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Wayra is a start-up accelerator which was started in Latin America and Spain in 2011 as an initiative of Telefónica's chief executive in Europe, José María Álvarez-Pallete. The start-up companies receive funding, office space and mentoring. In 2013, there were 14 Wayra academies in 12 countries in Europe and Latin America and Telefónica planned to support about 350 startups altogether.〔 The manager of the Wayra Academy in London explained their business strategy, "It's not just about the ideas. We are using Wayra as a way of acquiring great talent for Telefónica."〔 In March 2015 Telefónica closed down Wayra CEE located in Prague. As Telefónica had previously sold their Telecommunications operations, this was part of completely exiting the market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wayra CEE to end operations in March )〕 == Notable Exits == April 2015: Volo was sold to Rocket Internet. Previously Volo was part of Wayra Germany 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/volo/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wayra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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