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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

Bulgarian VC fund Eleven invests 1 million euro in North Macedonia’s startup Native Teams
Native Teams is a work payments platform for freelance and remote workers

Bulgaria’s Top 10 Banks in 2021
Capital Weekly ranks financial institutions in terms of stability, profitability and dynamics

The electronics company Addit.tech received an investment of 555,000 euros
The company basically offers a way for renting mobile phones and other consumer equipment

The Tech sector in Bulgaria: State of Play
Read KInsights’ first special report on the main trends in Bulgaria’s technology and innovation sector, the biggest deals, and more

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

How big is the fintech sector in Bulgaria?
About 135 companies with over BGN 1.4 billion (EUR 715 million) in revenues are distributed in more than a dozen segments of the fintech industry

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

Bulgaria explained: Why is the online banking so unpopular
Еvery Tuesday we look at the Eurostat regional yearbook statistics and explain some curious data on Bulgaria

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 week: Is Bulgaria the limp pig of EU regulation, coal is (still) here, minimum wage surpasses Montenegro
Also: New Parliament is up, as well as the new 12 bn. Leva Plan

Banking is going through a fundamental transformation
Banks need to shift to customer-specific approach, the head of the EIB representation for Bulgaria Teodor Radonov tells Kapital Insights