About Us

Startup Genome

Startup Genome is the world-leading policy advisory and research organization for public and private organizations committed to accelerating the success of their startup ecosystem. We have advised more than 125 clients across six continents in 45+ countries to date.

Startup Genome’s mission is to accelerate startup success and ecosystem performance everywhere. We work together with global thought leaders and practitioners to define and execute robust policies and programs that drive lasting change. Our impact is rooted in over a decade of independent research with data on three million companies across 280 cities.

Working side-by-side with 300 partner organizations, our frameworks and methodologies have become instrumental in building foundations for startups and startup ecosystems to grow. Many of the world’s leading governments and innovation-focused organizations have joined our knowledge network to cut through the complexities of startup ecosystem development and fuel sustained economic growth. Considered the new science of startup ecosystem assessment, we point to key gaps in startup ecosystems and prioritize actions to take in addressing them.

Join us and boost startup success, economic growth, and job creation in your region. Follow our work at startupgenome.com, and on LinkedIn and Twitter. Public and private startup community leaders looking to accelerate the growth of their startup ecosystem can reach us at contact@startupgenome.com.

Our Global Network

About Global Entrepreneurship Network

The Global Entrepreneurship Network operates a platform of projects and programs in 180+ countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business. By fostering deeper cross-border collaboration and initiatives between entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers, and entrepreneurial support organizations, GEN works to fuel healthier start and scale ecosystems that create more jobs, educate individuals, accelerate innovation, and strengthen economic growth. GEN’s comprehensive global footprint of national operations and global verticals in policy, research, and programs ensures members have uncommon access to the most relevant knowledge, networks, communities, and programs relative to size of economy, maturity of ecosystem, language, culture, geography, and more.

About Our Global Partners

• TNW: TNW is a global digital brand that informs, inspires, and connects people who love tech, through media, events, and spaces. Primarily known for its media outlet and award-winning tech events, TNW also incorporates a co-working label, a global startup database, and delivers custom innovation programs to corporates and governments.

• Bella Private Markets: Provides actionable advice on private capital challenges. Combining rigorous academic approaches with real world industry expertise, its expert team focuses on complex, customized projects that require thorough analysis, whether quantitative or qualitative in nature, to help its clients assess or design strategies, improve performance, and chart winning strategies for the future.

• Crunchbase: Everyday investors, journalists, founders, and the global business community turn to Crunchbase for information on startups and the people behind them.

• Dealroom.co: Provides data-driven intelligence on high-growth companies.

• Tech Nation(formerly Tech City UK): Empowers ambitious tech entrepreneurs through growth programs, digital entrepreneurship skills, a visa scheme for exceptional talent, and by championing the UK digital sector through data, stories, and media campaigns.

About ITIDA

The IT Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) is the executive arm of the Egyptian Ministry of Communication & Information Technology. Since its establishment in 2004, ITIDA’s core ideology is spearheading the development of Egypt’s IT industry to increase its global competitiveness and make it a key contributor to the country’s economic growth. 

Understanding the significant role of innovation and tech- driven entrepreneurship as key drivers for economic growth and global competitiveness, ITIDA collaborates with distinguished public and private stakeholders to support the development of rising tech and tech-enabled startups.

In 2010, ITIDA established the Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), a dynamic entity that acts as a catalyst to the ecosystem and provides end-to-end support to entrepreneurs, starting from raising awareness on entrepreneurship in universities and ideation camps through pre-incubation and incubation programs to linkages with potential international/regional investors and market penetration support. 

Learn more about ITIDA at itida.gov.eg and about TIEC at tiec.gov.eg 

About Tech:NYC

Tech:NYC represents the companies and leaders that make up the city’s fast-growing, entrepreneurial high-tech industry. It does so with government, civic institutions, in business and public policy forums, and with the media. Its primary goal is to continue to attract tech talent and jobs to NYC, to support the growth of the technology sector, and to increase civic engagement by leaders of the New York tech community.

Tech:NYC mobilizes the expertise and resources of the tech sector to work with city and state government on programs and policies that ensure New York’s pre-eminence in the global innovation economy.

Find out more about Tech:NYC at technyc.org

About NYCEDC

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization that works with and for communities across New York City to strengthen neighborhoods and create good jobs. It does this through industry and business development initiatives, training and skill-building programs, and public investments in key infrastructure.

Learn more about NYCEDC at edc.nyc

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