The creation of startups can benefit from the removal of existing borders among all global entrepreneurial ecosystems. This is one of the main objectives of an alliance recently signed by the Spanish startup Nectios and the international consortium Global StartupCities, which brings together cities that encourage entrepreneurship and they are not capitals.
This project will make it easier for entrepreneurial ecosystems in cities and regions around the world to promote the development of its business network and connect with other sources of entrepreneurship, beyond the most well-known and traditional ones.
Fostering networking and opening the debate on innovation by incorporating new actors will be one of the pillars of this project to create virtual communities, which will bring together the promoters of ecosystems, startups, companies, investors and political agents in a digital environment. As the founder of Nectios explains, “We want all these virtual communities to be able to connect with each other, creating a huge global community of startups and entrepreneurship”.
The Global StartupCities initiative is responsible for accelerating and interconnecting new ecosystems of entrepreneurship and innovation, with a special focus on cities outside the large hubs. It has the support of the European Commission, with the European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel as Honorary Ambassador.
Currently, StartupCities is made up of entrepreneurial ecosystems Braga, Cape Town, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne, Heraklion, MalagaOstrava, ValenciaVantaa and Varna, and aims to incorporate delegations from 50 innovation ecosystems. “We want all these ecosystems to have their own virtual community and be able to connect with each other”Creus adds.
Nectios, the WordPress of online communities
Nectios is an all-in-one platform whose main mission is to facilitate the creation of online communitieswhich appear on the market in the form of membership clubs, intranets, member areas, alumni, open innovation platforms, e-learning… among more than 20 different types.
With their 50+ widgets, the platform has the greatest configurability on the market, giving customers great power of customization and flexibility. In addition, a community can now be created in just one minute and in self-service mode.
Nectios has nearly 500,000 users on its platform, including more than 20,000 companies and institutions in the economic and business field. Some of its most prominent clients today are the Medellin Chamber of Commerce, Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), the University of Gerona or the City Councils of Terrassa and Barcelona. Large corporations have recently joined the portfolio that have been attracted by the ease of creating their “Brand communities” with the Nectios platform.
