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IT entrepreneur Vasil Terziev is the new Sofia mayor. What does he propose?
His program suggests reforms geared towards transformation of Sofia's governance and infrastructure

The week: Varna’s promise, Sofia’s divide, WCC's suspicious Brussels move, BG Football's dictator moment
K insights newsletter: 10.11

Top earners of 2022
Metals, chemicals, energy, weapons and a bit of gambling business: an unsurprising mix during a year marked by Russia's war on Ukraine

The week: The 14 billion-bet, the game the President plays, new telecoms are on their way
K insights newsletter on 24/03


The most dynamic, the most profitable and the companies with the most employees in Bulgaria
Profitability of the largest companies in Bulgaria continues to improve in 2021, while revenues of the fastest-growing large firms jump to an unprecedented 144%

SEE Startups - an overview of the ecosystem
Since 2012, SEE startups have grown 49.9x in combined enterprise value

The week: the train problem, the Austrian surprise and the Russian oil
Trains, cities, and Elon Musk in the Northwest

Monthly Startup News: Gov’t launches startup visas, Eleven introduces Unicorn Deal program, Coffee trading platform Almacena raises 3.5 mln euro
Here’s what happened in Bulgaria’s startup ecosystem in October

The week: Fear not the political feuds, even when they tell you to on the TV
The optimist theory for the economy, Parliament is stuck, President is happy, and the Dutch don’t like us

The Bulgarian startup ecosystem is losing momentum
The country has built a good reputation on account of its digital infrastructure, low costs and technical talent, but it’s still being overtaken

Bulgaria gets its first tech institute - with 200 million BGN from the state, Google, Amazon and SiteGround
The new Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) launches this fall with leading researchers and professors from across the globe

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 week: The closed sea, the doubling of the toll system and the end of the pandemic
K insights: we look for good city ideas to finance and we have a special report on the Tech sector

The week: Russian tanks steal our common future, stacking up on grain, some good ideas
K Insights 11/03: economy grows (pre-war), some unicorns

Bulgaria is looking for a unicorn
In 2022 or 2023 there will be at least one Bulgarian startup with valuation over 1 billion dollars

Tanks, refugees and unicorns - last week was one to remember
The Russian counterattack in the EU and Bulgaria is just starting. We have a unicorn startup, though

New investment values Bulgaria’s Payhawk at 570 million dollars
San Francisco-based Greenoaks provides half of the fresh funding of 112 million dollars