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EIT Manufacturing CLC East and the Vienna Business Agency have developed a […]
Revo Capital became Turkey’s largest VC fund with the final closing of […]
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Future Present is an all-day event that shows the intersection between science […]
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For another year Career Show brings together the leading employers in Bulgaria […]
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For the eighth year, the Council of Women in Business in Bulgaria […]
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Open Banking continues to make progress despite the pandemic and last year’s […]
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Bucharest-based startup Vatis Tech has announced closing a round of over €200.ooo […]
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In July the leaders of Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia announced that […]
Croatian EV hypercar manufacturer and technology specialist Rimac Automobili is […]
US health-tech startup WHOOP, co-founded by a Romanian engineer and Harvard graduate […]
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Any EU startup, which covers the criteria of being a small or […]
The European Commission announced the first open call for proposals for the […]
VMware Bulgaria launches a program to support young software engineers and their […]
When it comes to food consumption and food waste, the statistics are […]
The Lipik Center for Artificial Intelligence in Croatia has now opened up […]
After a $31 million round of funding in June 2021, Croatian startup Gideon […]
Croatian startup Peekator has recently secured a seed investment of €300,000 by […]
As of August 2nd, 2021, the Romanian government starts issuing electronic identity […]
Romanian startup Stailer raised a pre-seed investment of €500.000 in a recent […]
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Romanian startup R-CREATE challenges traditional packaging by providing returnable […]
Vestbee, the biggest matchmaking platform for startups, VC funds, accelerators, and […]
EY (Ernst & Young) launches a new international leadership program to support […]
AlbaniaTech, the first platform of the Albanian Startup and Innovation Ecosystem, […]
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Croatia’s first center for innovation in tourism, the HUBBAZIA business incubator, […]
Eastern Europe becomes a more attractive place for investors and the possibilities […]
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Bulgarian student-run startup Wasteful and mini company Scribo from Slovakia won […]
BMW has announced the launch of its “Quantum Computing Challenge” in collaboration […]
The Serbian Innovation Fund is planning on allocating EUR 20m to develop […]
Nearly 70% of tech start-ups in Romania have experienced some level of […]
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Congrats! Or rather where do we go now? Starting from July 1st, […]
Bulgaria’s Health and Life Sciences Cluster fully supports the idea to set […]
On July 24-25, the entrepreneurial program ABLE ACTIVATOR will present its new […]
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E-commerce (electronic commerce) is an industry that unites all platforms and […]
New York-based crypto platform Celsius announced the acquisition of a development […]
In August 2021, 20 young people aged 19-30 will get together for […]
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Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has set up a EUR 10b fund to […]
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The European Commission (EC) and the AI, Data, and Robotics Association (ADRA) […]
Innovation performance keeps improving in EU member states and regions, with SEE […]
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After an unexpected pause (or maybe an opportunity?) for digital nomads in […]
Techcelerator, one of Romania’s leading tech startups accelerators, announced […]
Vitosha Venture Partners, one of the latest early-stage VCs in Bulgaria has […]
Scale-Up Europe, a group of some 200 startup founders, corporations, investment […]
ClusterPower, a Romanian cloud services startup, is planning to build a 200MW […]
Endeavor Bulgaria has announced the names of the 10 Bulgarian companies that […]
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Belgrade-based Nordeus, famous for its Top Eleven football management game, has set […]
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Under the motto “Together we impact”, North Macedonia held its 1st […]
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As with many other fields of life, the COVID-19 pandemic also brought […]
Agritech and agrifood startups in Romania received $4m in investments between 2019 […]
North Macedonia will hold its 1st National Startup Summit on Friday (May […]
European online startups are struggilng to overcome the complicated layers of EU […]
The number of women in Southeast Europe employed in the ICT industry […]
Innovative companies from Central & Eastern Europe have a chance to land […]
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Europe has often been flying under the radar when it comes to […]
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Foodtech has a lot of backers worldwide, with Europe traditionally lagging behind […]
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Startups in Croatia attracted over $170m in funding in Q1 2021, according […]
For the first time in history, the government in North Macedonia is […]
The bulk of Romanian VC funds continued to make investments in 2020 […]
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Serbian startups raised at least EUR 21.3 million in investments in 2020, […]
From chatbots, through medtech and agrotech, to self-driving cars, Artificial […]
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Social and economic changes, including the migration of people, have opened up […]
The Slovak and the Bulgarian robotics, automation & AI ecosystems are joining […]
Investment in European startups reached $21.4 in Q1 2021, up more than […]
Women startup founders in CEE outperform men by as much as 96% […]
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ViennaUP’21, the largest startup event in Central and Eastern Europe, is […]
Digital streaming network FITE, a product of Bulgarian Flipps Media, has made […]
The European Union intends to ban the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]
Launch, Romania’s community aimed to help startup founders succeed, is accepting […]
Bulgarian Innovation Hub (BIH), the Silicon Valley-based organization, which aims to […]
Dare to Scale, the growth program of global entrepreneurial network Endeavor, has […]
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Techcelerator, the largest accelerator in Romania for technology startups, expands […]
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The 8th EIT Digital Challenge, Europe’s leading deeptech startup competition, is now […]
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Aldea Ventures announced it has made a €60 million first close of […]
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This news amounts to a digital earthquake: Google announced that after phasing […]
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Romania has its new unicorn, although, unlike UiPath it wasn’t started in […]
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Progress, a multinational tech company with a strong presence in Bulgaria, announced […]
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Eleven Capital, the successor of the first Bulgarian acceleration fund Eleven, […]
760K This is an estimation of how many ICT professionals are missing […]
The Bulgarian capital city Sofia lands the third position after London and […]
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“To become a great product manager you need to have a good […]
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EIT Digital and the Bulgarian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association […]
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For the fourth year in a row, the Central European Startup Awards […]
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Vratsa Software Society started with a dream of two people to educate […]
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The Dutch food delivery service company Takeaway.com announced that it is in […]
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The crypto market is growing again and there is a new player […]
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Venture fundraising in Europe increased by 11% in 2018, reaching a new […]
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The global entrepreneurial organization Endeavor starts a growth program that aims […]
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One of the biggest tech investors in Bulgaria is preparing for another […]
The neobank Revolut continues its expansion in Bulgaria: it is looking for […]
The controversial EU Copyright reform leaps over the last hurdle and is […]
The European mini-acceleration program Startup Live is going on a tour again. […]
The Bulgarian capital city Sofia ranks 19 in Europe by the stock […]
The Bulgarian private IT and digital skills academy Software University (SoftUni) […]
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Telecom operator Vivacom has opened up a new space where citizens, business […]
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For the third time, the American NGO Ashoka, together with Schneider Electric […]
OneCoin, the hybrid Ponzi scheme, estimated to have attracted somewhere between […]
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Swiping left and right for like and dislike is a long established […]
With 348 votes for and 274 against (with 36 abstentions), the new […]
There are more than 600 million customers worldwide who pay for a […]
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The US pre-seed accelerator Founder Institute is opening its first office outside […]
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The second season of blockchain accelerator Startfleet is coming and seed stage […]
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The online applications for the next batch of the Climate-KIC accelerator are […]
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Between 2010 and 2016 a Summer Entrepreneurship Program (better known in Bulgaria […]
Innovation Accelerator Bulgaria, the investment vehicle led by consultant Leona […]
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