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Startup Country Guide: India
With a growing presence of investors that cumulatively invested USD 14.5 billion in Indian startups in 2019, India is ripe for disruption by savvy entrepreneurs who are willing to go the extra mile.
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Startup Universal is a content website covering emerging startup ecosystems across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. We work directly with top local investors & founders in emerging ecosystems to develop global startup insights in the form of country guides, database of local resources, and curated news articles. You can think of Startup Universal as the Wikipedia of global startup ecosystems--a centralized and foundational information source.
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Inspired by a year of traveling abroad in tech hubs, Jonathan Moed started Startup Universal, which now has 26 country guides, covering many of Southeast Asia’s key technology markets.
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