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Investors

South Central Ventures announces new €70M technology fund to help Western Balkans’ startups reach global markets

By Bojan Stojkovski 2 March 2022 2 mins read

Regional venture capital fund manager South Central Ventures (SCV) announced a new € 70M worth […]

Podcasts

How to build a brand people trust with Peter Mitev from Chaos

By The Recursive 1 March 2022 2 mins read

Today, on The Recursive podcast we welcome one of the few engineers to have walked […]

Investors

Bogomil Balkansky from Sequoia Capital on the first principles of building great startups

By Etien Yovchev 1 March 2022 14 mins read

Bulgaria has its first unicorn in the face of Payhawk! This is also unicorn number […]

Fintech

Payhawk Is Officially Bulgaria’s First Unicorn

By Elena Ivanova 1 March 2022 6 mins read

•     Less than 4 years – this is how much time it took for […]

Fintech

Adrian Cighi, co-founder of Pago, on what is next for digital payments: Our biggest competitor is habit

By Elena Vrabie 28 February 2022 10 mins read

Fintech was the second biggest vertical in SEE when it came to funding rounds in […]

Future of Work

The AI workplace collaboration startup Mentessa raises €1M to take on Slack

By Elena Ivanova 28 February 2022 5 mins read

Mentessa, the Munich-based AI platform for workplace collaboration, raised a €1M seed round led by […]

Blockchain

Romanian Bware Labs raised a €6M Series A to encourage the blockchain ecosystem to grow

By Elena Vrabie 28 February 2022 3 mins read

Bucharest-based Bware Labs, which offers a blockchain API (application programming interface), has raised over €6M […]

SPONSORED R&D Destinations

7Security: How this Bulgarian startup launched its business in Austria

By Austrian Business Agency 28 February 2022 2 mins read

The home country of the founders is not always the best market for startups to […]

Social Impact

How crypto turned into alternative to fund support for Ukrainians on the ground

By Antoanela Ionita 25 February 2022 3 mins read

Cryptocurrency is making steps towards becoming an alternative mechanism of fundraising for humanitarian aid. In […]

Sustainability

How device-as-a-service helps businesses fight waste, with INKI’s Liviu Huluta

By Antoanela Ionita 25 February 2022 6 mins read

There’s a lot of talk around the circular economy lately but one key takeaway for […]

Ecosystem

The tech communities in the region in support of people in Ukraine

By Antoanela Ionita 25 February 2022 8 mins read

These are dark days for Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Major cities in Ukraine […]

Ecosystem

Confusion and bewilderment for Ukrainian startups following Russian invasion

By Bojan Stojkovski 24 February 2022 5 mins read

On the morning of February 24, 2022 people across Ukraine woke up to a new […]