Interview 35 articles

Ecosystem

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

By Teodora Atanasova 9 October 2025 6 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 […]

Deep Tech

Romanian DeepTech .lumen Secured the CE Certification – What Does it Mean?

By Elena Ghinita 27 May 2025 5 mins read

.lumen, a Romanian deep tech company developing assistive wearable technology for the visually impaired, has […]