How To Web Reveals Finalists of Startup Spotlight
I have been quiet this week. Conferences are disruptive to the schedule, yet I only attended TechCrunch Disrupt passing on Pioneers in Vienna and Web Summit in Dublin, which took place at the same...
View ArticleBulgarian Startup Accelerator LAUNCHub Shortlists New Startups from Eastern...
In what has now become a standard process, LAUNCHub has selected 13 startup teams from Eastern Europe to pitch at its long selection weekend in Sofia, Bulgaria. Here they are. FESTS.eu helps organize...
View ArticleSlovak Startup Awards Sheds Light on the New Teams
Slovak Startup Awards took place the third time this year, and the winner in the categories Science, Art & Design, Society and Digital were announced. Here they are: Palladium-free Gas Sensor took...
View ArticleOn Estimote, Estonia, LeadScanner and TechCrunch Moscow
The end of the year. Says it all, doesn’t it? This is what keeps me from blogging more frequently these days, the tsunami of work that landed just before Christmas. Here is the mid-week wrap. Estimote...
View ArticlePolish Social Learning Startup Brainly Reaches 20 Million Users
Kids learn better when they are genuinely interested in the subject, many studies show. On Brainly, the social learning platform, kids seem to enjoy the learning also because of the social interaction....
View ArticleSocial Media Management: Polish Socializer Gets Acquired
In the space of social media management and marketing there is quite a bit of movement. Czech SocialBakers that analyses effectiveness of social media channels – goes from strength to strength (we...
View ArticleAnother Social Media Acquisition: Hootsuite Buys Romanian uberVU
We have just covered acquisition of Socializer, and an even bigger news came in yesterday as the social media management platform Hootsuite acquired real-time social media marketing platform uberVU as...
View ArticleCzech Brand Embassy Announces $1 million seed investment
This morning Czech social media-based customer care services startup Brand Embassy announced raising $1 million from Rockaway Capital (investment vehicle of Czech Internet entrepreneur Jakub Havrlant)...
View ArticleWill Russian Telegram Become an Alternative to Whatsapp? 8 Million Downloads...
Facebook buys Whatsapp. Whatsapp experiences technical issues. People look for alternative, and probably not because of the glitches but because they don’t want Facebook to know … well – too much. I...
View ArticleRussian Fashion Startup Looksima Pays Fashion Curators For Popular Looks
Polyvore has changed the way people dressed a few years ago and keeps growing into other segments, such as home decor. The company has raised $22 million in total funding since its foundation in 2008....
View ArticleOutsourcing Losses, Flipps & Surfingbird Funding, Credo Ventures Investment...
Ukraine has been on my mind lately. The outsourcing industry is clearly suffering the consequences. Russian Firrma reported that the shares of Russian outsourcing companies Epam and Luxoft lost $750...
View ArticleBulgarian Seed Fund LAUNCHub Announces Shortlisted Teams
Bulgarian seed fund and startup accelerator LAUNCHub remains faithful to its tradition of organizing a pitching weekend for its shortlisted teams. The “Weekend” starts today. Here are some names...
View ArticleInvestments Go On: Three Series A Deals in Russia and a Launch in Ukraine
There is probably no surprise that the investment activity in CEE region has somewhat diminished over the past two months. This especially concern Ukrainian startups where, according to my knowledge,...
View ArticleNominate Companies For The Europas Awards Today
I know I should be writing about CEE startup awards but the last time I was invited to attend the CEE startup award ceremony it was held in place with no airport and it would have taken me 3 stop-overs...
View ArticleFriday Round Up: News From Russian Startup Scene
There have been a few transactions over the past week that I would like to briefly summarize in one post. Probably the most active seed investor in Russia today Igor Ryabenkiy continues to invest in...
View ArticleStartup Events in CEE 2014
I have compiled a new list of startup events for 2014. May and June seem to be overloaded with startup conferences and awards. I have also included major European conferences such as The Summit, Le...
View ArticleRelevant Media, The Owner of Russian “How-to” Portal Kakprosto.ru Raises $1,4...
There are many content websites out there that offer advice on how to do stuff. It is About.com and Wikihow to mention a couple of older websites. You put a request into a Google about how to do...
View ArticleUkrainian Startup Rating 2013: Some New Names
Denis Dovgopoly has been organizing Ukrainian startup rating since 2009 as a way, he says, to bring together technology companies, venture capital firms and other players of the Ukrainian innovation...
View ArticleBulgarian Seed Fund LAUNCHub Backs Six Eastern European Startups
Finally we have news from LAUNCHub, the Bulgaria-based seed fund that has run its startup selection process back in February. The new teams that have joined the 120-strong startup family include...
View ArticleCEE Startup News September: Looksery, Maxymiser, GetIntent, VKontakte,...
From funny to serious: in this recap we cover Looksery and the daily fantasy games, but also the innovative medical device invented by Zortrax, the maker of 3D printers. Looksery (UA) acquired by...
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