Weekly news: startups in Eastern Europe
Last week I skipped the weekly news because too much was happening at the Next Web and I can’t network and post at the same time (bloggers’ capacity issue at GoalEurope is being resolved). Funding news...
View ArticleWeekly news: startups in Eastern Europe
I have two weeks to catch up on. Let’s see. Deal flow Runa Capital backed Russian online language learning company LinguaLeo with $3 million to help expand globally. Big exits took place in Poland and...
View ArticleWinners of Webit Startup Challenge announced
We have been showing Webit Startup Challenge logo for a while now, and this month the conference organizers have selected the winners from over 500 applications from 50+ countries. Amongst the winners...
View ArticleWho hasn’t heard about Pioneers Festival yet? Startups should apply by 7th of...
I was a couple of months into blogging last year when I attended Startup Week Vienna, organized by StartEurope (Startup LiVE), the team behind this year’s Pioneers Festival. The event was, how shall I...
View ArticleWeekly news from startups (and large Internet businesses) in Russia and...
Yes, the headline did need changing. Just take a look at those funding rounds. Deal flow The Russian video entertainment service IVI.ru raised $40 million from a number of high profile Russian...
View ArticleSeedcamp arrives to Budapest, many CEE startups will pitch today
Here is a list of the CEE startups pitching at Seedcamp Budapest today. Here you can find the list of all startups which includes a familiar to me Railsonfire from Austria. Algernon, Budapest, Hungary...
View ArticleBalkan Mobile AppCamp winners announced
It seems as though we have too few good opportunities to feature events and news from Macedonia, so it’s nice to be able to report that Mobile AppCamp was held in Skopje, the capital, this past...
View ArticleSerbian VetCloud gets funded by Bulgarian accelerator
VetCloud, a Serbian startup working to develop cloud-based record management system for vets, has announced that it has raised 25,000 euros in funding from Eleven, a relatively-new Bulgarian startup...
View ArticleEastern European and Russian startups nominated for Europas Award
The Europas, the annual competition for the best in European tech, are due to be held in Berlin on January 22-23, 2013 and, as always, there are a number of entries from central and eastern Europe....
View ArticleBulgarian startup accelerator Eleven announced an odd number of new startups
Bulgarian accelerator venture fund Eleven has announced its class of 13 teams for this year, as reported by Netocratic. CaseTrek – A Serbian startup which aims to assist law firms in better managing...
View ArticleUser-generated review website Getlokal expands to Serbia
Getlokal, a series of user-generated review sites for southeastern Europe, announces a Serbian version of their service. They already maintain sites for Romania, Bulgaria, and Macedonia and recently...
View ArticleStartups that will compete at the Shift Challenge in Croatia tomorrow
A couple of months ago, we announced that the Shift Conference would be held on May 23rd in Split, Croatia. Thanks to information provided to us by one of the event’s organizers, Ivan Burazin, we can...
View ArticleTechCrunch Comes To The Balkans This Week
TechCrunch comes to the Balkans from today through Wednesday and then Friday for TechCrunch Meetup Balkans, hosted by Netocratic. As we noted in our post about the RockPaperStartups conference, which...
View ArticleIndian Embassy Group Opens IT Park In Serbia
Indian property-developer Embassy Group has opened IT Park Indjija, a state-of-the-art business park which hopes to attract businesses to Indjija, a suburb of Belgrade. According to Kaushik Haritha,...
View ArticleEastern Europe Comes To London Seedcamp Week
London Seedcamp Week just finished up last week and there was a presence from Central and Eastern Europe, with Futurelytics, TruckTrack, and GateMe obtaining funding and Language Accelerator,...
View ArticleSerbian Startup Accelerator StartLabs Opens To Take Startups Global
StartLabs, a recently-opened first Serbian accelerator in Belgrade which counts Voja Lalich and Nebojsa Lazic as partners, starts to accept applications for $50K (37,400 Euro) in funding and program in...
View ArticleBulgarian Eleven Announces New Crop Of Startups
Bulgarian startup accelerator and venture fund Eleven announces the next group of startups which will incubate under ‘The Roof’. We previously profiled the 12-million-Euro seed acceleration and seed...
View ArticleStartup Events in CEE 2014
I have compiled a new list of startup events for 2014. May and June seem to be overloaded with startup conferences and awards. I have also included major European conferences such as The Summit, Le...
View ArticleFebruary news from CEE startups: Mintos, SalesManago, MSQRD and 8 more
Maybe it has to do that this year the month of February has the whole 29 days, and it was very active in terms of investments and M&As in CEE region. News from the first half of February are here,...
View ArticleCEE startup news: April digest worth $35 million
In April, we tracked acquisition and investment deals in CEE worth more than $35M. The covered startups come from Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland....
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