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Mind the Bridge

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Founded in 2007, Mind the Bridge is a Silicon Valley/European organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and supporting sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world and bridging them to the world’s most innovative center – the Silicon Valley.
Mind the Bridge offers a suite of programs and services (Startup School, Investors Program, Scaleup Mastery Program, Corporate Executive Program, Technology Scouting) with partnerships and operations in Europe, Asia, MENA, and LATAM.
Mind the Bridge has also been chosen by the European Commission to drive “Startup Europe Partnership (SEP)”, the pan-European open innovation platform to connect startups to large corporates. It is also the host of Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV), an intense week of activities in Silicon Valley for top EU scaleups, corporates and policy makers.

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Location: United States, California, San Francisco

Investment Type: Accelerator

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03.12.2025	BPCL Recognised Among Global Top 100 Corporate Startup Stars	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a Fortune Global 500 company and a Maharatna PSU, has been recognised by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Mind the Bridge as one of the Top 100 Corporate...
29.11.2023	Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI	Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, wh...
16.11.2023	Australia’s Place On The Global Innovation Map	5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Alberto Onetti There is a global race for innovation and startups today. Regions and cities around the world are working hard to push their own startup ecosystems and put them on the global map. U...
17.12.2021	CEMEX is recognized as Global Open Innovation Challenger	Mind the Bridge, European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership, and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) hosted the 2021 Corporate Startup Stars awards. CEMEX Ventures, the company´s corporate venture capital and open innovation u...
15.09.2021	No Other Silicon Valley In Sight, Report Finds	136 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Alberto Onetti Is Silicon Valley losing its edge? Are we experiencing an exodus of tech workers and companies from Silicon Valley? Where is the next Silicon Valley? These have been the most aske...
15.09.2021	No Other Silicon Valley In Sight, Report Finds	22 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Alberto Onetti Is Silicon Valley losing its edge? Are we experiencing an exodus of tech workers and companies from Silicon Valley? Where is the next Silicon Valley? These have been the most asked...
18.01.2021	Schneider Electric : included in the Top 25 Corporate Startup Stars in 2020 by Mind the Bridge and ICC	Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been selected among the Top 25 Corporate Startup Stars in 2020. For the fifth year running, startups were asked to nominate corpora...
24.12.2020	Sodexo : named one of the leading companies in Open Innovat	Paris, December 16, 2020 - Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, is pleased to announce that it has been named one of the Top 25 Corporate Startup Stars for the fourth consecutive year. The ranking was unveiled at the virtual aw...
16.12.2020	SAP : Among the World's Top 25 Startup-Friendly Companies and Winner of Corporate Startup Accelerator Award	WALLDORF - SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced it has been recognized with a Corporate Startup Stars Award as one of the Top 25 most active companies to encourage open innovation with startups. SAP also received a Corporate Startup Accelerat...
16.12.2020	Telefonica S A : The “Corporate Startup Stars” award Telefonica's support to entrepreneurship through Wayra	The initiative, led by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the consulting firm Mind the Bridge in collaboration with the European Commission, recognises the companies that provide the most support to start-up companies and best ...
16.12.2020	Sodexo : named one of the leading companies in Open Innovation	Paris, December 16, 2020 - Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, is pleased to announce that it has been named one of the Top 25 Corporate Startup Stars for the fourth consecutive year. The ranking was unveiled at the virtual aw...
11.09.2018	Global M&A activity is flat so far in 2018	U.S. tech companies continue to be the most active acquirers in the world, says a new report from Crunchbase and Mind the Bridge. The pair crunched data on 22,000 startup exits since 2010, recording about 4,200 so far this year. U.S. compan...
15.03.2018	Huge UK tech exit as Experian acquires 2-year-old credit checking startup ClearScore for £275 million	ClearScore A customer using ClearScore. Advertisement Experian buying ClearScore for £275 million. 2-year-old ClearScore offers people credit checks for free in the UK and has over 6 million customers. The deal is the biggest UK tech exit i...
19.12.2017	SAP, Telefónica and Virgin awarded as the corporates most actively supporting European startups	Yesterday, Tech.eu attended an event in Brussels organised by open innovation advisory firm Mind the Bridge and UK-based innovation foundation Nesta, meant to highlight and award the corporates that are doing the most to support startups ac...
11.09.2017	As global startup exits grow, Europe sees its profile rise	Alex Wilhelm Contributor Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast. More posts by this contributor The Venn diagram between crypto and OnlyFans Coinbase files ...
11.09.2017	As Global Startup Exits Grow, Europe Sees Its Profile Rise	31 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Looking at the number of exits produced and the total dollar volume those liquidity events commanded, the European startup scene has shown growth over the past year. Follow Crunchbase News on Twitte...
10.06.2017	Portugal’s scaleup ecosystem is growing twice as fast as the European average	During the past few years, many have covered the remarkable and rapid road that Portugal, and particularly its capital, Lisbon, has travelled by reframing its financial and economic woes into an opportunity for the nation to reinvent itself...
10.06.2017	Portugal’s scaleup ecosystem is growing twice as fast as the European average	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! During the past few years, many have covered the ...
02.03.2016	Un program initiat de Comisia Europeana duce startup-uri europene in Silicon Valley. Se pot inscrie si firmele din Romania	Startup-urile europene se pot inscrie in cadrul unui program prin care vor fi selectate 15 firme care sa participe timp de o saptama la intalniri si discutii cu investitori si mari companii din Silicon Valley. Proiectul este realizat de Com...
-	European Innovation Day	Matteo Daste and Olivier Edwards will be speaking on the panel “Startup M&As: EU vs US” at the European Innovation Day – Digital Europe Conference 2017 in Silicon Valley. Organized by Mind the Bridge and EIT Digital, the conference is a...

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