Ana Marija is the Editor-in-Chief of The Recursive. Even though her beginnings go back to mainstream media, her passion for technology prevailed. She polished her journalistic and editorial craft at C
Italian Lexroom completed full acquisition of Sofia's Praven Intelekt, bringing a platform with more than 19,000 registered users and nearly 1.2 million Bulgarian legal documents into its European network; and naming co-founder Siyanna Lilova as its new Head of Central and Eastern Europe.
A team of AI heavyweights, led by two Slovenians, left Nvidia to build a virtual sandbox for robots. With a $90M seed round, Veeda AI is betting that the safest way for machines to learn about our world is to never touch it.
A landmark proposal to create a single European company form is caught between its promise of radical simplicity for startups and a parliamentary push for safeguards that critics fear could dilute its very purpose.
Insurance maybe isn’t sexy, but it’s a billion-dollar business. We sat down with Dusan Komar, the CEO of the first CEE insurance unicorn Ominimo, to exclusively discuss their exponential growth, market entry and expansion in Europe.
Check the biggest H1 2026 funding rounds for Slovenia and key details about the startups.
Serbian Ominimo has officially reached a $1.6 billion valuation following its Series B investment round, which included participation from the investment arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Check the biggest H1 2026 funding rounds for Lithuania and key details about the startups.
Check the biggest H1 2026 funding rounds for Albania & Kosovo, and key details about the startups.
A look at seven Serbian companies that raised capital in H1 2026, from a Subotica battery gigafactory to a Belgrade AI workspace tool.
Check the biggest H1 2026 funding rounds for Croatia and key details about the startups.
Check the biggest H1 2026 funding rounds in Hungary and key details about the startups.
At Croatia's Nuqleus Liftoff, EIB and EIC officials outlined a strategic push into deep tech. Backed by new capital to bridge early-stage funding gaps, the focus is on utilizing scientific excellence to drive industrial scale. Can the region help Europe build a deep tech moat?
"I found someone who was a better entrepreneur than me, who was more visionary… I was like, man, I would love to work for you.” The story of how Gabriel Dymowski left his company to build AI hardware startup Pocket, which just raised €9.65M ($11M) led by Accel.
“When researchers come to us, it doesn’t start with a negotiation,” Viktor Olsson of KTH Innovation explains. Here’s how Sweden’s founder-friendly university model is creating a deep tech powerhouse and what CEE can learn from it.
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) marked one year since opening its Bucharest office, growing its Romanian portfolio to three startups, and evaluating over 100 local companies, according to Romania Partner Matei Dumitrescu.
From ‘predatory’ IP terms to a lack of smart capital, deep tech in CEE faces unique hurdles. Zagreb’s Liftoff conference wants to rewrite the rules of the game.
Greek venture capital firm Big Pi Ventures led a US $30 million Series B round into Australian robotics company August Robotics, backing autonomous robot fleets that drill and mark floors across hyperscale construction sites worldwide.
AI researcher Emily Kate Genatowski and her robot Tova are testing the limits of modern society. Through "tangible confrontations," she reveals that the biggest hurdles for humanoid robots are bureaucratic and legal, not technical. Is the world ready for the future?
