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Startup Juno celebrates its millionth ride

Belarus / Countries / Outsourcing / R&D center / September 2, 2016

The ride-sharing platform Juno, which has a development team of 80 people in Minsk, Belarus, gained the first million rides in New York. Juno is a new startup from Viber founders - Igor Magazinik...


Back to school: applications open for Startup Spotlight

Countries / Events / Romania / September 1, 2016

Update 20 September 2016: The organizers announced  $30k+ cash prizes, 14 investment funds confirmed and dedicated mentors on each vertical.  Back to school season starts, and in the startup world as well....


Estonian Taxify expands in Europe and Africa

Countries / Estonia / Mobile / Platform / August 27, 2016

Tech startup Taxify from Estonia has expanded to the three new cities on two continents: Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania) and Nairobi (Kenya). Taxify develops and operates a taxi booking app which...


Ukrainian-founded CallPage from Krakow raises €500K from new Polish VC fund

Countries / August 25, 2016

Krakow-based startup CallPage has attracted a new investment round from the Polish venture capitalists. One of them is Rafał Brzoska, the founder of InPost, the largest chain of automated parcel terminals...


Kosovan HELLO beats its goal on Kickstarter

Countries / Hardware / Kosovo / Platform / Social / TV / August 22, 2016

Solaborate  launched on Kickstarter a new device called HELLO. The product smashed its target of $30K within some hours and has raised almost $226K as of today. Solaborate a  US-Kosovo startup which...


Bulgarian startup ecosystem: get your popcorn ready

Bulgaria / GE Exclusive / Reports / August 17, 2016

The cornerstone of the community: mutual help Within a few years a cohort of stakeholders turned Sofia into startup hotbed of South East Europe. Co-working spaces Betahaus and Soho (and the fresh CowOrKing),...


July recap: Sonarworks, VisionLabs, Madberry, SmartCat

CEE startup news digest / Latvia / Russia / Ukraine / August 11, 2016

In July the deal flow in CEE was quite thin in terms of the quantity, but worth of attention in terms of quality. Russian SmartCat spins off from ABBYY and raises $2.8M from RedSeed SmartCat, the startup...


Blinger from Belarus: optimize customer support using messengers

B2B / Belarus / Countries / ecommerce / GE Exclusive / Platform / August 10, 2016

The investment arm of the Russian affiliate advertising company Admitad invested into Blinger, a Belarusian B2B startup. The service enables companies to simplify the communication between their support...


Estonian TransferWise raised a Series E worth $26M

Countries / Estonia / Fintech / Funding News / Platform / August 9, 2016

Update: This is the most awkward update I ever had to make. The news is old (period).  Transferwise’s latest round of $26M was in May, and I got carried away by an update on their Crunchbase profile....


Wargaming: national flag carrier of Belarus?

Belarus / Countries / Games / GE Exclusive / Success stories / August 2, 2016

The title might sound a bit provocative, but not that far from reality. “The game from Belarus enjoyed worldwide”, this is the tagline on the rebranded passenger aircraft that belongs to the national...



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