Tirana 11 articles

Ecosystem

Albania Is Entering Startup Renaissance Driven by Returnees and Young Innovators

By Vikas Malhotra 20 September 2024 4 mins read

How many unicorns? Zero. How many world-class AI startups? Zero. OK, how many VC-funded startups […]

E-commerce

This Albanian Founder Wants To Change How Gen Zs Shop Online

By Bojan Stojkovski 16 August 2023 5 mins read

Besart Copa’s journey into e-commerce startups was not a result of brainstorming sessions centered on […]

Marketing & Sales

Scaling Through Bootstrapping? The Founder of Albanian Social Media Startup Publer Shows How

By Bojan Stojkovski 10 November 2022 8 mins read

Thirty-three-year-old Ervin Kalemi was always interested in software development, and less in entrepreneurship. However, it […]

Ecosystem

This Entrepreneur Says What Albania Needs To Unlock Its Next Growth Stage – And It’s Not a Unicorn.

By Bojan Stojkovski 31 October 2022 5 mins read

For Gerion Treska, the unpredictable world of entrepreneurship came naturally. The desire to explore how […]

Ecosystem

From Rock Bands to Software and Gaming: This Serial Entrepreneur Pushes Albania’s Ecosystem Forward

By Bojan Stojkovski 1 August 2022 4 mins read

For serial entrepreneur Engjell Rraklli, startups are much more than innovation. Тhey have a vast […]

Gaming

This female entrepreneur wants to put Albania on the gaming map

By Bojan Stojkovski 10 June 2022 3 mins read

As an avid game enthusiast, for Tirana-based tech entrepreneur Lorena Gjana it was difficult to […]

Startups

Albanian grocery delivery startup Hajde raises $1M in seed investment, looks to expand to North Macedonia

By Bojan Stojkovski 8 February 2022 2 mins read

Albanian food delivery startup Hajde raised $1M in seed investment, in a round led by […]

Leadership

Fabiola Duro, CEO of INNVEST, about empowering founders and startups in Albania

By Elena Vrabie 4 February 2022 7 mins read

“Innovation has no limits. It’s an extraordinary time for it as technological change and industry […]

Ecosystem

How ICT academies can help foster and develop the programming community in Albania

By Bojan Stojkovski 17 September 2021 3 mins read

For the last few years, Tirana-based software company division5 has been working on how to […]

Ecosystem

Albania’s young startup ecosystem shows potential, but needs to overcome pressing challenges

By Bojan Stojkovski 9 August 2021 5 mins read

As one of the countries with the biggest brain drain in the Western Balkans since 2010, Albania’s […]

Ecosystem

Inside the startup ecosystem of Albania: trends, main actors and next steps

By Etien Yovchev 10 March 2021 4 mins read

The Albanian startup ecosystem is still in its infancy but it shows potential, especially when […]