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Stop dreaming, show the digits: how to pitch the startup properly

Recently, the American venture capitalist Marvin Liao visited Lift99, a Ukrainian startup community in Kyiv, to share several crucial tips about entrepreneurs’ most exciting question — how to pitch the startup properly for investors to support it? Mr. Liao spent

Five things startups should know about VC market in 2023

The year 2023 has brought with it a wild ride for startups. The economy is in a tailspin, the inflation rates are the highest since the 1980s, the exit environment is the worst in 10 years. And if that weren’t enough,

Russian startups hide their roots and pretend to be Ukrainian to raise investments — VC

Borys Musielak, Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures, which is one of the most active funds in the CEE region, noticed an interesting trend among Russian startups looking for investments in Europe. It’s now been already a year since the full-scale

50 largest IT companies in Poland 2022: healthy 7% YoY growth, 6 companies have 200+ vacancies

As the last Emerging Europe rating shows, Poland has the most competitive IT sector in the Central and Eastern European region. The country tops the ranking, which estimated CEE counties by the top software development talents, development of IT sector,