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Startups

Teodor Panayotov from Coursedot on closing a $1M round and helping businesses upskill their talents

By Elena Ivanova 25 June 2021 7 mins read

Coursedot, a Bulgarian marketplace for professional IT upskill courses, raised $1M in Series A round […]

Startups

BrightCap Ventures invests in Bulgarian MLOps startup Efemarai that tests algorithms to avoid mistakes

By Viktoria Kuzmanova 23 June 2021 5 mins read

Machine learning operations startup Efemarai announced closing a pre-seed round, led by the Bulgarian VC […]

Investors

LAUNCHub Ventures with second closing of its €70M fund, IFC joins the limited partners list

By Etien Yovchev 20 June 2021 2 mins read

Sofia-based venture capital firm LAUNCHub Ventures has announced the second closing of its new, CEE-oriented […]

Startups

AI startup 2Parts gets €50K from Innovation Capital to help businesses get over manual data entry

By Elena Ivanova 17 June 2021 4 mins read

Day-to-day accounting is usually associated with hours of keyboard typing, data processing, and entry – […]

Deals

Vitosha Venture Partners backs 13 Bulgarian startups with €2.7M

By Elena Ivanova 17 June 2021 8 mins read

Vitosha Venture Partners, one of the newest Bulgarian early-stage VCs, officially announced the second batch […]

Sustainability

Sustainable urban mobility in the SEE: Trends & local players

By Antoanela Ionita 16 June 2021 11 mins read

Sustainable urban mobility is a key task for all European cities, as part of the […]

Smart Cities

Sofia becomes a sandbox city for the co-creation of sustainable urban solutions

By Elena Ivanova 16 June 2021 3 mins read

According to unofficial data, around 25% of the total housing capacity of Sofia is taken […]

SPONSORED Startups

Ten companies enter Endeavor Bulgaria’s growth accelerator program

By Endeavor Bulgaria 15 June 2021 4 mins read

Endeavor Bulgaria announced the ten companies which will enter its 4-months-long “Dare to Scale” acceleration […]

Inside The Recursive

How to pitch an idea for a guest article to The Recursive

By Zornitsa Stoilova 14 June 2021 3 mins read

The Recursive platform is open to external content creators who want to share their expert […]

Investors

BlackPeak Capital’s SEE Growth Equity Fund achieves first closing towards €120M target

By Antoanela Ionita 14 June 2021 3 mins read

BlackPeak Capital, a private equity investment fund with a focus on SEE, completed a €68.5 […]

Gaming

Leanplum CEO: Our goal is to become a unicorn

By Etien Yovchev 14 June 2021 9 mins read

Headquartered between San Francisco and Sofia, customer engagement platform Leanplum has so far received over […]

SPONSORED Fintech

Debt Collection Innovation: Trends, Insights, and Key Players in Southeast Europe

By Visa Innovation Program 9 June 2021 22 mins read

In this deep dive, we explore how technology is used to improve debt collection and who are the main innovators and latest trends in the field.