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Overview

The Excitement Seeds of 2018 and the Harvest of 2019

Noble’s plans sound close to too ambitious, but the core team consists of rather experienced founders who have been around in the ecosystem failing and succeeding since its very beginning, which makes it all more plausible. ©Noble

Funding

Bulgarian Noble has Raised €250K to Bring the Talent Wars in the Blockchain Dimension

Alexander Terziyski ©BVCA

Funding

NEVEQ 3: New Vision Fund has at Least €20M fresh capital for AI, Blockchain and Fintech Startups

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

The very same code Ivan Nikolov (in the middle) started writing alone in 2017 is today a Sofia-based company of 50 people called FantasticStay. ©FantasticStay

hidden champion

FantasticStay: How This Startup Benefits Big Time from Airbnb, Booking & Co.

Could Colibra's team break the vicious circle in insurance industry? ©Colibra

Investment

Bulgarian Colibra Has Just Raised €250K and is Running for Licenсe to Put Insurances on Blockchain

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

Revolut is expanding its currency portfolio in CEE and will soon launch Bulgarian lev, Dimitris Litsikakis, Country Manager Greece at Revolut ©CEE Block

Fintech

Revolut Starts Offering Traditional Banking Services and Will Roll Out In Bulgaria as Soon as it Obtains a Local Currency License

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

Interview

Connecting the Diaspora Dots

Alex Galin (m) joined a team of 10 in April and since then Gtmhub has grown to 25 people and has closed a $1.2M seed round ©Gtmhub

Interview

Gtmhub: New Software, 30-Years Old Management System and $1.3M Investments

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

One of the most popular myths is that European founders are leaving to persue the unicorn dream in the US ©Pixabay

Study

Best European Founders Want to Go to Silicon Valley and Other Myths of the European Ecosystem

Smart pinguin Charlie has reveived another round to continue reduce financial anxiety among young adults ©Charlie Finance

Diaspora

Led by Bulgarian Entrepreneur US Smart Finance Startup Charlie has Just Raised $9M

Wilfried Durand is also the co-founder of The French Tech Sofia community©Trending Topics

face of the week

Wilfried Who Chose Sofia Over His €17M Startup in Paris and Started Investing in the Local Ecosystem

The Eleven Ventures Team ©Eleven Ventures

investments

Eleven Ventures Has Just Put €1.25M Into 8 Companies

Todor Kolev, chair of Comrade Cooperative, had an idea on how to turn Bulgaria into the next Silicon Valley ©Trending Topics

Interview

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: “Everything from greengrocery to tech company could be operated this way”

"Over the next two to three years we will see a much more vivid Fintech scene worldwide and also in South East Europe, including Romania and Bulgaria. We will support those pioneers with our products in order to help them scale their businesses up”, Sergey Panteleev, GM of Varengold Sofia, stated.©Varengold

Expansion

Fintech Centric German Bank Varengold Launches Bulgarian Operations

The Bulgarian digital ecosystem is maturing and becoming a vital part of the EU market ©EDIT

Report

Bulgarian Digital Ecosystem is Specializing in Machine Learning, Data and Platform Building

The Startup Europe Awards Ceremony was chaired by the European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel ©TrendingTopics

Competition

Two Bulgarian Startups Were Awarded During Startup Europe Summit

Lubomila Jordanova, founder of Plan A, a data driven platform that aims to channel capital to environmental causes

Face of the Week

Lubomila Jordanova Who Does Not Believe in Plan B for the Planet