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Bojan is The Recursive’s Western Balkans Editor, covering tech, innovation, and business for more than a decade. He’s currently exploring blockchain, Industry 4.0, AI, and is always open to covering diverse and exciting topics in the Western Balkans countries. His work has been featured in global media outlets such as Foreign Policy, WSJ, ZDNet, and Balkan Insight.

Bojan Stojkovski

Founded in 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio by Anevski and co-founders Alex Pantich and Nick Jordanovski, today Upshift is disrupting the $150 billion worth recruiting industry with its solution that matches temporary workers with open positions.

How Macedonian-founded startup Upshift disrupts the $150bn recruiting industry

By Bojan Stojkovski 18 April 2022 4 mins read

Difficulties for finding the appropriate staff was what drove Upshift’s co-founder and CEO Steve Anevski […]

Media AI company Sensika Technologies provides actionable insights to companies, communication agencies and public sector entities, extracted from media content that is outside of their control: on websites, social networks, TV, radio stations and other alternative external data sources.

Sensika, using AI to make media content actionable for business, targets expansion in the DACH market

By Bojan Stojkovski 15 April 2022 4 mins read

Navigating through an ocean of media information on a specific topic can often prove to […]

Greek translation platform Transifex eyes growth after acquisition by PARC Partners

Greek translation platform Transifex eyes growth after acquisition by PARC Partners

By Bojan Stojkovski 14 April 2022 3 mins read

Greek translation and localization automation platform Transifex has been acquired by US search fund PARC […]

North Macedonia’s first IT college and edutech company Brainster Next is making an investment of €2.5M over the next 5 years in an effort to provide accessible and quality higher education in information science

Brainster Next invests €2.5M in providing quality higher IT education in North Macedonia

By Bojan Stojkovski 13 April 2022 3 mins read

North Macedonia’s first IT college and edutech company Brainster Next is making an investment of […]

Bulgaria’s GATE Institute, as a part of NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), is now officially a test center for the Alliance in the field of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Bulgaria’s GATE Institute becomes NATO test center for big data and AI

By Bojan Stojkovski 12 April 2022 3 mins read

Bulgaria’s GATE Institute, as a part of NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic […]

the use of robotic and remote-controlled equipment is pushing the boundaries in the underground mining industry and strives to protect human lives.

How innovative robots, made in Croatia, are changing the underground mining industry

By Bojan Stojkovski 8 April 2022 3 mins read

“Don’t send a man to do a machine’s job” is the motto of Croatian engineering […]

UK-based insect tech startup Better Origin raised €16M in a latest funding round led by British VC Balderton and previous investors, Greek VC Metavallon and Germany-based Fly Ventures.

Greek-founded Better Origin raises $16M to fuel the future of food production

By Bojan Stojkovski 7 April 2022 2 mins read

UK-based insect tech startup Better Origin raised $16M in a latest funding round led by […]

In this article, we take a look at some of the most prominent and promising innovative manufacturing startups and companies working to innovate the production of goods.

6 startups and companies in manufacturing innovation to watch in 2022

By Bojan Stojkovski 6 April 2022 4 mins read

The manufacturing industry is probably one of the slowest industries to adopt digitalization trends. According […]

When the Bulgarian company Transmetrics started out in 2013, its co-founders had a vision about redefining how the logistics sector worked.

How AI and predictive analytics are redefining logistics

By Bojan Stojkovski 29 March 2022 5 mins read

When the Bulgarian company Transmetrics started out in 2013, its co-founders had a vision about […]

Wellness innovation company Better & Better announced that it raised $4M in a latest funding round.

$4M investment for Serbian entrepreneur Vladimir Vukicevic’s wellness innovation company Better & Better

By Bojan Stojkovski 28 March 2022 2 mins read

Wellness innovation company Better & Better announced that it raised $4M in a latest funding […]

Women in Tech - Arijana Koskarova

Women in Tech: Arijana Koskarova, founder of Creative Hub, “There is no such thing as failure or success. We just live another day to fight for our dreams”

By Bojan Stojkovski 24 March 2022 6 mins read

In this new “Women in Tech” series, we will introduce you to talented tech professionals […]

With gaming and blockchain as focal points, Serbian startup ecosystem attracts record levels of investments

By Bojan Stojkovski 22 March 2022 4 mins read

Last year was one of the most successful ones for the Serbian startup ecosystem as […]

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