Ahead of Prague’s municipal elections, the Czech Startup Association brought together the city’s main political candidates to discuss its startup future, securing broad support for stronger innovation infrastructure, closer university ties, startup-friendly procurement, and a flagship tech event.
Croatian gaming-café franchise Friendly Fire raises €4M, led by AYMO Ventures, to fund international expansion across 11 countries.
Embedd, founded by three Ukrainian entrepreneurs whose previous hardware company was disrupted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has secured pre-seed funding led by Seedcamp.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
Vilnius-based Guideless has raised €1M in pre-seed funding led by Superhero Capital.
Bulgarian AI infrastructure startup DiscreteStack has secured €800K to expand into finance, insurance and the public sector.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
Bulgarian startup Estel Technologies has raised €270K in pre-seed funding led by Vitosha Ventures to expand its AI-native platform for tech staffing sales. The company aims to help recruiters identify real hiring demand, automate lead qualification, and reduce time spent on outdated opportunities.
In this episode of The Recursive Podcast, we sit down with Rakuten Viber CEO Ofir Eyal to discuss how the company is evolving beyond messaging through its partnership with OpenAI, the rise of AI-powered communication, and the long-term vision behind building a "super app." The conversation...
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
With its first US customers signed and fresh angel funding, Bulgaria’s AdScout's next ambition is building the infrastructure to orchestrate trust across buying journeys increasingly shaped by AI.
Bulgarian enterprise infrastructure startup Tiger Technology has raised a Series A round to accelerate its global expansion and advance its hybrid cloud data platform.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
AI can generate logos, colors, taglines, and entire visual identities in seconds. But can it build a brand people actually remember? In this episode of The Recursive Roundtable, we explore one of the biggest questions facing founders, marketers, and designers today: what does branding look like in the age of...
Bulgarian VC firm Vitosha Ventures has announced the first 10 investments from its €34 million Fund II, which plans to back close to 80 Bulgarian startups by 2030.
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milestones, and emerging trends tied to the region’s innovation potential.
Can We Safely Live with Humanoid Robots? 🤖 In this fascinating episode of The Recursive Podcast, we sit down with Emily Kate Genatowski, an AI PhD candidate, historian and domestic robotics researcher who provides a unique, hands-on perspective on our future with machines. Unlike most researchers who work in controlled...
What does AI engineering actually look like inside modern enterprises — and how close are we to truly autonomous software development? In this episode of The Recursive Podcast, we sit down with Karol Przystalski, Chief Data and AI Officer at Exadel, to explore how organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation and...
In this episode of The Recursive Podcast, we sit down with Kilian Kaminski, the co-founder of Refurbed, the Vienna-based marketplace that has become a powerhouse in the European circular economy. Kilian shares insights from his transition from Amazon to entrepreneurship and the ongoing battle to establish refurbishment as...