In Madrid’s Villaverde district, a public innovation center offers founders workspace, mentoring and introductions without taking equity. Its most useful product may be the person you would otherwise never meet.
Ukraine built a public fund to write the first check for young tech companies. War stopped the familiar pitch-day machine - then forced it to become something broader, faster and far more international.
A delayed factory campus became a citywide startup system: one front door for founders, scaleups, investors and corporations - and a useful lesson in how a city can turn real estate into an operating network.