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Smart Cities

Are digital twins the future of physical assets and infrastructure management?

By Elena Ivanova 29 March 2021 4 mins read

Cities, companies, and public authorities are beginning to see what benefits can derive from the […]

Events

Innovation Academy: the educational competition set to scale youth entrepreneurship in Bulgaria

By Viktoria Kuzmanova 26 March 2021 3 mins read

How can young entrepreneurs build their skills and knowledge in order to be able to […]

Sustainability

Can decentralized production be the answer to sustainable and affordable energy?

By Elena Ivanova 24 March 2021 4 mins read

Due to the generous Green Deal investments from the European Innovation Council, the increasing need […]

Social Impact

New funding opportunity for applied robotics and AI science in Bulgaria

By Viktoria Kuzmanova 23 March 2021 2 mins read

The America for Bulgaria Foundation has launched the second edition of its “Science with a […]

Startups

Yotpo is now a unicorn with Bulgarian SMSBump as its fastest-growing portfolio product

By Etien Yovchev 18 March 2021 3 mins read

It’s been just over a year since Bulgarian SMS marketing automation platform SMSBump was acquired […]

Corporate Innovation

TBI Bank expands digitally throughout Europe

By Viktoria Kuzmanova 18 March 2021 3 mins read

How can banks efficiently become digital? According to a 2020 report on the digital challenges […]

Fintech

SumUp raises €750M in debt to expand affordable POS solutions to more merchants

By Elena Ivanova 17 March 2021 2 mins read

The London-based international mobile point-of-sale company SumUp that has its R&D team located in Sofia […]

Smart Cities

Smart city programming: what is the next generation of SEE coders working on?

By Elena Ivanova 12 March 2021 3 mins read

Many successful startups have sprung from hackathons and there are abundant examples of such stories […]

Sustainability

Plan A raises $3M to help more businesses turn sustainability into competitive advantage

By Elena Ivanova 9 March 2021 3 mins read

The B2B carbon reduction software Plan A that is co-founded by the Bulgarian Lubomila Jordanova, […]

SPONSORED Fintech

Facial biometric payments startup PayByFace launches a pilot with one of the biggest banks in Bulgaria

By Elena Ivanova 9 March 2021 2 mins read

Biometrics are entering the fintech realm and the existence of startups that develop such technologies […]

Fintech

“From Zero to Fintech” hackathon aims to make Bulgaria a tech-savvy nation

By Elena Ivanova 5 March 2021 3 mins read

In just one day, the Bulgarian Fintech Association together with the Faculty of Economic and […]

Health

Halo Dx raises $19M in Series A to improve the diagnosis of serious illnesses with ML imaging

By Elena Ivanova 5 March 2021 3 mins read

The US-based startup for advanced image-based diagnostics Halo Diagnostics (Halo Dx) whose engineering team is […]