Warsaw-based edge AI startup CTHINGS.CO secured over €1.8 million from Navivo Capital, the new fund's first investment, to accelerate its North American expansion, grow sales, and scale its Orchestra platform for managing IoT, edge, and AI infrastructure.
Ten startups from Poland to Greece are quietly rebuilding how Europe's €1.8 trillion travel industry works — from accessible booking and parametric insurance to hotel analytics and urban gaming. Here are the early-stage CEE companies worth watching.
"I found someone who was a better entrepreneur than me, who was more visionary… I was like, man, I would love to work for you.” The story of how Gabriel Dymowski left his company to build AI hardware startup Pocket, which just raised €9.65M ($11M) led by Accel.
Czech startup Wultra has raised a new funding round to expand its post-quantum digital identity platform globally as demand for next-generation cybersecurity solutions continues to grow.
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.
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.
Lithuanian defense-tech startup PDKINEMATICS secured a €2 million seed round co-led by Coinvest Capital and Iron Wolf Capital to scale production and deployment of its battlefield-proven Gannet precision guidance system for UAVs across Europe, Ukraine, and NATO 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.
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.
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Paypercut has raised a €5M seed round to expand its payments platform across Central and Eastern Europe. The Sofia-based fintech, which now serves more than 200 merchants across eight markets, plans to accelerate product development, and launch new checkout solutions.
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...
With a fresh $110M in the bank and a key acquisition of PwC's tax platform, a trio of ex-Uber Croatians are tackling the one financial system technology forgot. Their goal: to make global tax compliance not just manageable, but autonomous.
Greek venture capital firm Big Pi Ventures led a US $30 million Series B round into Australian robotics company August Robotics, backing autonomous robot fleets that drill and mark floors across hyperscale construction sites worldwide.
