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Estonian sTARTUp Day 2023 announces a three-day business festival for Baltic startups

sTARTUp Day 2023 was announced last week to apply to sTARTUp Pitching contest with a prize pool of €350,000. The aim is to connect like-minded people and celebrate entrepreneurship.

Projects, VCs, events that shape the Polish startup scene in 2022 — KREATORZY ranking

MamStartup media together with PFR Ventures have prepared the second edition of KREATORZY ranking, where the authors have selected companies, VCs, events, and people that had a significant impact and shaped the Polish startup scene in 2022. The ranking consists

Estonian regtech startup Salv raises €4M in a seed round

The Tallinn-based Salv which provides solutions to help banks and money service providers detect and mitigate financial crime has raised €4M in a seed round to further develop its products and international expansion. The investment was led by ffVC, with

Coursera now has a course about Ukraine

A course about Ukraine called Ukraine: History, Culture and Identities appeared on Coursera. It tells about the present, the past of the country, its people, and its culture. The course is divided into two weeks: in the first, there are

Finnish startup Woamy raises €1M in a seed round

Espoo-based startup Woamy has raised €1 million in a seed funding round to bring a bio-based foam material to the market. The round was led by CMPC Ventures, Secto Design joined the funding as a follow-up investor. “The market for

Norwegian cooking startup Chew acquires Carrot Kitchen, its Finnish competitor

Norwegian digital cooking course startup Chew has acquired Finnish player Carrot Kitchen. The amount of the deal is not disclosed. As the result, Chew can now consolidate itself in the Nordic market before further expanding, EU-Startups reports. “We see huge interest in

Finnish startup Lekatech receives investment from Normet Group

The Kausala-based startup Lekatech, which aims to revolutionize different end products in the mining and construction industries, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Finnish technology company Normet Group. The investment will help the startup accelerate its growth and

US will help to export Ukrainian Diia app to other countries

As USAID Administrator Samantha Power told Axios, the US wants to help to replicate the success of an e-governance app used in Ukraine in other countries. It is about Diia app that became a subject during World Economic Forum‘s annual meeting in Davos.

Latvian startup scene report: €92M of total investments in 2022

During the last three years, Latvian startup ecosystem went through a forced reboot. 2022 was a terrible year for the whole world, waking up slowly from the pandemic and being eviscerated by the devastating war in Ukraine. Latvian Startup Association

Ukraine’s Monobank launches in Poland. Beta testing registration for Stereo neobank is open

Oleg Gorokhovskyi, the co-founder of the most popular mobile-only bank in Ukraine monobank, announced the launch of its Polish product called stereo. It will have many similar features that monobank has, like free of any fees payments and opening banking accounts