CEE ecosystem

A Small Country With a Big Playbook: How Slovenia Is Rethinking Startup Internationalisation

There is a particular kind of frustration that comes with building good companies in a country nobody thinks to look at. Slovenia has two million mostly highly educated people, a top-ten global ranking in economic complexity, the seventh most robotised workforce in the world, and a startup scene that...

BlackPeak Capital Backs Croatia’s Fasal Bio with €7M to Scale Renewable Materials Platform

What CEE Startups Need More Than Money

The Central and Eastern European (CEE) has grown remarkably over the past decade, yet despite this, the region’s startup ecosystem remains constrained. And the bottleneck is not a lack of capital, nor is it simply a matter of political risk or market size, as people sometimes assume… The CEE...

Top Funding Rounds in Slovakia in H2 2024: InoBat Closing a Series C Round