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While
I was in Germany for the Domaining
Europe conference in Berlin
last month our friends at Startup
League (a startup-support
program launched
last year by new gTLD
registry operator Radix),
were also on the Continent taking
part in The
Next Web Conference (TNW)
that was held in Amsterdam May
18-19. Startup League sponsored 15
startups that use Radix TLDs to
exhibit at TNW - an event that put
the new businesses and their domain
extensions in front of 15,000
attendees, 275 investors and 250
exhibiting startups (resulting
in 1,788 pre-booked
investor-startup meetings)!
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The
Hackathon
at TNW conference, that
was also supported by Radix, saw 8
out of 10 finalists on Radix
TLDs; including Sensors.fun,
Rock-On.space,
ToonBNB.host
and the Hackathon winner - BikingDrunkIs.Fun.
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TNW
had four startup tracks: Bootstrap,
Boost, Scale
and Impact. Startup
League and TNW had
joined forces to launch the
‘Tickets to Boost’
program in February 2017 to
select 15 startups to
exhibit for the Boost track
for free. As part of
the 100% sponsorship,
the selected startups got a
free Startup Exhibitor Table
at the TNW Conference, along
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free
attendee tickets. Curated
face-to-face meetings with
investors and opportunity to
pitch the startup on stage
were also part of the
program. The package, which
would have otherwise cost €1,299
to startups, was made free
for the chosen startups who
came from 11 different
countries. |
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Suman
Das of the Startup League, said,
“The startups got great exposure
to investors and media. The event
was an appropriate platform for them
to test their product amongst a
relevant audience.”
Last
year, the Startup
League had supported 15 startups at
the Web Summit in Portugal.
One of the startups that exhibited
at that event with the support of
Startup League, Nu-Rise.tech,
raised funding due to the exposure
at the event and the connections
made there. The same startup also
got selected for the Mass
Challenge, a global
non-profit startup accelerator and
competition. By forging similar
partnerships with TNW and similar
events, the Startup League hopes to
create similar opportunities for
other startups as well.
Looking
ahead, the Startup League is now
gearing up for RISE in Hong
Kong, TechCrunch Disrupt
in San Francisco and Web
Summit in
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Suman
Das
Radix Startup League |
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Lisbon, Portugal.
In recent years, Portugal has
emerged as a startup hub with vested
interest from its government that is
empowering young businesses to boost
the local economy. The Startup
League has supported that effort by
rolling our special programs for Portugal’s
startup community. Last month the
Startup League team visited the
country's five main
entrepreneur-hubs on a five-day road
trip that took them to Braga,
Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra
and Lisbon. |
Startup
League's Suman Das (3rd from
left) and Tanisha Guptya
(front center)
visiting with members of the Portugal
Startup Community last month.
With
respect to that effort Mr. Das noted,
“The idea was to meet with major
incubators, accelerators and startup
communities across Portugal. We
interacted with them to understand
their marketing challenges and how
the Startup League could help them
leverage event marketing to their
advantage. Over the five days, we
met 22 incubators and over
100 members of the startup
ecosystem in Portugal. Through our
interaction with them, we were able
to create tremendous awareness
of new TLDs in the Portugal startup
community and got an overwhelmingly
positive response towards new TLDs
in general and our program on the
whole.”
As
a result of this campaign, the
Startup League has now partnered
with various Portugal based startup
communities, including Startup
Braga (Braga), UPTEC
(Porto), IEUA (Aveiro), IPN
(Coimbra), Startup Lisboa and
Beta-i (Lisbon). The
Startup League currently, it has 75+
startups on board and 40+
partners from the global startup
ecosystem.
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