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Anthropia’s startup factory has a price: show up, keep your shares
In a Duisburg villa, Anthropia helps social and green startups turn good intentions into businesses. Its Impact Factory charges no fees and takes no equity, but founders still have work to do.
Cambridge Cleantech knows who you need to meet
A smart air brick, a Japanese builder and methane trapped in water: Cambridge Cleantech connects climate inventions with people who can buy, test or fund them. Its business is making the next introduction count.
Maria 01 turned a hospital into a shortcut for startups
In Helsinki, an old hospital puts founders down the hall from venture capital. Maria 01’s real business is making the right people easier to find - with desks, introductions and a €2,000 accelerator among its tools.
DEEP Ecosystems puts a price on building a startup scene
The Munich company helps the people behind startup hubs turn local ambition into fundable projects. Its accelerator offers two years of support, with a 15% success fee on project funding raised.
The Garage traded parking spaces for startup runway
Inside a former Riyadh car park, The Garage brings founders, laboratories and investors into the same orbit. Its most useful promise is practical: help a young technology business get from a working idea to a paying market.
LHoFT wants banks to share their homework
Luxembourg’s fintech hub is tackling the work financial firms keep repeating. Its toolkit now stretches from a shared-data competition to an AI showroom and investment opportunities for financial-inclusion startups.
ROTSA wants Romania’s startups to think beyond the border
A prototype can be built in Cluj. A market has to be won. Romania’s tech startup association is putting foreign customers, practical mentoring and shared introductions on the same itinerary.
Chalhoub Greenhouse Gives Startups a Way Into the Store
The luxury retailer’s venture builder pairs founders with grants, working retail channels and people who can say yes. Its real test comes when the pilot ends.
HIEx Wants Health Startups to Escape the Pilot Trap
A good health invention can spend years waiting for a buyer. Geneva’s Health Innovation Exchange brings ministries, founders and investors together to help promising solutions reach the people they were built for.
Techscaler’s £42 million bet: teach Scotland to scale
Free membership, experienced mentors and a ticket into overseas markets. Scotland’s publicly funded startup programme is growing - and learning that helping a company start is different from helping it scale.
Startup Junkie Gives Away the Advice. Arkansas Gets the Bet.
From enterprise pilots to a mushroom farm’s cooling bill, Startup Junkie puts free business help to work. Its Arkansas experiment depends on something less glamorous than a pitch: people willing to pay for somebody else’s start.
CcHUB Is Building the Parts a Startup Cannot Download
The Lagos-born innovation company has spent years assembling the people, capital and institutional connections behind African tech ventures. Its most useful lesson: a promising app still needs somewhere to go.
Miller Center Knows a Better Pitch Won’t Pay for 500 Freezers
At Santa Clara University, Miller Center pairs social entrepreneurs with executive mentors, then helps bridge the gap between a workable business and money to grow. Its next test is making that support last beyond graduation.
The NHS has good ideas. South London’s HIN helps put them to work.
From faster wound healing to diabetes classes that understand the dinner table, Health Innovation Network South London tackles the awkward distance between a promising idea and everyday care.
OneValley
OneValley is a San Mateo-based global entrepreneurship platform that helps founders launch and scale startups while giving universities, accelerators, enterprises and governments the software to run their own innovation communities. Born from the Silicon Valley accelerator GSVlabs, it rebranded to OneValley in 2020 after its online Passport platform exploded in growth, and today it pairs that software with OneValley Ventures, a $25M seed and pre-seed fund. The mission: take the resources and connections traditionally locked inside Silicon Valley and make them reachable to innovators anywhere in the world.