Ecosystem | Die Player und Regeln, die das Ökosystem prägen

To summarize, the short answer was rather no. ©Andy Beales,Unsplash

myth busting

Would a Senior Developer in Bulgaria Leave a Secure Job to Join a Startup for Stock Options?

Herwig Springer, Managing Director i5invest. © Tamás Künsztler

Vienna ❤️ Sofia

Austrian Startup and M&A Consultant i5invest Launches Operations in Bulgaria

Besides training and funding, Climate KIC gives access to a wide network of like-minded entrepreneurs and green tech hubs across Europe. ©Pixabay

Ecosystem

Teams and Startups with Environment-Friendly Business Ideas Can Now Apply for up to €50K Grants

Over 200 data scientists, researchers and developers will take part in the first global datathon aiming to tackle the issue with propaganda and manipulative news. ©Pixabay

seeking for solutions

Data Science Versus Manipulative News

Irina Obushtarova and Alexandra Kozbunarova will lead the operations of Trending Topics Bulgaria. The Trending Team continues to grow © Raffael Stiborek

Launch

Guten Tag, Bulgaria! Trending Topics’ Newsroom is Expanding East. – Let’s Rock the Region!

All of SAP efforts to nurture relationship with startup ecosystems have started gaining a more structured form in the past three years and now the company has five programs that are in one way or another related to entrepreneurship. © headway, unsplash

Corporate Acceleration

Will SAP Reach Out to Startup Ecosystems in CEE in 2019?

The Bulgarian Tech & Digital Diaspora has many faces and not all of them appear in the media stream ©BVCA

Faces of the week

Who is Out There: Stories From The Tech & Digital Diaspora

We asked the BVCA network from all over the globe and got some encouraging answers. #diaspora

video story

What Makes The Bulgarian Startup Ecosystem Attractive

According to Nedyalko Dervenkov, Board Member of BESCO, Bulgaria is far behind the rest of EU in terms of startup friendly legislation, but could serve as a good example for the Balkan region. ©BESCO

Interview

The Bulgarian Startup Association: It’s Realistic to Pass the Startup Visa Package in 2019

Guest Author Elena Nikolova recommends taking time for yourself and going for an exchange program ©Pixabay

Guest article

One Resolution to Keep in 2019

Acquisitions and exits are those magical and widely celebrated moments when a well performing company gets some cash to continue being a great business. @Pixabay

Overview

M&A Deals in the Bulgarian Tech Ecosystem in 2018

Overview

The Excitement Seeds of 2018 and the Harvest of 2019

Diaspora

Three Personal Stories: Why Entrepreneurs Come Back to Bulgaria After the Valley

These VCs are proactively looking for investments in Bulgarian companies abroad because they see it as a potential to grow the local ecosystem©Pixabay

Strategy

Why the Bulgarian VCs like the Diaspora so Much

Trending Topics Christmas Mailbox

Campaign

We are Launching a Christmas Mailbox for Stories from The Bulgarian Tech & Entrepreneurship Diaspora

The first alumni created the Association of Bulgarian Leaders and Entrepreneurs (ABLE) to stay in contact. © ABLE

Opportunity

SEP is Back in New Form: The Pre-Acceleration Program That Doesn’t Require a Team or a Particular Business Idea

This year the Bulgarian ecosystem has celebrated a lot of success stories from around the world. ©Unsplash

List

Top 5 Trending Diaspora Stories of 2018

Innovation Accelerator Bulgaria is a project of innovation consultant Leona Aslanova ©Innovation Starter

funding

Innovation Accelerator Bulgaria Will Invest at Least €15M in Pre-Seed Ventures in the Next Five Years

Maria Marinova, Director of the Bulgarian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association ©BVCA

Interview

Connecting the Diaspora Dots

Bogomil Balkansky is a well-known name in the Bulgarian but also US tech ecosystem and is also involved in the creation of a new Bulgarian center for entrepreneurship and innovation in the Valley ©Digitalk

Face of the week

Bogomil Balkansky – Bulgaria’s First Honorary Consul in the Silicon Valley

Coursedot was founded in 2015 by Teodor Panayotov to be an online marketplace for IT training courses ©Pexels

EdTech

US Unicorn Pluralsight Partners with Bulgarian Startup Coursedot to Enhance IT Training in Eastern Europe