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The cost of building software has collapsed. Three practitioners — a venture capitalist, a bootstrapped founder, and a product coach who shaped tools at Spotify and Google — argue that the real challenge has shifted: from execution to judgment, from speed to meaning.
The Startup Revolution AI Summit drew 2,000 founders, investors, and policymakers to dissect VC trends, growth strategies, state super apps, and dozens of startup pitches. Here are the notes from the floor.
Make's Martin Hýravý cuts through the hype ahead of the Startup Revolution AI Summit, revealing why founders must ditch flashy tech for dull, reliable automations that actually bring value and drive revenue.
Heading to Bucharest for How to Web Conference 2026? Investors from Eurazeo, Passion Capital, and Acurio spill what actually gets deals signed, and the red flags that kill pitches fast. Hint: faking the details won't fly.
86 global unicorns were (co)founded by someone from CEE. Together they are worth about $1.8 trillion. Only six of the 86 were founded in the founder's home country.
“For global fintechs, our region is the rest of the world. Very little support, very little attention,” explains Paypercut’s Stoil Vasilev. He’s building a full-stack payment engine precisely where giants like Stripe refuse to get their hands dirty.
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.