The Budapest-based platform, already used by more than 600,000 students in over 30 countries, plans to expand across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is one of the year’s biggest applied AI showcases, bringing together AI enterprises, unicorns and startups building the infrastructure, frontier models, and full stack AI solutions across industries.
A landmark proposal to create a single European company form is caught between its promise of radical simplicity for startups and a parliamentary push for safeguards that critics fear could dilute its very purpose.
Events, investors, free zones, councils, and trade agencies: in this listicle, we start mapping the initiatives and stakeholders building the bridges between Central and Eastern European communities.
Lithuanian deep-tech startup Litilit has secured an €8M loan from ILTE to advance R&D and make its femtosecond laser technology more scalable for industrial applications.
Romania, Poland, and Czechia now have quantum computers running or incoming. As Q2B, the industry's benchmark quantum event, heads to the Nordics for the first time, CEE has more to bring to the table than the global conversation gives it credit for.
Sheryl Sandberg is backing Bulgarian entrepreneur Vince Gaydarzhiev’s second venture, Self Inspection, as the AI startup looks to expand its vehicle inspection platform into Europe.
Of the four drivers of AI capability that are coming, Europe can realistically play a role in agentic orchestration. Everything else depends on closing the adoption gap fast enough to matter.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
EU banks are embedding AI into core operations, but overlapping rules like DORA and the AI Act leave regulators with a headache: supervising it all consistently. Can Europe align its oversight before cracks show?
Founders spend weeks perfecting their pitch deck, yet often only minutes researching the people reading it. That imbalance can cost more than a weak presentation.
Long known as a physical bridge between continents, Türkiye is expanding beyond simple transit routes. Fueled by homegrown unicorns and targeted investments, the nation is shifting focus from passing along physical goods to anchoring Eurasia's tech network.
New York Times bestselling author Nir Eyal explores how beliefs shape founders’ relationship with luck, failure, and persistence, and why Silicon Valley may see failure differently.
The Gulf adopts technology quickly, but the decision follows the relationship rather than the pitch. Romanian founder Antonia Dumitriu shares her journey of entering the GCC, adapting the product to local privacy norms, and learning why the meetings had to happen in person.
The EU's grace period for DORA compliance is officially over. As regulators launch automated cross-checks, nearly half of all financial entities face massive penalties, and even tech giants like AWS aren't safe. Are your operations ready for active enforcement?
Who's leading, who's catching up, and what can we learn from this year's European Innovation Scoreboard? Here's a quick look at the trends shaping innovation across Europe and the region.
How is digital transformation changing consumer lending, and what role will AI and human judgment play in the future of banking?
In this episode of The Recursive Podcast, we sit down with Mircea Gologan, Head of Consumer Lending Business at DSK Bank, to explore how one of Bulgaria's largest banks is rethinking lending in an increasingly digital and data-driven world.
In this conversation, you will hear about:
✓ How DSK combines customer feedback, behavioral analytics, and automated credit decision-making to deliver more personalized financial services. ✓ How banks balance digital innovation with responsible lending practices. ✓ How traditional banks are responding to growing competition from fintech companies. ✓ The growing role of AI-powered assistants in banking and financial services. ✓ Why human expertise remains essential in an increasingly automated industry. ✓ What the next generation of consumer lending could look like.
AI is transforming how companies operate, make decisions, and interact with customers. But as businesses rush to adopt new tools and increasingly autonomous AI agents, a critical question emerges: Are they moving faster than their security and governance can keep up?
In this episode of The Recursive's Roundtable, we explore the growing tension between innovation and control, and what it takes to adopt AI responsibly without slowing down progress.
The discussion brings together three experts from the AI, technology, and telecommunications sectors:
The conversation explores the risks of shadow AI, the differences in risk appetite between startups and large enterprises, and the challenges of protecting sensitive corporate and personal information. The speakers also discuss the role of trust, employee education, and human oversight, as well as AI's potential to strengthen cybersecurity by identifying vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
Key topics discussed:
☑️ Innovation vs. regulation: Is Europe's approach to AI governance slowing down innovation and putting European companies at a competitive disadvantage?
☑️ Data privacy and shadow AI: What happens to sensitive corporate and personal data shared with AI tools, and how can companies manage the risks?
☑️ AI agents and human oversight: How much autonomy should businesses give AI systems, and when should humans remain in control?
☑️ Trust, risk, and cybersecurity: How can companies balance AI adoption with security, and can AI itself become a tool for identifying and preventing cyber threats?
Three guests, three very different jobs, one thing in common: they're all in their twenties and already taking on a level of responsibility that usually comes later in a career.
In this episode of The Recursive Roundtable, we talk with Viktoriya Markileva (Head of Space Services at EnduroSat), Georgi Nichev (Marketing Specialist at Helios Marine, Co-Founder of Scylla), and Maria Nikolova (Strategic Partnerships Development Manager at BESCO) about what it's actually like to be trusted with real responsibility this early — what makes someone trust you with it, how they handle it, and whether a career needs to follow a clear path at all.
In this episode, we explore:
🟣 How Gen Zs think about failure, 🟣 what hustle culture looks like from the inside, 🟣 what progress actually means to them, 🟣 and whether they'd be willing to wait years for the next step in their career.
💡 This conversation is essential for entrepreneurs looking to hire young talent, and for any Gen Z professionals wondering if they are ready to take the leap into a leadership role.
