israeli tech ecosystem came into its own. .