Categoria: funding
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Guru americano seleciona empresa brasileira para ajudar de graça
O guru do marketing Neil Patel (Foto/Divulgação) São Paulo – Considerado um dos melhores empreendedores de marketing digital do mundo – com empresas como Google, Amazon e GM entre seus clientes – o americano Neil Patel está interessado no Brasil. O especialista lançou na última sexta-feira (25) um desafio para pequenas e médias empresas daqui…
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São Paulo busca investimento$ para se tornar um hub global de Inovação
São Paulo busca investimentos para se tornar um hub global de Inovação e uma das ações é estreitar a parceria com países como Israel, que em 2016, obteve US$ 5 bilhões de financiamento, com 86% de capital estrangeiro. Essa foi uma das constatações do Spin 2017 – SPInnovationSummit,realizado na semana passada, em São Paulo. O…
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Investor activism is surging in continental Europe
LEAVE it to the Americans to besiege European companies in August, when the entire continent is on holiday. It emerged this month that Corvex Management, an American hedge fund, had built up a $400m position in Danone, a French food giant. AkzoNobel, a Dutch paints-and-chemicals firm which has been under heavy fire from…
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European Research Council readies €2bn in science funding
The European Research Council (ERC) has earmarked €1.86bn for its next Work Programme scheme – a competition intended to give European researchers support to “deliver ground-breaking scientific results”. There are a total of five grants up for grabs outlined in the programme, with most of the fund reserved for early- to mid- career researchers. Carlo…
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Innovation is dead, long live innovation
At a time when fundraising is facing some of its greatest challenges, we all now have the ability to innovate every day through digital technology. However, technology is only a mechanism to drive innovation and the organisations that have the greatest success do so because they have a clear…
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Request for Expression of Interest for the Canadian Energy Storage Innovation Mission to Brazil
Request for Expression of Interest Global Affairs Canada (GAC), through the Consulate General of Canada in Rio de Janeiro and the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) are pleased to bring this opportunity to your attention. Below is the full description of the Canadian Energy Storage Innovation Mission to Brazil 2017, which will…
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The Atlantic Canada Start-up Ecosystem
“There’s never been a better time to be a start-up in Atlantic Canada,” says Doug Robertson, CEO of Venn Innovation in Moncton, New Brunswick. Venn – a globally recognized innovation hub – is a part of a growing group of Atlantic-based organizations committed to creating successful entrepreneurs and companies in the region. Robertson’s position is…
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Medicina digital é uma realidade para startup investida
Tyler Crouch (à esq.), Jason Bellet e Connor Landgraf, fundadores da empresa Eko Devices Ele poderia estar surfando em Cabo San Lucas, no México. Mas Tyler Crouch passou as férias do verão de 2013 criando um estetoscópio digital, e pensando: “Tomara que isso valha a pena”. Ele tinha 21 anos e era estudante de engenharia…
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Long-term finance and BNDES tapering in Brazil
Otaviano Canuto & Matheus Cavallari One major policy issue in Brazil is how to boost productivity, while following a path of fiscal consolidation that will take at least a decade to bring the public-debt-to-GDP ratio back to 2000 levels (Canuto, 2016a). The productivity-boosting agenda includes not only the implementation of a full range of structural…
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Looking for ways to bootstrap your business?
Definition: To finance your company’s startup and growth with the assistance of or input from others . Anyone who’s started a business on a shoestring is adept at bootstrapping, or stretching resources–both financial and otherwise–as far as they can. But bootstrapping isn’t limited to the startup state. It’s a valid way for business owners to…
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