Tech & Startup Content Specialist at The Recursive, covering funding rounds, emerging technologies, and AI development in the CEE. Focused on delivering clear, well-researched content that helps readers navigate the fast-changing startup landscape.
The Croatian startup plans to double its team, expand internationally, and further develop its AI platform after securing a €6.3 million Series A round led by AYMO Ventures.
Asternova Vest, developed by a Romanian-French consortium of Aster Capital Partners, Iceberg+, and Venture Booster, targets €37M to back 18+ Seed and Series A startups from Western Romania, the region that produced Movidius, Tazz, and 123FormBuilder.
The Series A round brings Almetra's total funding to €20.8 million and will support the company's expansion into the US as demand for AI-powered industrial inspection grows.
Deep tech investor Constructor Capital co-led the round alongside Greencode Ventures and XISTA Science Ventures to back a startup that compresses AI models by up to 80%, cutting inference costs for companies deploying AI at scale.
AI startup SuperPlane, based in Serbia, secured €2.28 million in pre-seed funding to build an open-source control plane that lets AI agents and engineers safely collaborate on production infrastructure.
Czech startup Grid.online has closed a €4 million round to grow its neutral courier infrastructure, off the back of 10× delivery growth and over 1 million parcels delivered in year one.
Norma's natural language analytics, already adopted across 10,000 Foodics branches, will now power the next generation of agentic AI for restaurant operations.
Warsaw-based Microamp has secured €6.5 million from the European Innovation Council to develop Any-G, a software-defined wireless platform engineered to support 5G, 6G and future network standards from a single architecture, without replacing physical infrastructure.
Poland is investing $11M in ElevenLabs through Vinci, the investment arm of state-owned bank BGK, giving the government a minority stake in the $11B AI voice company.
Sloneek Intelligence connects corporate data across every HR application in use, and can be controlled entirely by voice or chat. The new round will fund the platform's AI development and expansion into the UK and Polish markets.
Founded by investors with backgrounds in Wall Street biotech research and healthcare finance, Kos aims to give European life sciences companies greater access to US industry expertise, capital, and networks.
Slovak startup Definic, previously known as Nordics, raised €2.5 million ($2.9 million) in seed funding to help enterprises pick the right IT vendors through AI-driven vendor intelligence and benchmarking.
Digital Serbia's new scaling program kicks off with three startups from Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia that have already raised millions and now want to win new markets.
Fintech startup Paymove, based in Poland, secured €2.12 million in seed funding to build next-generation payment systems tailored for Agentic AI and fuel its expansion across Western Europe.
👯 Founder(s):
* Piotr Mazur – Founder and CEO
* Kamil Kuper – Founder and COO
* Tomasz Gęsior – Founder and Product Lead
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