The Recursive: Get to Know the Southeast Europe Innovation Ecosystem

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The Greek Phaistos Fund raises €3M from Deutsche Telekom to enable the growth of the local 5G ecosystem

Phaistos Investment Fund, the Greek €93M+ fund that is focused on enabling the development of a Greek 5G ecosystem, received a €3M investment from the German Deutsche Telekom. This is the first investment of Deutsche Telekom in Greece and the first collaboration between foreign private and local public funds. Founded at the beginning of 2021, Phaistos Investment Fund has already completed its internal and investment regulations. The first round of fundraising from private investors also heads towards completion and Phaistos...

Simpler uses a model called “headless checkout”, which decouples the checkout process from the online stores for the first time.

Startups

Backed up by VentureFriends, e-commerce startup Simpler aims to simplify online shopping with headless checkout

By Bojan Stojkovski

Most of the time, online shopping can be lots of fun. However, sometimes the shopping […]

Blockchain

EnterDAO raised $1.8M to build the market infrastructure for metaverse gaming

By Elena Ivanova

The first DAO (decentralized autonomous organization), developed by a mainly Bulgarian team, is now a […]

Startups

Innovation labs where CEE founders can test and validate their ideas

By Antoanela Ionita

At the beginning of their journey, founders need as much support as they can get […]

Deals

Romanian-founded wellbeing company 7Card was acquired by global player Gympass in a European expansion move

By Elena Vrabie

Bucharest-based wellbeing and fitness company Benefit Seven (7Card), which offers employees access to a network […]

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Fintech

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How omnichannel payment platforms are enabling sales anytime, anywhere

By Visa Innovation Program 22nd Dec 2021

Deals

Next stop for Blueground: Latin America with $14M investment in Tabas

By Antoanela Ionita 21 January 2022 2 mins read

Following its Series C funding round of $180 million, Greek-founded Blueground is leading the $14M […]

Deals

Romanian-founded wellbeing company 7Card was acquired by global player Gympass in a European expansion move

By Elena Vrabie 20 January 2022 2 mins read

Bucharest-based wellbeing and fitness company Benefit Seven (7Card), which offers employees access to a network […]

Startups

Backed up by VentureFriends, e-commerce startup Simpler aims to simplify online shopping with headless checkout

By Bojan Stojkovski 20 January 2022 4 mins read

Most of the time, online shopping can be lots of fun. However, sometimes the shopping […]

Startups

Innovation labs where CEE founders can test and validate their ideas

By Antoanela Ionita 20 January 2022 7 mins read

At the beginning of their journey, founders need as much support as they can get […]

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