Interview 55 articles

Interview

Vít Horký on the Three Pillars Every Startup Ecosystem Needs to Scale

By Teodora Atanasova 27 November 2025 4 mins read

We met with Vít Horký during Czech Startup Week 2025 in Prague where Engaged Investments […]

Ecosystem

Who Gets EIF Funding? Marcel Müller-Marbach on the VC Competitive Process

By Teodora Atanasova 19 November 2025 4 mins read

The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the European Investment Bank Group, has played a […]

Defense Tech

How Benjamin Wolba is Turning Hackathons into Europe’s Defense Tech Movement

By Teodora Atanasova 17 November 2025 6 mins read

In a few years, Ukraine’s wartime economy has shifted toward large-scale technological production. According to […]

Interview

e2vc Principal Tunya Irkad on Getting Into VC and Funding “Insane Founders”

By Ana Marija Kostanic 10 November 2025 7 mins read

“People often ask how I got into VC straight out of college. Truth is, it’s […]

Deals

Evrotrust Raises €6.6M to Roll Out the European Digital Identity Wallet in Bulgaria

By Teodora Atanasova 4 November 2025 4 mins read

Bulgarian digital identity provider Evrotrust has secured €6.6 million in new funding from 3TS Capital […]

Investors

Your Next Investment Is a Math Problem

By Teodora Atanasova 28 October 2025 4 mins read

From all the conferences The Recursive goes to, and all the investors we talk to, […]

AI

How Smart Can AI Be With Our Knowledge?

By Ana Marija Kostanic 28 October 2025 5 mins read

The important question about the implementation of AI in various fields, isn’t just “how smart […]

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). […]