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Startups in Greece take off in 2021 with 6 exits, over €500M in funding, and unicorn valuations

By Found.ation 21 December 2021 8 mins read

The holiday season is almost here and many of us are already thinking about the […]

Leadership

Succession management or how to build the next generation of leaders in your organization

By Etien Yovchev 20 December 2021 6 mins read

“I started the process of succession planning and developing the organization’s next leaders on my […]

Climate Tech

The Big Picture: Which sustainability challenges we need to tackle in 2022

By Antoanela Ionita 20 December 2021 6 mins read

As 2021 draws to a close, progress on the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development […]

Leadership

The Future is something we make: Insights from the global deep tech challenge Hello Tomorrow

By Antoanela Ionita 20 December 2021 5 mins read

Ciprian Stanescu is the President of Social Innovation Solutions (SIS), an organization offering consultancy and […]

Startups

Vitosha Venture Partners invests €1.6M in eight Bulgarian startups

By Elena Ivanova 20 December 2021 6 mins read

The Sofia-based early-stage venture capital fund Vitosha Venture Partners completes a €1.6M  round of financing, […]

Edtech

Microlearning startup Code of Talent to expand globally with €1.7M Series A led by Catalyst Romania

By Antoanela Ionita 17 December 2021 3 mins read

Romanian microlearning platform Code of Talent closed a €1.7M Series A investment round led by […]

AI

Romanian .lumen receives €9M from the European Innovation Council to develop assistive technology for the blind

By Elena Vrabie 17 December 2021 3 mins read

.lumen, the Cluj-based AI research startup developing high-tech glasses that can assist blind people on […]

Startups

Gtmhub raises $120M in the largest funding round in the OKR software space

By Elena Ivanova 16 December 2021 5 mins read

In less than 12 months after closing a $30M Series B round, Gtmhub, the Bulgarian […]

Agritech

Turkish agritech Tarfin raises $8M to expand to Romania

By Elena Ivanova 16 December 2021 3 mins read

Tarfin, the Turkish agritech platform for flexible farmers financing through a Point of Sale (POS) […]

Diaspora

Nike acquired virtual shoemaker RTFKT to accelerate fashion in the metaverse

By Elena Vrabie 16 December 2021 3 mins read

American footwear manufacturing company Nike, Inc. acquired London-based startup RTFKT, which has Bulgarian DNA and […]

Retail

Germany-based Grovy brings instant delivery to Romania

By Antoanela Ionita 16 December 2021 3 mins read

Back in November, the entry of fast-delivery grocery player Rohlik in Romania was signaling the […]

Investors

Legendary music band Metallica invests in streaming company TrillerNet, the parent company of Bulgarian FITE

By Elena Vrabie 15 December 2021 3 mins read

Metallica, the legendary American heavy metal music band, has put its four decades of revenue […]