Etien Yovchev is a co-founder and Managing Partner at The Recursive, building the relationship Infrastructure for regional tech ecosystems with international ambition - from CEE to GCC and DACH.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is one of the year’s biggest applied AI showcases, bringing together AI enterprises, unicorns and startups building the infrastructure, frontier models, and full stack AI solutions across industries.
Events, investors, free zones, councils, and trade agencies: in this listicle, we start mapping the initiatives and stakeholders building the bridges between Central and Eastern European communities.
AI Everything Abu Dhabi runs for two days at ADNEC. It combines multiple conference tracks, an exhibition floor, workshops and a set of co-located vertical events covering government, data centre infrastructure, semiconductors, quantum, physical AI, cybersecurity, enterprise and startups.
Of the four drivers of AI capability that are coming, Europe can realistically play a role in agentic orchestration. Everything else depends on closing the adoption gap fast enough to matter.
The Gulf adopts technology quickly, but the decision follows the relationship rather than the pitch. Romanian founder Antonia Dumitriu shares her journey of entering the GCC, adapting the product to local privacy norms, and learning why the meetings had to happen in person.
This article tracks the history of Gulf Investors backing some of the most defining deep tech companies coming out of Central and Eastern Europe in the past 5 years. These scaleups operate cargo drones, robotaxi ecosystems, voice AI, hypercar manufacturing, clean energy, and longevity biotech.
At Techsylvania in Cluj-Napoca, the CEO of SPARK, Sharjah's Research, Technology and Innovation park, made the case for partnership over competition, explained the role of government vision for attracting world-class talent, and was candid about what European founders get wrong about the Gulf.
Ivan Maltsev has spent a decade building and investing in crypto across three continents. His read on 2026: the UAE leads on regulation and ecosystem, the US still owns the venture capital, and Europe is maturing, just more slowly.
Organized in partnership with Plug and Play, the event created a platform for high-impact discussions, meaningful networking, and cross-border collaboration between Europe’s innovation ecosystem and the rapidly growing markets of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and beyond.
The third edition of the Google Cloud Day Bulgaria delivered its biggest headline yet — one of the European Union's first national "Cybershield" deployments. But the enterprise adoption numbers behind the big stories reveal a country still running at two very different speeds.
From June 24 to 26, We Make Future fills BolognaFiere with 90+ stages, 1,000 speakers, and a Startup Arena open to founders from 80+ countries. Here's what's on the program. The Recursive is a media partner of WMF – We Make Future 2026.
LAUNCHub Ventures has appointed Zagreb-based Vedran Blagus as its new associated partner, tasked with leading the firm’s expansion across Croatia, Slovenia, and the Western Balkans. "I want to be the first person in the region founders call," he says.
State of Embedded Finance 2025 – Opportunities and Risks as the Industry Matures and Heads into Consolidation
