Chile Startup Scene

Start-Up Chile, the Chilean government’s program created in 2010 to attract innovative startups from all over the world, has put the country under the spotlight. It offers a most attractive package consisting of a USD 40,000 equity-free grant, plus a one-year...

Bangalore startup scene

« Incredible India » is actually the country with the 3rd largest number of startups in the world after the US and the UK, with some 3,100 ventures as of late 2014. Bangalore, often dubbed the Silicon Valley of India, is the technology heart of this gigantic, 1.2bn...

Bangladesh startup scene

Bangladesh is your typical frontier market: largely unexplored, fast-growing (6% growth), young (60% of the population below 30), and large rural population (72% of their 160 millions). The infrastructure is not yet there too, with only 50 million mobile subscribers...

Nigeria startup scene

Nigeria is dubbed “Africa’s India” for its demographic stats. If today the population if “only” 173 million, making it the largest country in Africa, tomorrow, it should reach half a billion (2050) and likely a billion by the turn of next...

ShenZhen startup scene

Shenzhen is the manufacturing hub of China. A fishing village with 200,000 population 30 years ago, it has been turned by the government into a special economic zone, attracting millions of migrants. Today, it’s a 15m metropolis, surrounded by Hong-Kong on the...

Iran Startup scene

Just like so many other things, the tech scene in Iran is synchronizing with the tensions arousing from, or gravitating around the political regime. Every 10 years or so, it seems a new hardline or conversely, a new reformist movement will change the situation....