Interview 36 articles

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 […]

Ecosystem

What Can We Learn From Munich Startup Ecosystem and Its “Pay-It-Forward” Culture?

By Teodora Atanasova 9 October 2025 5 mins read

When Martin Giese speaks about startups, he rarely uses buzzwords. The longtime coach, investor, and […]

AI

TEDAI Vienna: Advait Sarkar on Designing AI That Challenges, So People Think (Better)

By Ana Marija Kostanic 30 September 2025 7 mins read

“I’m here today to talk about thinking for yourself,” opened Advait Sarkar, Senior Researcher at […]

Cybersecurity

Why Pen Testing Can’t Be a Checkbox Anymore: Plainsea’s Marko Simeonov on Building Continuous Security from the Inside Out

By Etien Yovchev 29 September 2025 6 mins read

Penetration testing is still being treated by many organizations as a once-a-year compliance exercise – […]

Ecosystem

The Fight Against Falsehoods Cannot be Left to Fact-checkers and Journalists Alone

By The Recursive 26 August 2025 3 mins read

Disinformation has the potential to sway elections and widen social divides (something we witness everyday). […]

Investors

What Sets Eurasia Apart From USA and (Central and Eastern) Europe

By Dilyana Haralanova 7 August 2025 5 mins read

Faced with currency volatility, limited late-stage funding, and fragmented markets, Eurasian founders tend to adopt […]

Interview

TEDAI Vienna with Alina Nikolaou and Vlad Gozman: Which Ideas About AI Are Worth Spreading?

By Ana Marija Kostanic 4 August 2025 6 mins read

In the gilded halls of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, chandeliers sparkle, frescoes gaze down, and the […]

Interview

“Who Controls the Skies, Controls the Future”: Inside Dronamics with Svilen Rangelov

By Teodora Atanasova 30 July 2025 6 mins read

In 2014, brothers Svilen and Konstantin Rangelov, co-founders of Bulgarian cargo drone airline Dronamics, made […]

Cybersecurity

Preparing for Cross-Border Cyberattacks: “Threats Don’t Occur in Isolation, They’re Part of Larger Systems”

By Ana Marija Kostanic 24 July 2025 7 mins read

As geopolitical tensions increasingly spill into cyberspace, a growing number of cybersecurity professionals are beginning […]

Interview

The Most Powerful Room in Startupland? One Full of F*ckups

By Ana Marija Kostanic 17 July 2025 7 mins read

  99% of startups fail. How many times have you heard that line? Probably too […]

Interview

We Killed OKRs – and the Company Got Better

By Ana Marija Kostanic 4 July 2025 5 mins read

By the time has·to·be was acquired for €250 million by ChargePoint in 2021, it had […]

Ecosystem

What Happens When a Founder Has to Go to The Front Line?

By Teodora Atanasova 25 June 2025 4 mins read

Ukraine’s tech and startup ecosystem is far from stagnant. It continues to grow and adapt […]