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Flashpoint to raise $75M for Ukraine-focused fund. It has close ties with Russia

At the end of November 2022, the international technology investment firm Flashpoint announced its intention to launch a $75 million Ukrainian Tech Fund to support Ukrainian tech companies. After the news was made public, Yaroslav Krempovych, Senior Associate at Movens

Romanian-born HRtech startup Nestor raises $2M in a seed round 

Nestor, HR software developer has raised $2 million for its people intelligence platform. The seed round was co-led by Eleven Ventures and Underline Ventures. “Every employee is unique. We envision a world where every employee receives the right opportunity at

CEE startups funding report: €1.3B over 264 investments in Q3 of 2022

Despite the harsh geopolitical and economic climate, the CEE startups funding scene shows solid resilience. However, Q3 was the first quarter in 2022 showing a notable deviation from the growths seen earlier this year, as the amount of capital deployed

Bulgarian healthtechs Whisp and AskTheCP gets €200k from Sirma Venture Lab

The Sofia-based incubator program for pre-seed startups in industry 4.0, health, fintech, automotive, logistics, hospitality Sirma Venture Lab provided €200,000 for Whisp and AskTheCP to continue their development. The investment was supported by Innovation Capital, the company’s representative told AIN.Capital.

JKR Investment Group invests millions of dollars in Study.ua, a Ukrainian educational service

On December 5, 2022, JKR Investment Group invested several million dollars in Ukrainian educational platform Study.ua. The group’s press office told AIN.Capital the details. “Our goal is to help STUDY.UA to scale,” Oleksandr Gusev, CEO & Co-founder of JKR Investment

Startup of the Day: Bulgarian online marketplace Swipe.bg

Founded in October 2021 by Mihail Dimitrov, Ognyan Popov, and Nikola Pavlov, Swipe.bg is the first Bulgarian platform for buying and selling second-hand mobile phones. It refurbishes and puts these devices back to market with 2-year warranty, flexible payment methods, full-scale

Polish gaming company Elympics wins $100k at NBX Pitch Contest 2022

Warsaw-based blockchain gaming startup Elympics has won the main prize of $100,000 in a pitch contest at the Next Block Expo festival. The company received recognition from leading European VC funds for its innovative approach to creating Web3 play-to-earn games, MamStartup

Polish-French deeptech startup Pathway receives $4.5M in a pre-seed round 

The Paris-based framework for real-time and reactive data products Pathway has received $4.5 million in a pre-seed round to develop its product. The round was co-led by Polish funds Inovo and Market One Capital, Sifted.eu reports. 

“Companies have realized that it is possible to work with Ukraine despite the war.” Interview with Ambassador of Israel

Israel accounted for 4% of $6.8 billion of Ukraine’s IT exports in 2021. In an interview with Israeli Ambassador Michael Brodsky for AIN.Capital, we talked about why the cooperation of the Israeli tech sector with Ukraine is almost 8 times

ScanmarQED acquires Roivenue, Czech attribution and optimization software suite 

The Netherlands-based provider of marketing insights and analytics solutions ScanmarQED has acquired Roivenue, the Prague-based marketing attribution and digital data integration platform. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. “Our goal is to compete with the best solutions on