From connected dining lamps to digital humans and smarter hotel operations, here's what we saw at the Startup Den, part of Dubai’s Future Hospitality Summit.
The cost of building software has collapsed. Three practitioners — a venture capitalist, a bootstrapped founder, and a product coach who shaped tools at Spotify and Google — argue that the real challenge has shifted: from execution to judgment, from speed to meaning.
The Startup Revolution AI Summit drew 2,000 founders, investors, and policymakers to dissect VC trends, growth strategies, state super apps, and dozens of startup pitches. Here are the notes from the floor.
For decades, Bulgaria’s international narrative was defined by the talent that left. Today, a new wave of founders and investors is proving that the country can systematically produce businesses capable of scaling globally.
With 250+ investors expected in Bucharest, How to Web 2026 gives founders access that would otherwise take months to arrange. Our guide covers the meetings, programs and sessions worth planning around.
Make's Martin Hýravý cuts through the hype ahead of the Startup Revolution AI Summit, revealing why founders must ditch flashy tech for dull, reliable automations that actually bring value and drive revenue.
Heading to Bucharest for How to Web Conference 2026? Investors from Eurazeo, Passion Capital, and Acurio spill what actually gets deals signed, and the red flags that kill pitches fast. Hint: faking the details won't fly.
“For global fintechs, our region is the rest of the world. Very little support, very little attention,” explains Paypercut’s Stoil Vasilev. He’s building a full-stack payment engine precisely where giants like Stripe refuse to get their hands dirty.
Think self-promotion is cringey? Entrepreneur and investor, Oliver Yonchev, warns technical founders that quiet diligence won't cut it in the AI era. As automated content floods the market, a strong personal reputation is no longer optional.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi is one of the year’s biggest applied AI showcases, bringing together AI enterprises, unicorns and startups building the infrastructure, frontier models, and full stack AI solutions across industries.
Romania, Poland, and Czechia now have quantum computers running or incoming. As Q2B, the industry's benchmark quantum event, heads to the Nordics for the first time, CEE has more to bring to the table than the global conversation gives it credit for.
Superseding our biology is the key challenge that humanity faces. Sumon Sadhu maps out the next 30 years, from living through AGI to a future where medicine is a program you write and nature’s defaults become our decisions.
As founders from across Eurasia gathered in Tbilisi for 500 Global Eurasia's Demo Day, the conversation extended beyond fundraising. Founders shared how working across fragmented markets, established industries, and complex business environments has influenced their approach to building startups.
What it takes to scale across borders when AI is rewriting defensibility and why mindset, trust, and focus still decide who wins - insights from Hellen’s Rock Founder Retreat
At Croatia's Nuqleus Liftoff, EIB and EIC officials outlined a strategic push into deep tech. Backed by new capital to bridge early-stage funding gaps, the focus is on utilizing scientific excellence to drive industrial scale. Can the region help Europe build a deep tech moat?
“When researchers come to us, it doesn’t start with a negotiation,” Viktor Olsson of KTH Innovation explains. Here’s how Sweden’s founder-friendly university model is creating a deep tech powerhouse and what CEE can learn from it.
More than 120 investors managing over €10B in assets showed up in Maribor this May. Podim exposed a reality shaping Europe’s tech ecosystem: while founders from smaller markets are entering global competition earlier, the infrastructure needed to scale still feels fragmented and relationship-driven.
