Falling valuations and investor payout rules are pushing tech founders toward early exits. Instead of raising risky funding rounds, some are choosing quiet sales...
The Belgrade-, Los Angeles- and Singapore-based firm is writing $200K to $1M cheques at pre-seed and seed, and it is betting that the region's best companies want a route out of the region.
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.
The inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week, led by DIFC, runs 2-6 November. Over 850 speakers are confirmed across 85 events and 12 signature forums. The programme covers FinTech, tokenisation, Islamic finance, family wealth, sustainable finance and private capital.
The IdeaLab! is one of Europe's leading student-run startup and entrepreneurship conferences, bringing together founders, investors, and students to exchange ideas and build meaningful connections.
As mega-rounds rewrite early venture rules, boutique and emerging investors are being forced to adapt their playbooks, or risk getting priced out of the action.
Italian Lexroom completed full acquisition of Sofia's Praven Intelekt, bringing a platform with more than 19,000 registered users and nearly 1.2 million Bulgarian legal documents into its European network; and naming co-founder Siyanna Lilova as its new Head of Central and Eastern Europe.
After 20 years building Poland's startup ecosystem, AIP Seed CEO Dariusz Zuk says the missing piece is density at the top: founders who have scaled, private capital and big exits. He is building a VC platform rather than a bigger fund, with a planned Warsaw Stock Exchange listing.
Events, investors, free zones, councils, and trade agencies: in this listicle, we start mapping the initiatives and stakeholders building the bridges between Central and Eastern European communities.
Long known as a physical bridge between continents, Türkiye is expanding beyond simple transit routes. Fueled by homegrown unicorns and targeted investments, the nation is shifting focus from passing along physical goods to anchoring Eurasia's tech network.
Across Europe, business angel education is becoming an increasingly important part of building stronger innovation ecosystems, and the new ESIL Angel Academy is leading that effort.
Coinbase and Kalshi are moving AI from customer support to the core trading floor. But as regulators circle, can we trust algorithms with real capital?
This article tracks the history of Gulf Investors backing some of the most defining deep tech companies coming out of Central and Eastern Europe in the past 5 years. These scaleups operate cargo drones, robotaxi ecosystems, voice AI, hypercar manufacturing, clean energy, and longevity biotech.
Treating emerging markets as a monolith is a costly mistake. Utopia’s Alina Truhina explains how to leverage strategic arbitrage between emerging markets and GCC, and why local nuance is the ultimate sourcing advantage.
We sat down with co-founders of the London VC Network (LVCN) to discuss the biggest shifts already happening across venture capital, startups, AI, and emerging ecosystems.
LAUNCHub Ventures has appointed Zagreb-based Vedran Blagus as its new associated partner, tasked with leading the firm’s expansion across Croatia, Slovenia, and the Western Balkans. "I want to be the first person in the region founders call," he says.
In the second half of 2025, I noticed a pattern in our Fund IV fundraising conversations at Eleven VC. One after another, institutional LPs – mainly from Europe – told us some version of the same narrative: they had made a strategic decision to move away from seed funds and concentrate their...
