albania 11 articles

Leadership

Balkan Startup Story: How Internet Company Gjirafa is Preparing for IPO

By Elena Ghinita 14 May 2024 4 mins read

When thinking of a fast-growing company from the Western Balkans, Gjirafa might come to your […]

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

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 […]

Ecosystem

How a former refugee from Kosovo built the fastest-growing company in the Western Balkans

By Elena Ivanova 6 June 2022 6 mins read

Entrepreneurs have a nose for untapped opportunities and unrealized market potential. Some of them are […]

AI

How the startup Zana uses conversational AI technology to help both patients and doctors

By Bojan Stojkovski 3 May 2022 4 mins read

One of the most popular uses of technology in healthcare has been to improve it, […]

Ecosystem

10 startups from the Western Balkans to watch for in 2022

By Bojan Stojkovski 21 March 2022 5 mins read

One of the main goals of the Western Balkans Investment Readiness Program is to put […]

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

Startups

How the Western Balkans Investment Readiness Program can help regional startups attract investors

By Bojan Stojkovski 22 December 2021 4 mins read

Lack of private capital has been one of the biggest challenges for most startups across […]

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 […]