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10 Biggest Funding Rounds in Romania (H1 2025): DRUID AI Leading the Top

By Ana Marija Kostanic 23 July 2025 5 mins read

Romanian top startups had a bit stronger start in 2025 than in 2024. FintechOS took […]

Defense Tech

“Someone Might Argue That Investing in a Pen Factory Is Dual-Use”

By Teodora Atanasova 21 July 2025 6 mins read

By mid to late 2023, Ukrainian units repurposed low-cost agricultural drones to launch 15 kg of […]

Deals

CEE Tech Weekly: Founders Abroad Making Global Headlines

By Teodora Atanasova 18 July 2025 3 mins read

Welcome to The Recursive’s new weekly roundup covering key tech developments across Central and Eastern […]

Others

Croatia Expands Venture Landscape with AYMO Ventures’ €52M Twin Fund Launch

By Ana Marija Kostanic 18 July 2025 3 mins read

Croatia got another VC fund! This week Croatian AYMO Ventures announced first closing of their […]

Defense Tech

Top 6 Defense and Dual-Use Tech Startups from CEE

By Teodora Atanasova 17 July 2025 3 mins read

Interest in security-focused innovation continues to build. In 2024, funding for European startups working in […]

Interview

The Most Powerful Room in Startupland? One Full of F*ckups

By Ana Marija Kostanic 17 July 2025 7 mins read

  99% of startups fail. How many times have you heard that line? Probably too […]

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€2M Investment Fuels Paypercut’s Mission to Simplify BNPL for Small Merchants

By Lenka Vranová 16 July 2025 2 mins read

Bulgarian-founded Paypercut raises €2M pre-seed to launch a BNPL aggregator for emerging Europe, streamlining pay-later […]

Travel Tech

I Scaled Startups Across Continents. Now I Help People Discover Africa

By Marina Cangelaris 16 July 2025 8 mins read

If you told me a few years ago that I’d go from scaling venture-backed startups […]

Events

Bulgaria Invests €92M in SME Digital Growth, Highlighted at “Digital Horizons” Forum

By Kristiana Kuneva 15 July 2025 3 mins read

It’s no secret that for years the Bulgarian ICT sector has been one of the […]

Guest Article

Dear Women, You Can (and Should) Reinvent Yourself. Linear Career Is Becoming a Relic

By Steliana Moraru 14 July 2025 5 mins read

In a world of constant transformation, the concept of a linear career is becoming a […]

Podcasts

How Burnout Reshapes Business ft. Juan Guerra

By The Recursive 11 July 2025 < 1 mins read

From selling mangoes in Venezuela as a kid to building a video agency in Vienna—and […]

Deals

Multicloud? Hybrid? Messy? Polish Spacelift Raised €43.6M to Orchestrate It All

By The Recursive 11 July 2025 2 mins read

The newest deal comes from Spacelift founded in Poland, headquatered in California, USA. 👯 Founder(s): […]