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BeGlobe’s American Venture Party returns to Lisbon on November 10 for its 9th edition during Web Summit week. Around 300 founders, investors and tech journalists will meet there, with a focus on startups getting ready for the U.S. market.
A year after its Greek launch, investing app Wealthyhood has released data on more than 35,000 users. The typical new investor is 34 and starts with €100, one in five already holds Greek shares, and women are earning higher returns than men.
The Warsaw-based startup, which trains employees to spot AI-powered scams, was bought to build Aikido’s new Noon platform, with Poland set as one of its development hubs.
Osavul’s AI predicted a sabotage attack on a European railway before it happened. After raising €8.5M, the Ukrainian-founded startup wants to help companies in energy, transport and finance to see such threats in advance.
AllWeb Digital Conf returns to Tirana on November 6, with more than 350 business and tech professionals expected. For the first time, the conference is inviting companies and startups to put an AI agent on stage as a speaker. Applications close October 24.
Duvo has raised a €28.7M ($32M) Series A led by Balderton Capital, bringing its total funding to €43M ($48M). The company, founded by Rohlik’s Tomáš Čupr, builds AI agents that handle the back-office work of retailers such as Notino and Morrisons.
Backed by venture debt from Orbit Capital, the edtech company plans to accelerate growth in the US, Mexico and other international markets. Its platform combines programming, AI and maths education for students aged 6 to 19.
The Estonian energy storage company is now valued at over $1 billion and plans to invest more than $200 million in US manufacturing and R&D to support the growing power demands of AI data centers.
Twenty local events across Central and Eastern Europe will run alongside hundreds of others worldwide on 14–15 November.
The fund will invest around €2.3–23 million in each of 15 to 20 companies working on satellites, Earth observation, propulsion and space data. ICEYE has joined as a strategic partner.
The company builds AI agents that handle support, shopping and social media conversations for consumer brands such as FIGS, SPANX and HexClad.
Ukrainian defence tech company Buntar Aerospace has raised €14.3M ($16M)in a round led by Freedom Fund and an undisclosed international private equity fund. Its total funding is now $30M, and the money will go toward scaling its Buntar-3 reconnaissance drone and Copilot mission software.
Business owners across wider Europe are quickly adopting AI, but most still fund growth from their own profits and remain cautious about costs, regulation and uncertainty.
The Bulgarian VC firm is targeting a final fund size of €75M+ and plans to make around 25 pre-seed and seed investments over the next five years.
In less than three years, Bulgaria has gone from almost no battery storage to becoming one of Europe’s biggest battery markets relative to the size of its power system. What made this possible, and can the same formula work for wind and the grid?
Our last edtech list ranked the region by how much money it had raised. This one goes the other way, to the early end — the pre-seed and seed teams quietly building things worth paying attention to. Here are five CEE edtech startups to watch before everybody else catches on.
Shelly's founders have agreed to a €1.2 billion offer from Schneider Electric, which wants to bring the Bulgarian company's home energy platform into its global business.
Romanian-founded Veridion has raised a $20 million Series A led by Hoxton Ventures to expand its real-time "living digital replica" of the world's businesses. It is the company's largest round to date, and the latest sign of Hoxton's growing conviction in Romanian enterprise AI.
Brainly turned homework help into a $150 million business. Prezi rebuilt the slide deck. Lingvist trained its AI on particle physics data. These are the ten top-funded edtech companies in CEE.
As AI takes over the routine work of preparing exams and materials, universities face a quieter question: what should educators do with the time it hands back?
Unicorns, centaurs, camels, dragons — CEE has a real example of almost every animal in the startup investor's zoo.