| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.10.2024 | Giraffe360 to expand its data center | SEB Bank has provided a €444,000 financial lease to the technology startup Giraffe360, which has developed and is globally expanding an artificial intelligence-based solution for the real estate industry. The funding is intended for the exp... |
| 21.02.2024 | GlycanAge: Pioneering Preventative Healthcare | GlycanAge, a biotech startup, secures €3.9 million to revolutionize preventative healthcare with personalized diagnostics. Founded in 2020, the company utilizes glycobiology to provide cutting-edge biological age tests, enabling early healt... |
| 19.02.2024 | Croatia’s GlycanAge secures €3.9M from LAUNCHub and Kadmos Capital | Croatia’s GlycanAge secures €3.9M from LAUNCHub and Kadmos Capital
19 February, 2024, 16:54
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Croatian-founded and UK-based bi... |
| 10.01.2024 | ReaktorX Calls CEE Startups to 2024 Batch | Vestbee, SMOK Ventures, and Creative Motion team up once again for another edition of ReaktorX The accelerator welcomes startups of various stages and verticals to apply before January 20th Top 5 startups are guaranteed up to EUR 100K worth... |
| 17.10.2023 | Serbia’s Collabwriting – The Winner of How To Web Conference’s 2023 Spotlight Competition | How To Web Conference took place in Bucharest on October 4-5 2023 and included must-attend speeches, panel discussions, and the Spotlight startup competition Collabwriting, the Serbian startup that facilitates collaboration on online docume... |
| 15.09.2023 | How To Web Presents the Biggest Startup Event of the Season in CEE | This year’s How To Web Conference will take place in Bucharest this October The Conference’s tagline is ‘Keep Building,’ and the topics will revolve around resilience in driving innovation in adverse times As usual, the Conference will be c... |
| 27.02.2023 | Hungarian-founded Colossyan raises ＄5M in Series A round | Hungarian-founded Colossyan raises ＄5M in Series A round
27 February, 2023, 15:26
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Colossyan, a text-to-video GenAI startup, ... |
| 23.02.2023 | Bulgarian startup Transmetrics secures €2.5M from EIC and Impetus Capital | Bulgarian startup Transmetrics secures €2.5M from EIC and Impetus Capital
23 February, 2023, 11:13
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Sofia-based logistics pla... |
| 21.02.2023 | Soleadify is now Veridion, with $6 million further to its name | Soleadify, the Romania-based "firmographic" database operator dealing with over 80 million company profiles, updated weekly, is getting a brand makeover.
Enter Veridion, the newly-branded company backed with a $6 million late seed... |
| 16.02.2023 | AIm High – AWS and Vestbee’s Coming Bootcamp Calls Female Founders in AI/ML | AWS and Vestbee team up to recognize and empower female founders in the AI/ML space All eligible startups are welcome to apply for the coming AIm High Bootcamp until March 10th All applicants will be rewarded
Amazon Web Services teams up w... |
| 01.02.2023 | Romania-founded startup Kubeark secures $2.8M in a pre-seed round | Romania-founded startup Kubeark secures $2.8M in a pre-seed round
01 February, 2023, 15:00
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The New York-based company with a team i... |
| 26.12.2022 | Giraffe360 Presents a New Camera for Real Estate Agents and Lands USD 16M | UK-based proptech with Latvian founders Giraffe360 secured a USD 16M Series A round The startup is a subscription-based provider of cameras for real estate agents to create video content The new Giraffe Go Cam was introduced shortly prior a... |
| 01.12.2022 | Estonian fund Change Ventures backs Giraffe360 during ＄16M round | Estonian fund Change Ventures backs Giraffe360 during ＄16M round
01 December, 2022, 09:31
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London-based proptech startup Gira... |
| 30.11.2022 | Founders Fund backs $16 million raise as Giraffe360 launches new HDR camera for real estate | Giraffe360, a London-based 360 real estate camera startup, has raised $16 million in new funds led by the pan-European early-stage VC Founders Fund.
Founders Fund led the round with participation from existing Giraffe360 investors; LAUNCHub... |
| 11.10.2022 | Serbian-founded medtech Index Health raises $6M | Serbian-founded medtech Index Health raises $6M
11 October, 2022, 14:14
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The Serbian medtech startup based in Miami, Index Health ha... |
| 06.10.2022 | Post-pandemic, Telemedicine startups are evolving — this one just raised $6M for its hybrid approach | So-called “personalized medicine” is all the rage these days. Healthcare is being gradually affected by data-driven insights gleaned through what the healthcare sector calls “precision medicine.” The COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to t... |
| 30.08.2022 | How to Level Up the VC Game, with Irina Dimitrova, CFO and Partner at LAUNCHub Ventures | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
The next guest on The Recursive podcast is one of the first women in the Bulgarian VC space. The Chief Financial Officer and a Partner of LAUNCHub Ventures, Irina Dimitrova has been a part of the ecosystem for more than 10... |
| 25.08.2022 | 12 Venture Capital Funds in Bulgaria That Support Local Startups | Bulgaria ~
Having an innovative idea for a startup is amazing. But do you know what’s game changing? That’s right, raising some capital.
Some would argue that receiving startup funding in Bulgaria is difficult, and they’re right. It used to... |
| 28.06.2022 | Ferryhopper Raises €5M to Accelerate the Digitalization of Sea Travel. This Is How They Plan to Do It | Athens, Greece ~
Company:
• Greek online ferry booking platform Ferryhopper raised €5 million in a new investment round.
• The round was led by a London-based venture capital firm Piton Capital, and joined by existing investors LAUNCHub Ven... |
| 02.06.2022 | These teen entrepreneurs want to bring urban farming to your supermarket | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
Company:
They are only 17. But unlike most teenagers, it’s not where to spend Saturday night that keeps them awake at night. Momchil, Magdalena, and Jordan ponder about global problems such as the loss of arable land aroun... |
| 24.05.2022 | Edinburgh-based synthetic computer vision startup Neurolabs scans in €3 million | Once only spoken of in hushed tones in dimly lit back rooms, the still-nascent field of synthetic data is beginning to deliver on its promises, with both businesses and investors taking note.
Edinburgh-based Neurolabs has raised €3 million ... |
| 05.05.2022 | Checking in on all things crypto: A state of play at the Tech.eu Summit with Bitpanda, CoinDesk, LAUNCHub and NGRAVE | Less than 12 days to go before the inaugural Tech.eu Summit in Brussels and we can't wait to see you all there!
Join hundreds of European tech entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, policy makers, academics and journalists - in person... |
| 19.04.2022 | A Show of Hands: Rush raises €2.5 million | Hoping to Turn the Page, Sofia-based Rush, not to be confused with Toronto-born Rush, has raised €2.5 million in a seed financing round. The Bulgarian startup uses Available Light to Roll the Bones and claims to help Shopify merchants answe... |
| 23.03.2022 | Connecting brands and the e-sports streaming industry, Aggero raises $2 million | London-based Aggero has raised $2 million in a seed round. The company connects brands and advertisers with the gaming/e-sports streaming industry providing analytics and monetisation mechanics. The funding is expected to help Aggero furthe... |
| 07.03.2022 | Cambridge startup ramps up $3.4 million to show how AI can make human connections deeper | University of Cambridge spin-out Tenyks has raised a $3.4 million seed investment to help machine learning engineers build better, safer AI. The round was co-led by Speedinvest and firstminute capital, with participation from LAUNCHub Ventu... |
| 10.02.2022 | After simplifying, organising, and localising complex medical content, Mediately prescribed €7.2 million | Ljubljana-based Mediately has raised €7.2 million in a Series A round. The medtech startup aids doctors in making better, more informed decisions by breaking down complex medical content into more digestible literature, and then organises a... |
| 23.12.2021 | 13 European VC funds launched in 2021 tо channel regional innovation | Company:
Reports and analysis show that in 2021 the venture capital money flow to Europe reached $28B which is a steep increase compared to the $20B in 2020. The continent has also increased its proportion of global funding to 19% in 2021, ... |
| 10.12.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures announces oversubscribed final closing of a €74M fund for startups in Southeast Europe | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
Company:
After announcing the first closing of its new Fund II in January 2021, the Sofia-based venture capital firm LAUNCHub Ventures now makes the final seal of its fund at €74M. The final amount of the capital raised is... |
| 29.09.2021 | Rush-ing an e-commerce revolution through a state-of-art shipment tracking | Rush is a Bulgarian startup that helps e-stores to recover after the hit of the COVID-19 pandemic and generate more revenue and increase retention. The company turns shipment tracking pages into marketing opportunities by supporting the pos... |
| 26.07.2021 | Romanian travel tech startup Framey raises $1M to disrupt travel planning | Bucharest, Romania ~
Company:
The Romanian travel tech startup, Framey, has recently raised a $1 million seed funding round led by ICE Capital from Dubai and backed by Europe-based JECO Capital. Founded in 2019, Framey is developing a mobil... |
| 25.06.2021 | IFC Supports Early-Stage Technology Startups in Central and Southeast Europe | Sofia, Bulgaria, June 25, 2021-Early-stage technology start-ups in Central and Southeast Europe will have improved access to finance, in the wake of an investment by IFC that aims to support the region's potential to foster technology devel... |
| 20.06.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures with second closing of its €70M fund, IFC joins the limited partners list | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
Company:
Sofia-based venture capital firm LAUNCHub Ventures has announced the second closing of its new, CEE-oriented fund.
IFC, part of the World Bank, has committed €15M and will co-invest in LAUNCHub Ventures portfolio ... |
| 28.05.2021 | Community building at scale: Orbiit raises $2.7M, LAUNCHub Ventures also joins the round | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
Company:
According to First Round’s State of Startup survey (conducted in 2019), communities are extremely important on founders’ agendas, with nearly 80% of founders reporting community building as an important aspect of ... |
| 27.05.2021 | Orbiit raises seed funding to automate the interactions within an online community | Orbiit, a startup that automates the interactions within an online community, has raised a $2.7 million round led by Bread and Butter Ventures, with participation from new investors High Alpha Capital, LAUNCHub Ventures and Company Ventures... |
| 13.05.2021 | 7 big successes of the Campus X community in 2021 | Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, 2020 opened many new opportunities for the companies and professionals within our coworking community who kept making a major impact in their fields.
And the start of 2021 was no different. Fro... |
| 11.05.2021 | In search of the right VC and accelerator: a guide for SEE founders | Company:
Take a detailed look behind the numbers, approaches, and terms of some of the venture capital funds and accelerators in Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria, which together make available more than €450M for investment in innovati... |
| 20.04.2021 | FintechOS raises USD60 million in Draper Esprit-led Series B funding round to fuel global expansion
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| 20.04.2021 | FintechOS raises $60 million in Draper Esprit led Series B round | London-based FintechOS has raised $60 million in a Series B round.
Led by Draper Esprit, whose previous investments include Revolut and N26, the round also saw participation from existing investors LAUNCHub, Earlybird Digital East, Gapminde... |
| 14.04.2021 | Bulgarian live sports streaming platform FITE gets acquired in one of the biggest exits for the local ecosystem | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
Company:
After 5000 streamed events, 10 million users, and becoming the top-grossing app in the world across all categories a few months ago, FITE’s sports streaming platform has been acquired by TrillerNet, the parent com... |
| 28.02.2021 | The 0100 Virtual Cee Conference Is Focused on Kickstarting the Post-COVID Economy | Who: 0100 Virtual CEE Conference
When: March 16th – 18th, 10:00 – 22:00 CET
Where: Online event REGISTER HERE
No one really wanted or expected the pandemic to happen, and with this being the second massive economic hit in the span of just ... |
| 24.02.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures-backed Startups Raise over 32 mln EUR in Series A Rounds | Bulgarian fund LAUNCHub Ventures has a training programme that helps startups prepare for raising Series A investments
Their “Series A Academy” has yielded financing for 5 out of 8 startups
LAUNCHub completed the first closing of its new fu... |
| 12.01.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures announces first €44 million closing of its new fund for European startups | LAUNCHub Ventures, a leading early-stage European venture capital firm, has completed the first closing of its new fund at €44 million, aiming to read a target size of €70 million.
Founded in 2012, LAUNCHub Ventures invests in technology st... |
| 12.01.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures heading towards a $85M fund for South Eastern European startups | LAUNCHub Ventures, an early-stage European VC which concentrates mainly on Central Eastern (CEE) and South-Eastern Europe (SEE), has completed the first closing of its new fund at €44 million ($53.5M), with an aspiration to reach a target s... |
| 07.01.2021 | OKR-focused Gtmhub raises $30M Series B after growing 3x in 2020 | This morning Gtmhub, a multinational startup that builds software to help other companies manage their corporate planning, announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B. The round was led by Insight, and included both participation fr... |
| 05.01.2021 | 3+ reasons to choose a flexible office in 2021 | 2020 was a year of transformation. Despite the challenges, we learned a lot from it. Now it’s time to make the most of the new start we’re given.
To adapt to the evolving world of work and power their businesses, many companies turned to fl... |
| 15.12.2020 | 8 Campus X community successes in 2020 | 2020 challenged all of us in many ways. It pushed us outside of our comfort zone and we found ourselves navigating through an uncertain new reality.
While we are excited to wave 2020 goodbye, the truth is that hard times made us more creati... |
| 04.11.2020 | Who are the Bulgarian Future-Shapers and Regional Finalists in the Central European Startup Awards 2020? | The selection for the most impactful actors and builders of the local startup ecosystem, who have been recognized by The Central European Startup Awards, part of the Global Startup Awards, as regional finalists in the competition is now pub... |
| 22.10.2020 | Meet the community: Wipro, bunq, Gtmhub, Payhawk & OfficeRnD | At Campus X, we’re big believers in the power of community and we’re happy to be home to 50+ leading companies, who operate in diverse sectors at a different stage of development and have their unique needs and goals. Yet, all of them share... |
| 12.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Monday, December 12 | TWINKIE RETURN, LAYOFF WATCH, AND THE NEW AUSTERITY
The New York Times published a big feature on private equity over the weekend. It takes a slightly lighter touch than certain past magazine covers… A few takeaways:
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| 12.12.2016 | LAUNCHub Ventures closes its second fund at €18M, to invest in Eastern Europe | Heaven knows there are few enough institutional investment funds focusing specifically on Eastern Europe, but today followers of the scene there have reason to celebrate.
LAUNCHub Ventures, the seed-stage venture capital firm based in Sofia... |
| 12.12.2016 | LAUNCHub Ventures closes new €18 million fund for seed investments in Southeast Europe | Bulgarian seed stage VC fund LAUNCHub Ventures has closed its new €18 million to invest in startups in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe.
Lyuben Belov, one of the firm’s cofounders, said that the region is underserved when it comes to funding: ... |
| 25.05.2016 | Bulgarian Startup OfficeR&D Wins a EUR 10,000 Award | Bulgarian startup OfficeR&D is the winner of the DigitalK Startup Competition 2016. This startup company received EUR 10,000 award in recognition of the best business idea that was in a stiff competition with 14 other startups from the ... |
| 10.05.2016 | Major industry event in Sofia invites Ukrainian tech players (discounted registration until May 17) | Ukrainian startups and other internationally-oriented tech players are welcome to participate in the sixth edition of DigitalK, a major regional event which will be held on May 19-20 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
This two-day conference will bring to... |
| 27.04.2016 | UK drone pilot marketplace Airstoc raises $700,000 in seed funding | Airstoc, an online marketplace for drone pilots, has raised $700,000 in seed funding from Point Nine Capital, Launchub, and Thibaud Elziere.
The UK startup, founded in 2013 and based in Sheffield, connects drone pilots with businesses looki... |
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| 24.10.2014 | Bitcoin Loan Platform BitLendingClub Receives €200K Seed Investment | BitLendingClub
Bitcoin crowd-lending platform BitLendingClub has just announced a €200,000 ($253,336) seed investment from European VC fund LAUNCHub.
The Bulgaria-based company says the funding round will help the company expand and allow i... |
| 03.06.2014 | Appticles.com Launches New Platform with €200K Seed Round | Appticles.com, a London, UK-based HTML5 mobile content packaging platform, has just launched the new version of its service leveraging a seed round of up to €200k.
LAUNCHub, a seed fund supporting the most promising digital startups in Sout... |
| 30.05.2014 | Style Jukebox Raises Seed To Stream Your Own Music Collection | Style Jukebox has raised undisclosed seed funding from Central European early-stage fund LAUNCHub to boost its cloud music-streaming service. The cloud part is that you upload your personal music files collection and then use Style Jukebox ... |
| 12.09.2013 | CodeBender.CC Makes It Crazy Easy To Program Your Arduino Board From Your Browser | The official Arduino IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn’t very pretty to look at. But what if you want to share code ... |
| 10.07.2013 | Watch Out For The Balkans | We’re 50 kilometers outside of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in Bled Castle, overlooking a clear blue mountain lake, a set of gilded clouds scudding overhead and the sun is shining bright over miles of untrammeled forests. On the water below tiny sw... |
| - | Noi finanțări de 500.000 - 2 milioane Euro pentru firme IT românești, dintr-un fond susținut de Uniunea Europeană | Startup-urile IT românești pot obține noi finanțări de capital de risc de 500.000 - 2 milioane de euro fiecare, printr-un fond de investiții lansat, marți, la Sofia, cu susținerea Uniunii Europene.
Firma de investiții bulgară LAUNCHub Ventu... |
| - | Checking in on all things crypto: A state of play at the Tech.eu Summit with Bitpanda, CoinDesk, LAUNCHub and NGRAVE | Less than 12 days to go before the inaugural Tech.eu Summit in Brussels and we can't wait to see you all there!
Join hundreds of European tech entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, policy makers, academics and journalists - in person... |
| - | Crisis Management: Here’s What Тhe CEE Early Stage VC LAUNCHub Ventures Advises Founders | The Covid-19 crisis won’t have an effect on the tech and the startup industry is one of the thesis we often hear in the past days. But is that true? Of course, there’s a handful of companies and entrepreneurs who will greatly benefit from t... |
| - | A Show of Hands: Rush raises €2.5 million | Hoping to Turn the Page, Sofia-based Rush, not to be confused with Toronto-born Rush, has raised €2.5 million in a seed financing round. The Bulgarian startup uses Available Light to Roll the Bones and claims to help Shopify merchants answe... |
| - | Edinburgh-based synthetic computer vision startup Neurolabs scans in €3 million | Once only spoken of in hushed tones in dimly lit back rooms, the still-nascent field of synthetic data is beginning to deliver on its promises, with both businesses and investors taking note.
Edinburgh-based Neurolabs has raised €3 million ... |
| - | British crypto processor brings in $60 million for expansion in Europe | London-based digital asset technology provider BCB Group has closed a $60-million Series A round. The funding was co-led by Foundation Capital with participation from BACKED VC, PayU (the fintech and e-payments business of Prosus), Digital ... |
| - | Sessions taps $4.5 million to help companies to digitally engage with customers in meaningful interactions | The video conferencing and collaboration needs of companies have grown and evolved in the past years and yet tools have remained virtually the same.
Attempting to change this, Bucharest-based communication and collaboration platform that up... |
| - | After simplifying, organising, and localising complex medical content, Mediately prescribed €7.2 million | Ljubljana-based Mediately has raised €7.2 million in a Series A round. The medtech startup aids doctors in making better, more informed decisions by breaking down complex medical content into more digestible literature, and then organises a... |
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| - | Sofia’s LAUNCHub Ventures closes second fund at €74 million | Sofia-based LAUNCHub Ventures has announced the final close of its second fund at €74 million. The fund will follow on in the firms’ commitment to funding the most promising SaaS, Fintech, Proptech, Big Data, AI, Marketplaces, Digital Healt... |
| - | IFC joins second closing of LAUNCHub’s EUR 70m CEE startup investment fund | The International Financial Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank, has joined the second closing of Sofia-based VC LAUNCHub Ventures with a EUR 15m institutional investment, committing to co-invest an additional EUR 15m in CEE startups ... |
| - | FintechOS raises $60 million in Draper Esprit led Series B round | London-based FintechOS has raised $60 million in a Series B round.
Led by Draper Esprit, whose previous investments include Revolut and N26, the round also saw participation from existing investors LAUNCHub, Earlybird Digital East, Gapminde... |
| - | US-Bulgarian OKR-orientated Startup Gtmhub Closes a $30М Series B Round and Plans to Triple Its R&D Team in Sofia | The tech ecosystem is slowly waking up after the holidays, yet the first signs that January will be an eventful month and 2021 an eventful year are already here. Gtmhub, a company that has developed a platform to help companies align their ... |
| - | Стартап-инкубаторы Центральной и Восточной Европы договорились работать сообща | Стартап-инкубаторы Центральной и Восточной Европы договорились работать сообща
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Ведущие стартап-инкубаторы Центральной и Восточной Европы на Pioneers Festival, прошедшем в Вене, в ходе 5-часового в... |
| - | Connecting brands and the e-sports streaming industry, Aggero raises $2 million | London-based Aggero has raised $2 million in a seed round. The company connects brands and advertisers with the gaming/e-sports streaming industry providing analytics and monetisation mechanics. The funding is expected to help Aggero furthe... |
| - | Cambridge startup ramps up $3.4 million to show how AI can make human connections deeper | University of Cambridge spin-out Tenyks has raised a $3.4 million seed investment to help machine learning engineers build better, safer AI. The round was co-led by Speedinvest and firstminute capital, with participation from LAUNCHub Ventu... |
| - | LAUNCHub Ventures announces first closing at €44M for its new fund and grows the team | LAUNCHub Ventures is backed at this stage by the European Investment Fund, corporations in the tech sector and successful Bulgarian founders. The advanced discussions with other private and institutional investors provide strong confidence ... |
