Ana Marija Kostanic 95 articles

Deals

Biggest Funding Rounds of Croatian Startups in 2025

By Ana Marija Kostanic 16 January 2026 5 mins read

For the Croatian startup ecosystem, 2025 was a year of stabilization and strategic shifts. While […]

Ecosystem

Regional Cleantech Is Done Waiting

By Ana Marija Kostanic 9 January 2026 5 mins read

The cleantech narrative in Europe has long been dominated by the established hubs of the […]

AI

The Agency AI Reality Check: Why Your Clients Want a Discount (and Why You Shouldn’t Give Them One)

By Ana Marija Kostanic 29 December 2025 5 mins read

If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn lately, you’d think the average IT agency is […]

Events

What It Takes to Win From CEE? Learn This February at Unlockit

By Ana Marija Kostanic 22 December 2025 4 mins read

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has long been known for its engineering talent. Yet, despite […]

Startups

18 Deep Tech Startups from CEE You Should Keep an Eye On

By Ana Marija Kostanic 11 December 2025 5 mins read

Europe possesses world-class research institutions and scientists, and Central & Eastern Europe is no exception […]

AI

“AI Shouldn’t Be English-Centric”: Meet Latvian Foundation Model Optimized for 34 European Languages

By Ana Marija Kostanic 3 December 2025 6 mins read

If you used ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity in any other language than English, I bet […]

Interview

Jeta Zagragja: Outsourcing Makes (More) Sense for Emerging Markets

By Ana Marija Kostanic 1 December 2025 7 mins read

Outsourcing has been a “very natural and organic course of growth” for many regional tech […]

Ecosystem

12,000 Startups and 8 Unicorns: Has the Balkans Reached Growth Plateau or Next-Level Maturity?

By Ana Marija Kostanic 14 November 2025 5 mins read

According to the newest report from tech market intelligence company Innotechnics, the Balkan startup ecosystem […]

Interview

e2vc Principal Tunya Irkad on Getting Into VC and Funding “Insane Founders”

By Ana Marija Kostanic 10 November 2025 7 mins read

“People often ask how I got into VC straight out of college. Truth is, it’s […]

AI

From Seed to Exit: Croatian-Founded SplxAI Acquired by Cloud Behemoth Zscaler

By Ana Marija Kostanic 3 November 2025 3 mins read

SplxAI, the fast-rising Croatian-founded company specializing in securing AI applications and large language models (LLMs), […]

AI

How Smart Can AI Be With Our Knowledge?

By Ana Marija Kostanic 28 October 2025 5 mins read

The important question about the implementation of AI in various fields, isn’t just “how smart […]

AI

TEDAI Vienna: Joscha Bach on Avoiding the Dot-Com Trap in the Age of AI

By Ana Marija Kostanic 23 October 2025 10 mins read

The dizzying speed of the current AI boom has led many to question whether we […]