The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
CEE news
Duvo.ai has secured €12.86 million in seed funding to expand its AI-native automation platform that enables retail teams to automate operations across legacy systems, portals, and modern tools. The investment was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Credo Ventures, Northzone, and Puzzle Ventures, and several angel investors including Roy Reznik (co-founder of Wiz), David Singleton (former CTO of Stripe), Ajay Kavan (long time Amazon veteran), and Kieran Flanagan (former CMO of Zapier).
Ukrainian-founded EVE, the first Inbox Revenue Engine for B2B small businesses, has raised €2.06 million in a pre-seed investment round. The round included participation from DOMiNO Ventures, Firsthand Ventures, a16z’s Scout Fund, Acquisition.com Ventures, Geek Ventures, Founders Future, Punch Capital, Silicon Gardens and prominent angels, including co-founders of Slack and Hugging Face, and the former CEO of Oura.
Ukrainian-founded Sky Spy, a developer of compact SIGINT systems for congested, contested environments, has raised an oversubscribed €1.37 million pre-seed round to launch production and expand its team. The company tackles a major intelligence gap revealed in Ukraine, where traditional SIGINT has struggled in saturated signal environments. Its first product, Agent 001, was successfully validated on the frontline, detecting and geolocating hostile emitters such as UAS control stations and jammers.
Croatian Infinum continued its expansion with a focus on the United Kingdom and Western Europe. After starting the year with the acquisition of Dutch creative agency Your Majesty, they are closing it with the takeover of British AMR CyberSecurity.
Bulgarian-founded Tiger Technology has been named a winner of the 2025 CEE AWS Regional Partner Award, recognizing its role in driving innovation and delivering cloud solutions across Central and Eastern Europe. The AWS Regional Partner Awards highlight companies that demonstrate strong specialization, collaboration, and growth on AWS, with results evaluated by analyst firm Canalys.
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OpenAI entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Polish neptune.ai, a metrics dashboard platform founded in 2017 that tracks experiments and monitors training for frontier AI models.
Neptune will integrate its experiment-tracking system deep into OpenAI’s training stack, enabling researchers to compare thousands of runs and surface issues in real time. The acquisition brings Neptune’s eight-year focus on model development workflows directly into one of the world’s leading AI research organizations.
eNOugh, a London-based safety technology startup with a Bulgarian and Bosnian co-founders, has raised $2.7M (€2.32M) in pre-seed funding to bring its AI-powered wearable safety device, the eNO badge, to market. The round was led by A*Ventures, co-founded by serial entrepreneur and investor Kevin Hartz, an early backer of Airbnb and Pinterest, with participation from Comma Capital, Karman Ventures, Intuition VC, and several angel investors.
