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Diaspora

Disrupting ‘Boring’ Industries: How Deyan Dimitrov Turned Dirty Socks Into Profit

By Teodora Atanasova 5 May 2026 4 mins read

Laundry doesn’t usually make headlines. It doesn’t attract hype cycles, speculative capital, or founders chasing […]

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The CEE Startup Superpower: Cultural Weakness becomes Competitive Edge

By Felicia Olteanu 4 May 2026 5 mins read

In a region where questioning authority is discouraged, creating a psychologically safe culture becomes a […]

Energy

Are Energy Communities the Next “Booking” for Electricity?

By Lenka Vranová 14 April 2026 5 mins read

In the rapidly evolving world of renewable energy, a new model is moving from the […]

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Vlad Gozman on Disrupting Mature Markets, 180° Pivoting, and Not Taking VC Money

By Ana Marija Kostanic 2 April 2026 7 mins read

From the early days of EU consulting to navigating the VR craze of 2016, career […]

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Inflammaging in Clinical Practice: GlycanAge’s New Data

By Teodora Atanasova 30 March 2026 7 mins read

Inflammaging in Clinical Practice: Bringing the Science to Clinicians Two decades before longevity became a […]

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“Ability to Articulate a Vision and Build a Brand Is Just as Critical as the Code Architecture”

By Ana Marija Kostanic 24 March 2026 9 mins read

Building a globally competitive gaming company from Serbia struck most as wishful thinking back in […]

Web3

“Users’ Trust is Not a Byproduct of Growth”

By Ana Marija Kostanic 10 March 2026 8 mins read

“The rifle. Air rifle 10m, inside, and 5.6-millimetre calibre on 50m, outside.” While preparing for […]

Ecosystem

“If Bulgarian Entrepreneurial Association Were a Startup, We’d Be in the Scaling Phase”

By Teodora Atanasova 5 March 2026 6 mins read

Since the mid-2010s, Bulgaria has seen a steady increase in the entrepreneurial activity. The county […]

AI

“Frankfurt Is Our Gateway to Growth”: Bulgarian Sirma Takes Its AI Ambitions Pan-European

By Teodora Atanasova 27 February 2026 4 mins read

Over 33 years ago, a group of university friends from Bulgaria set out to establish […]

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North Macedonian Eliza Prendzov on Shifting From Diplomacy to Wall Street

By Kristiana Kuneva 25 February 2026 4 mins read

Post-Dream is a column by Kristiana Kuneva about New York beyond the glitter — where […]

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EIC Ambassador on Europe’s Climate Tech Shift: Why Companies Are Building at Home

By Teodora Atanasova 17 February 2026 5 mins read

Europe’s climate ambitions are running up against a growing reality: the continent is not fully […]

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Why Is a $700M Startup “Testing” Its AI in the Balkans?

By Ana Marija Kostanic 10 February 2026 7 mins read

Wonderful, the Amsterdam-based platform for autonomous enterprise AI agents, which secured $134 million in total […]