Emerging Economies | November 24, 2017 |
There has been a lot of news at play in the Emerging Economies. As the year is slowly counting towards the end, the startup scene in the emerging economies have also been showing what they are about: large numbers, resilient and full of spirit. The ecosystems showing more maturity with more players coming in.
This week in Emerging Economies Digest, we have captured a cross spectrum of deals, opportunities, ecosystems and conversations from a VC and an entrepreneur. It starts with the art of pitch and ends with a beautiful startup that deliver flowers from the immigrants!
Enjoy your Digest and share if you think we have done a good job.
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| | Naki B. Mendoza - Devex - The media platform for the global social development community. Answer from some of the world's most promising global development social enterprises, Fifty-four of them. All of the entrepreneurs had already received USAID funding through one of its programs — Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation and two Grand Challenges, Powering Agriculture and Securing Water for Food — and are now courting commercial investment to scale up their models. | | Vishal Harnal - Deal Street Asia The regional dynamics and differences are becoming increasingly important for investors as VC activity in Asia surges. Over $39 billion was invested in tech deals in 2016 in Asia and, for the first time, VC activity there has outpaced the US. Southeast Asia, with its population of over 700 million people and with one of the highest mobile and internet penetration rates in the world, is front and centre in that story.
| | Allie Burns - Tech.Co More than half of all venture capital in the world goes to just three US states: California, New York and MassachusettsJust 10 percent of private equity investments goes to emerging markets | | Kutlu Kazanci - EU Startups We are currently in 4 markets, Mexico, Spain, Poland and Russia. We are in the process of launching India. We have received investment from Naspers Group – PAYU, which has a very strong emerging markets footprint and the synergy is that we will expand where they are strong, such as South America, Romania, Turkey. | | JOSIAH MOTLEY - TNW When we think of startup hotbeds, it's easy to focus on places like Silicon Valley and Moscow, but one area that is continuing to improve and garner attention is farther south in areas of Latin America. While it still has a ways to go before reaching the notoriety level of somewhere like California, passionate entrepreneurs, startups, and VC firms are working hard to establish the necessary foundation to create a successful startup economy – and from the outside looking in, it seems to be going very well. | | Staff Reporter - Venture Burn Seedstars World, a global community for tech entrepreneurs in emerging markets, will hold its third annual Seedstars Africa Summit in Mozambique next month between 12 and 14 December. Following a tour of local startup ecosystems across 20 African countries, Seedstars World selected 20 of the most promising startups to pitch at the regional summit in Maputo. | | Netimperative - Netimperative Unveiled at the Millennial 20/20 conference in Singapore, the 30 startups selected demonstrate a unique and exciting point of difference, poised to affect technological, consumer and social change within SEAA. | | Alana Matos - WOMEN@FORBES If you've ever been far away from home, you know the feeling of longing you often feel for your friends and family. For many, home means somewhere you can't go back to– a reality that is increasingly true for the over 36 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans living in the United States. What's more, connecting with family who is far away is quickly becoming a large priority for the growing Latin American diaspora in the US. | |
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