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| Oct 3, 2025 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: Cat Longevity, Laser Weeds, and Drone Swarms | CEE, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Ukraine ~
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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... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | TEDAI Vienna: Advait Sarkar on Designing AI That Challenges, So People Think (Better) | Austria, CEE ~
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“I’m here today to talk about thinking for yourself,” opened Advait Sarkar, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. What ensued was one of the most insightful TED Talks at the recent TEDAI Vienna 2025, which became ... |
| Sep 19, 2025 | “There is no liquidity in Europe, period.” | CEE, Croatia ~
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“Is there hope for Europe?” might sound like the beginning of a grim political debate, but at Startups Stage of Infobip Shift conference in Croatia this week, the question was aimed squarely at startups, investors, a... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Infobip's playbook for success in frontier markets | If you want to meet a company that encapsulates how you can not only generate revenue but use it for good across a whole tech ecosystem, you need to meet cloud communications platform Infobip.
Infobip’s co-founders bootstrapped the company ... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Croatian Repsly Acquired by US Investment Firm Cuadrilla | Boston, Zagreb, Croatia, USA ~
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Repsly, the cloud-based retail execution software provider based in Zagreb, Croatia, has been acquired by enterprise software investment firm, Cuadrilla Capital. This marks a significant moment for bo... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Dreaming Big for the CEE Tech Community: Ana Marija Kostanic Joins The Recursive as Editor-in-Chief | Zagreb, Croatia ~
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The Recursive, the community-born media platform dedicated to Central and Eastern Europe’s emerging tech ecosystems, is taking a bold step forward with the appointment of Ana Marija Kostanic as its new Editor-in-C... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Croatian GameBoost secures €2M from Fil Rouge Capital and Feelsgood | Croatian GameBoost secures €2M from Fil Rouge Capital and Feelsgood
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Zagreb-based GameBoost, a gaming services... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | What Does Photomath’s Exit Mean for the Croatian Startup Scene | Zagreb, Croatia ~
Google’s recent acquisition of Croatian-based maths app Photomath has brought the spotlight back to the country’s thriving tech industry. With local media suggesting that the acquisition price may have been anywhere from €... |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Croatia Is Home to World’s Only Restaurant With Robotic Chef, Cooks 70+ Meals | John Lopez, Tech Times 10 February 2023, 11:02 am
Hungry for some authentic pasta dishes and some chili con carne tortillas? BOTS&POTS, the world's first restaurant that serves one-pot meals prepared by a robotic chef, has been serving ... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Croatian comms platform Infobip acquires VoIP provider Peerless Network for $200M | Infobip, a cloud communications startup which – like Twillio – handles things like SMS, email, voice and WhatsApp messenger for customer engagement, has completed its acquisition of VoIP provider Peerless Network. Although the deal was anno... |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Croatian Unicorn Infobip Acquires Tech Magazine Netokracija to Bring Top Developer Content | Zagreb, Croatia ~
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Global cloud communications company and first Croatian unicorn Infobip announced that it has acquired business and tech magazine Netokracija for an undisclosed amount.
The Croatian magazine, which has been operati... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Underline Science: The Croatian “Netflix for Scientists” ranked as the best innovative creator of the future | The Croatian project Underline Science is among the winners of the Slovenian Websi Awards and received the award for “best innovative creator of the future“. The winners in the other categories you can find here.
Headquartered in New York, ... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | Croatian startup Wasp secures €1.3M funding for developing a tool that simplifies coding | Zagreb, Croatia ~
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Croatian startup Wasp secured €1.3M seed funding in a round led by Berlin-based deep-tech and seed-stage venture fund Lunar Ventures. Founded in 2020 by Croatian brothers Matija and Martin Sosic, Wasp enables deve... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Business for millions: Croatian BreakStuff turns sports cards into NFT | The world is quickly adapting to the modern blockchain technology of NFT (non-fungible tokens). Earlier this year, NFT artworks of net artist Beep were sold for over $6.6 million. A Croatian startup that used to exchange physical sports car... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Croatian startup Peekator attracts investment of €300K | Croatian startup Peekator has recently secured a seed investment of €300,000 by Omnia Investments. The future plans of the company are to focus on further product development and expansion into the UK market.
Peekator is a market research p... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Croatian startup AdScanner secures new investment, aims to revolutionize TV advertising | Zagreb, Croatia ~
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AdScanner, a Croatian startup developing data-driven TV advertising solutions, has secured a new investment worth €2.4 million through a joint investment from South Central Ventures, J&T Ventures, and business... |
| May 12, 2021 | Croatian Robotiq.ai aims to develop the digital workforce of the future with fresh €900K | Zagreb, Croatia ~
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After the recent listing on the New York Stock Exchange of the Romanian robotics unicorn UiPath, the Croatian Robotiq.ai recently announced its new €900K investment from the Czech early-stage J&T Ventures. The... |
| Sep 3, 2019 | Fil Rouge Capital invests €1,2M for 25 startups in first acceleration program cohort | Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) has just announced its first Croatian acceleration program – 24 selected stratups in total out of 500 applications, Croatian news portal Netokracija announced. Reportedly, each of the selected companies will receive ... |
| Feb 15, 2019 | Fil Rouge Capital to invest €32,5M in Croatian startups by 2023 | Julien Coustaury, Managing partner at Fil Rouge Capital speaking at a startup conference in Tirana / Photo: Julien's youtube channel
Fil Rouge Capital(FRC) will lead the the very first Croatian VC fund initiated by the European Investment F... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Croatian Aspida raises 146,000 euros on Funderbeam | Aspida, the Croatian new digital media company best known for their Izzy keyboard and TVizzy broadcaster, raised 146,000 euros on the fund raising platform – Funderbeam, Croatian media reported.
Starting with an initial goal to raise 100,00... |
| May 29, 2017 | Superfounders Weekly Wrappup #26: SkillView gets investment, Startup Nation will finance up to 10,000 companies. | Another SuperFounders Newsletter that helps you catch up with the most significant startup news from South East Europe.
Romanian program Startup Nation will finance up to 10,000 companies
May 20th, start-up.ro[RO]
SkilView, the marketplace ... |
| Apr 26, 2016 | The 2016 Shift Hackhaton in Split Will Award up to $150.000 | The fifth edition of the well-known Shift Hackhaton will take place in Split at the beginning of June 2016. The announcement for this year’s event was made during a conference held on April 25. According to the organizers and main partners,... |
| Oct 27, 2014 | The Media Nuke That Is TechCrunch Disrupt | I told you so. For the last few months in the run-up to TechCrunch Disrupt in London last week, I’d been telling everyone I knew in Europe that what we were bringing would be a different type of event to this global city. The first aspect o... |
| May 25, 2014 | R.O.W. With Butch: Despite A Dark Past, Sarajevo’s Tech Scene Emerges | ‘R.o.W. With Butch’ is a weekly column about tech outside Silicon Valley, in the Rest Of the World. This week it comes from Sarajevo, Bosnia.
At the height of the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, some 8,000 grenades a day would rain down ... |
| Jan 5, 2014 | For Your Diary — The Best European Events For Startups In 2014 | Back in 2012 I’d been to enough tech startup conferences in Europe over the previous few years to work out which ones appeared to be most significant. Europe being the disjointed bunch of countries that it is has too many to mention. That e... |
| Nov 30, 2013 | IndieVoic.es Hopes To Become Kickstarter For Independent Media | The Internet wasn’t kind to media. Huge media corporations have managed to transform their businesses, for the most part, but independent media, often playing a vital role in emerging countries, are seriously threatened by the lack of avail... |
| Jul 10, 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... |
| Jul 4, 2013 | TechCrunch Balkans Steams Through Belgrade And Zagreb, Ljubljana Is Next | We have one more stop on the long road from Sofia to Ljubljana and each city has been better than the last. In Belgrade we met some exciting startups including the winner, Pubsonic, the winner that night, and Warrant.ly. In Zagreb we met Si... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | TechCrunch Balkans Is Off To A Roaring Start | Last night in Sofia, Bulgaria was a blast. It was TechCrunch’s first Balkans mini-meetup and we had six great startups pitch to win a spot in Disrupt Berlin’s startup alley. Last night Farmhopping took the gold while Sensika came in second ... |
| Jun 28, 2013 | See You Next Week! Details On The Balkans Meetups | I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana next week for a series of informal meet-ups. If you’re in those cities, I want you to attend. Here are the details.
Sofia (1.7) – The Roof by eleven – 8PM to 11PM
Belgrade (2.... |
| Jun 23, 2013 | Reminder: Let’s Rock Out In The Balkans | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July fo... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Reminder: TechCrunch Is Hitting The Balkans In Less Than A Month | Dobro jutro, zdravo, and pozdravi, friends! In an effort to spread the good word about TC to the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July for a series of informal meet-ups. If... |
| Jun 12, 2013 | Reminder: Sign Up For The Balkans Mini Pitch-Off | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July fo... |
| May 29, 2013 | TechCrunch In The Balkans | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July fo... |
| Croatian Memgraph with a $9.34M investment led by Microsoft’s M12 fund | Croatian technology startup Memgraph received a $9.34 million investment from a group of investors, led by Microsoft’s M12 fund. Heavybit, In-Q-Tel, Counterview Capital, ID4 Ventures, and Mundi Ventures are also participating in the investm... |
| Croatian startup MobilityONE aims at €1.5M to reach US and EU markets | The Croatian startup MobilityONE aims to collect €1.5 million in a new Funderbeam round. The investment will be used to finance the growth on the US and EU markets. In addition to Funderbeam, capital will also be collected through venture c... |
| After acquiring the Shift conference in April, Infobip now adds Netokracija to the list | Cloud communications platform Infobip has acquired Eastern European tech and business publication Netokracija. The publication will remain an independent editorial team, save only now operating within the Infobip Group. The financial detail... |
