STARTUPS
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Investors
REPORT
Report: €900M of funding was invested in CEE startups in 2Q 2021
INVESTMENT
EIF, SID Banka and HBOR launch €40M investment platform for scientific research in Slovenia and Croatia
POLITICS
Bulgaria signed Declaration for more favorable conditions for startups
INVESTMENT
American Fintech buys Bulgarian Transact for €30M
Investment
Israeli travel tech startup Bookaway raises $35 million
ACCELERATOR
Innovation Capital invests up to €100k to accelerate consumer goods projects
Investment
Romanian-based travel start-up Framey has raised a $1M
Investment
Untitled Ventures to invest 118$ million in Eastern Eruropean startups
VENTURE CAPITAL
Vitosha Venture Partners with €30k funding for Early-Stage startups
Apps
Robinhood seeks stock market valuation of $ 35 billion
Apps
Mega deal: Zoom buys cloud provider Five9 for $ 14.7 billion
Startups
“Just Eat Takeaway” acquires Slovak delivery service bistro.sk
Fintech
Revolut raises 675 million euros in a mega financing round
Investors
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Investors
Dutch challenger bank bunq raises close to EUR 200m
FUNDING ROUND
Catalyst Romania II invests EUR 1.2m in SeedBlink
UNICORN
Danish fintech startup Pleo becomes Europe’s latest unicorn hitting $1.7b valuation
VENTURE CAPITAL
Belgium’s Spadel, owner of Bulgarian bottled water maker Devin, launches EUR 10m venture capital fund
STATS
Invest Europe: Private equity invests in record number of CEE startups & scaleups in 2020
FUNDING ROUND