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The Refiners taught founders to cross the invisible border
A plane ticket could get you to Silicon Valley. The Refiners built a seed fund around everything it took to belong there.
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.
doola
doola is a New York-based fintech that helps entrepreneurs anywhere in the world start and run a U.S. business. Its 'Business-in-a-Box' platform bundles LLC and C-Corp formation, EIN registration, U.S. business banking access, bookkeeping, tax filing, compliance and e-commerce analytics into one back office, plus an AI Co-Founder. Founded in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator, doola has served 15,000+ founders across 175+ countries and is pushing agentic company formation directly into tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Replit, Lovable and Vercel.