Etien Yovchev 75 articles

Future of Work

HR Talks with IT Leaders ep. 1: Boyko Iaramov on giving back, transparency and leadership

By Etien Yovchev 13 September 2021 4 mins read

HR Talks with IT leaders is a campaign organized in collaboration between The Recursive and […]

Sustainability

Drone inspection for efficiency in renewable energy: Greek Perceptual Robotics raises €1.87M

By Etien Yovchev 6 September 2021 3 mins read

Perceptual Robotics, a Greek startup providing autonomous drone inspection for wind turbines, has attracted €1.87M […]

Social Impact

Preventive tech can minimize the harm of wildfires. Why is mass adoption so slow?

By Etien Yovchev 24 August 2021 10 mins read

Prevention is better than cure. Yet, every year we are still waiting for wildfires to […]

Deals

Documaster with a €13M round and two acquisitions, to enable easy document finding for more businesses

By Etien Yovchev 17 August 2021 3 mins read

Norwegian-Bulgarian document and records management scaleup Documaster has raised a €13M private equity round at […]

SPONSORED Fintech

Biometric Payments: trends, insights, and key players in Southeast Europe

By Etien Yovchev 24 July 2021 21 mins read

Get into the biometric payments market in Southeast Europe and learn about the latest innovations around the world as well.

Dev Tribe

What are the most interesting problems you can work on as a developer in Bulgaria?

By Etien Yovchev 28 June 2021 < 1 mins read

As Bulgaria is transitioning from an IT outsourcing destination to an R&D hub for the […]

Sustainability

The stories of which Bulgarian cleantech startups should we tell in July?

By Etien Yovchev 28 June 2021 2 mins read

Sustainability innovation in Southeast Europe will be a big topic for The Recursive moving forward. […]

Investors

LAUNCHub Ventures with second closing of its €70M fund, IFC joins the limited partners list

By Etien Yovchev 20 June 2021 2 mins read

Sofia-based venture capital firm LAUNCHub Ventures has announced the second closing of its new, CEE-oriented […]

Deals

Startups from Southeast Europe have raised over $1.2B in the first half of 2021, more big rounds coming

By Etien Yovchev 20 June 2021 4 mins read

The first half of 2021 is almost gone, so it’s time to stop for a […]

Gaming

Leanplum CEO: Our goal is to become a unicorn

By Etien Yovchev 14 June 2021 9 mins read

Headquartered between San Francisco and Sofia, customer engagement platform Leanplum has so far received over […]

Deep Tech

Kuwait to launch its first space mission in late June in partnership with the Bulgarian EnduroSat

By Etien Yovchev 2 June 2021 3 mins read

Kuwait is about to launch its first-ever satellite mission at the end of June, supported […]

Diaspora

Community building at scale: Orbiit raises $2.7M, LAUNCHub Ventures also joins the round

By Etien Yovchev 28 May 2021 4 mins read

According to First Round’s State of Startup survey (conducted in 2019), communities are extremely important […]