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Where are the Ukrainian refugees heading to?
Bulgaria faces the uphill task of having to find accommodation for 60,000 refugees currently in seaside hotels whose owners want to kick off their summer holiday season. Integrating them in society and in the labor market are now pressing priorities
The first Bulgarian unicorn
Payhawk, the fintech startup founded by Hristo Borissov and Boyko Karadzhov, was valued at 1 billion dollars after a new investment round led by US fund Lightspeed Venture Partners
The steep road to startup visas
Bulgaria will soon have a working visa for startup entrepreneurs, but one in need of improvements
SiteGround: Creating Bulgaria’s biggest IT company
The founder Ivo Tsenov and the CEO Tenko Nikolov talk about their business, why the team matters and why they opted to stay in Bulgaria
18 steps to government: What did the parties decide after a week of negotiations?
Cabinet talks led by election winner We Continue the Change run smoother than the previous two attempts, but difficult steps still have to be taken
Alcomet starts serial production for BMW next year
The Shumen-based aluminum product maker has signed a 12-year contract with the German automotive giant
The biggest companies in sofware and fintech: Changing and growing
The year of the coronavirus has changed the fundamentals of Capital’s annual ranking in the IT sector, but three in four companies are still growing
The new owners of Sofia Airport: We have a 100 days plan to change the service
Meridiam fund talks about the fees, the low-cost plans and what will happen with the airport in 10 years time
What’s the problem with Bulgarian media?
A combination of market trends and murky political interference has turned the media environment toxic, with only islands of professionalism remaining
The labor market’s new groove
Fewer hirings ‘at any cost’, more flexible employment options, and cautious wage growth are among the new trends in the labor market prompted by the coronavirus
Who are Bulgarian pollsters and are they getting it right?
With elections imminent, here are the sociology agencies to heed
Bulgaria’s new factories
Investment projects worth less than 430 mln levs were announced in 2020 - a third of the amount in 2019
Outsourcing: The foreign sector
Service outsourcing companies have been growing at healthy double-digit rates for a decade but the coronavirus crisis is putting that model of development to the test
Software and fintech: Code growth
In 2019, the top 20 companies saw a fresh two-digit increase in revenues; demand for specialists remained strong despite the pandemic
Bulgaria’s new factories
Investment projects worth 1.3 billion levs were announced last year, up 500 million levs on 2018
Is State Capitalism Marching On?
Within a brief period, Bulgaria’s government has aggressively injected billions of levs into key sectors, and has effectively started nationalizing businesses