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Startup No 181 - StartupRealities 2020 series CitiesOfFounders is an urban planning company that helps philanthropists found new cities and give their name to the city, Alexander-of-Macedon-style. The company's primary focus is Africa, where population growth and urbanisation pressure create a need for new sustainable cities. Most of the new cities are built on desert land on the African coast; are powered by nearby solar energy farms; and desalinate seawater for their water supply. The water mains and sewer systems of new coastal cities run parallel salt water and fresh water networks, with saltwater used exclusively for flushing toilets. CEO QUOTE " Alexander of Macedon founded or renamed more than 20 cities in the 4th century BC. Our modern founders aim to have one city named after them, but this is already a great achievement. " - said CitiesOfFounders founder and CEO Citar Fountaine . Alexandria, Egypt (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 80 ScienceTransfer is a technology transfer and entrepreneurship promotion company that pairs up scientists, computer programmers and business people and encourages them to set up science-based startups. The company serves as an accelerator for such startups: it first identifies feasible scientific ideas through a range of competitions held around the world; then it matches the scientists and researchers with IT- and business-savvy co-founders to form a founding team; and then it helps the team scale up the idea into a business. CEO QUOTE "We match scientists with three types of people: hackers, hipsters and hustlers. Hackers are the coders, also known as computer programmers. The hipsters are the design people: those who tinker with user experience. And the hustlers are startup founders skilled in sales and marketing. Our motto is simple: SHHH! This stands for Scientists, Hackers, Hipsters, Hustlers," said ScienceTransfer founder and CEO Scirocco T...