| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.04.2025 | How CEE VCs Deployed Capital Across AI, Cybersecurity, and HealthTech in Q1 2025 | CEE ~
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A survey conducted by The Recursive in early 2025 revealed that 62% of CEE investors anticipate a more favorable investment climate compared to the previous year. Investors are particularly optimistic about opportunities in A... |
| 28.01.2025 | Ampeco Leading the Charge with €24.7M Series B in Bulgaria’s H2 2024 Tech Investments | Bulgaria ~
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In the second half of 2024, the Bulgarian startup scene saw its largest seed round to date, closed by Team-GPT. Additionally, in October, Ampeco secured a Series B round, marking the highest funding amount in the country... |
| 02.12.2024 | AMPECO: EV Charging Management Company Secures $26 Million (Series B) | AMPECO, a leading EV charging management platform provider, announced it raised $26 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Revaia, with participation from existing investors Cavalry Ventures, BMW i Ventures, and LAUNCHub ... |
| 26.11.2024 | Orlin Radev on Closing Bulgaria’s Largest Funding Round in 2024 | Bulgaria ~
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Today, Bulgarian-founded AMPECO, an EV charging management platform provider, announced it has raised €24.74 million ($26 million) in Series B funding. It comes almost two years after their Series A. The current funding ... |
| 15.10.2024 | Boulder’s Vibrant October: A Tapestry of Culture and Community | October in Boulder is a kaleidoscope of events. The air is crisp, leaves are turning, and the community comes alive. From music to art, from education to celebration, this month offers a rich tapestry of experiences. At the heart of Boulder... |
| 14.10.2024 | Puzl, The Recursive, and CEE’s Top VCs Join Forces for Budapest’s Networking Event of the Season | Budapest, Hungary ~
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Are you ready for a day of unfiltered, action-packed full-day networking and content in the heart of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? On Friday, November 8th, Puzl CowOrKing, in partnership with The Recursive a... |
| 08.08.2024 | Inside an LP Meeting: VC Market Insights and Portfolio Performance Metrics | Bulgaria ~
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In June, LAUNCHub Ventures hosted its annual LPs and portfolio meeting in Sofia, bringing together regional companies and institutional investors. As their representatives shared for The Recursive, it was a reflection on... |
| 04.07.2024 | Pitch Deck, In-Person Meeting, Due Diligence: How a Business Angel Decides to Invest in Projects | Central and Eastern Europe ~
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I’ve been in the business world for over 30 years and ventured into capital investing in 2015. Each month, I review 20-30 applications but invest in only about 5% of them. Some fail at the pitch deck st... |
| 06.02.2021 | Startup Cities in SEE: Who Is Who in the Еmerging Sofia Еcosystem | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
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While Sofia is yet to transform into a major European tech hub, the startup community in the city has been developing rapidly in the past couple of years and next to a number of fast-growing startups that are expa... |
| 13.01.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures launches new €44M fund focused on Southeast European market; aims to close €70M this year | LAUNCHub Venture, a Sofia-based early-stage VC, which concentrates on digital startups in the wider Southeastern Europe region, completed the first closing of its new fund at €44M, whose target is €70M. The Bulgarian company expects to reac... |
| 19.12.2019 | 4 success stories from the Campus X community (Part I) | Another year has passed. 2019 was a roller coaster ride for our thriving ecosystem of tech freelancers, startups, scale-ups, and established companies.
At Campus X, it’s our mission to provide all key elements for our members’ success under... |
| 18.12.2019 | Campus X's Year in Review: 4 key milestones in 2019 | In the last year, we've been working hard to continuously excel at what we do. Because we believe that companies like Campus X are among the major catalysts for boosting and further empowering Bulgaria's entrepreneurial and IT ecosystems.
L... |
| 10.12.2019 | Romanian startup FintechOS raises €12.6M to transform traditional banks | In the latest development, FintechOS, the technology as a service platform for financial services organisations has secured GBP 10.7 million (approx €12.6 million) in a Series A round.
The funding round was led jointly by Earlybird‘s Digita... |
| 22.11.2019 | FindMeCure: Bridging the gap between patients and treatments | In a series of blog posts under the theme “Movers and Shakers”, we will be sharing the success stories and milestones of our members. Read on to find out more about the companies that are transforming industries through constant innovation.... |
| 14.04.2019 | The Bulgarian Tech & Digital Startup Ecosystem: Who is Who in 10 Words | In the past seven years, the Bulgarian IT ecosystem is thriving at a rapid pace. However, it still remains relatively unknown in the global technology scene.
Despite the fact that the country has not produced a unicorn yet, or is not at top... |
| 09.02.2019 | BrightCap Ventures invests in Cloudpipes | BrightCap Ventures invests in Cloudpipes, the 5-year-old London-based startup that drastically simplifies cloud and on-prem enterprise integrations. BrightCap Ventures joins 500 Startups and earlier investor LaunchHub in this €0.5m post-see... |
| 23.03.2018 | Bulgaria rising: Can a growing startup movement reinvent the country’s economy? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facing the uncertainty of life in post-Soviet Bul... |
| 23.03.2018 | Bulgaria rising: Can a growing startup movement reinvent the country’s economy? | Facing the uncertainty of life in post-Soviet Bulgaria, 18-year-old Vladimir Davchev moved to the United States in the late 1990s to pursue his education and dreams of working in the stock market. But after several disenchanting years, he d... |
| 15.06.2017 | Sales analytics SaaS Heresy raises €858K from Launchub, Seedcamp,AngelList and London Co-investment Fund | Featured photo credit: http://www.eu-startups.com
Heresy, the sales analytics SaaS, raised 858.000 EUR, the company announced. The investment was made by AngelList, Seedcamp, London Co-Investment Fund, and Sofia-based LAUNCHub Ventures. As ... |
| 30.03.2017 | Romanian Voo acquired by American Townsquared, two Slovenian startups announce new rounds of funding | Yet another round of acquisition/investments announced by three Balkan startups. Romanian Voo got acquired by American Townsquared, and two Slovenian startups, Mediately and Parsec, announce new round of investments of 500.000 EUR to 2 mill... |
| 14.12.2016 | LAUNCHub Ventures Closes Second Fund, at €18M | LAUNCHub Ventures, a Sofia, Bulgaria-based seed stage venture capital firm, closed its second fund, at €18m.
Founded in 2012, LAUNCHub has already managed its first fund of €9M, which invested up to €200k in the pre-seed rounds of 62 startu... |
| 13.12.2016 | Bulgarian LAUNCHub Ventures closes €18 million worth deal to invest in Southeast Europe startups | photo credit: techcrunch.com
Bulgarian LAUNCHub Ventures, a seed stage VC fund, has closed its new, second in a row deal, worth €18 million. The fund will invest in startups in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe. The newly launched fund will hav... |
| - | Stephane Gantchev: We Don’t Need B Or C Series VCs In Eastern Europe. There Are Not Enough Late Seed And Pre-Series A Funds | After at least a year of total silence from one of the prominent Bulgarian and regional active funds, and months of trying to get them on record, here we are.
Stephane Gantchev is one of the well-known faces of the Bulgarian VC industry, no... |
| - | GapMinder makes a follow-on investment in FintechOS which raises USD 14m in total | Bucharest, December 10th, 2019
FintechOS, has announced today that it has raised a USD 14M Series A round to continue its hyper accelerated growth and further development of the platform.
The financing was been led by the Digital East Fun... |
