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Hetz Ventures closes $77M second fund

As reported by Globes, Israeli venture capital firm Hetz Ventures has secured $77 million for its second fund, bringing total managed capital to over $130 million. As the firm claims, over 90% of attracted capital came from international investors and

Top 10 most funded Polish startups in 2019/2020

Investment Associate at the Polish venture capital firm Inovo Venture Partners Kacper Zambrzycki is his Medium blog has selected 10 most funded startups in Poland. AIN.TECH publishes the abridged version.  DocPlanner Founded: 2011 Founders: Mariusz Gralewski, Lucjan Samulowski, Konrad Jarowski,

N-iX changes the work format: remote recruitment, shared team spaces, and hubs across Ukraine

A Ukrainian tech company, N-iX, has announced the transition to a new flexible office format. Employees will be able to choose between working in the office, partially remotely, or completely remotely, as the company’s representatives report. Moreover, N-iX began hiring

Romanian startup Cartloop closes its $350K pre-seed round

Cartloop, an eCommerce startup, has raised a total of $350K in funding over 1 round, Crunchbase reports. It was a pre-Seed round led by GapMinder – a Venture Capital Fund, targeting IT Software and Services startups in Romania and CEE.

Ukrainians launch the production of artificial meat

A Ukrainian company, Eat Me At, has launched vegetable meat in the form of minced meat on the market, which in terms of taste does not differ from meat products. According to Mind.ua, the list of the ingredients includes minerals

Payment and HR startup Papaya Global attracts $40M for further development

Israeli payroll and HR solutions company Papaya Global has closed a $40 million Series B investment round led by Scale Venture Partners. Workday Ventures, Access Industries, and existing investors Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Ventures Partners, New Era Ventures, Group 11,

PandaDoc to open an office in Ukraine and hire new staff

PandaDoc, an IT company from Belarus, will open an office in Ukraine. “We are opening a company in Ukraine and actively searching for new staff, including not only engineers but also sales and marketing managers,” Mikita Mikado, PandaDoc’s founder, reported

Ukrainians unable to register Apple developer account for months. The problem has lasted for nearly a year

Igor Kalinin, a developer from Kramatorsk, was unable to work with iOS for almost five months. First, he was struggling for two months with paying for the registration in the Apple Developer Program and then, for another three months, with

Israeli company Nyxoah goes public and raises €85M

Belgium-based healthtech company Nyxoah has undertaken an IPO on the Euronext stock exchange in Europe and attracted €85 million. Founded in Israel in 2009 by Robert Taub, the current Executive Chairman, Nyxoah is a medical device company focused on the

Bitpanda raises $52M for the company’s expansion driving

Vienna-based fintech Bitpanda has closed a $52 million Series A funding round, the largest Europe’s Series A round of 2020, led by Valar Ventures. Vienna-based VC Speedinvest also participated, the company says in its blog.  Bitpanda was co-founded in 2014