The day in 3 news: Bulgaria taps Russian imports from EU; Eleven Ventures names funded firms; OneCoin employee charged in USA

The week: The hidden economy, The man who built Bulgaria, Don't call them by their name, Save the Tomatoes

Thousand shades of gray

The day in 3 news: BSP gets third mandate; Inflation rate still at just under 17%; Less than ⅓ of road projects realized last year

The Top 100 Bulgarian companies: Extreme growth

Capital Weekly’s 2022 ranking of the 100 largest companies in Bulgaria shows that giants’ earnings soared by 38% in 2021, with firms from the energy, fuels, grains and metals sectors at the helm

Not enough people: Bulgarian universities and firms struggle to recruit

Bulgarian companies from all sectors seek to hire 200,000 new employees - but workers are proving elusive

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

Day in 3 news: Radev’s cabinet loses support; Bulgarians get quick but expensive care; BG taps Lukoil as EU embargo on Russian fuel nears

PPS Manufacturing: Hand in Glove with the Future

The Bulgarian company started the first nitrile-glove production in Europe and is aimed at taking up the leadership position in the sector

The Bulgarian unit of Belgium’s Televic to triple production of communications systems

The company will invest 10 million levs in a new plant and add circuit board assembly to its line of business

They know why you didn’t buy

Bulgarian deep data analysis SessionStack raised 750 thousand euro from BrightCap VC and Telerik co-founder Boyko Yaramov

The day in 3 news: World Bank to meet gov’t in Sofia; EBRD cuts Bulgaria’s GDP forecast to 2.2% in 2022; T-bonds issued on international market

PM Petkov in Kyiv: Ukraine will win this war; Ninova wants Russian gas restored; Brussels transfers 146 mln euro to Sofia for Ukrainian refugees

The day in 3 news: Bulgaria can only send protective gear to Ukraine, Free healthcare for refugees, Foreign debt goes up nominally, down as % of GDP: BNB

The week: Borissov arrested, Central Bank chairmanship tears the coalition, Resilience Plan still not ok

Former PM Borissov arrested, Guerilla war over BNB shakes the coalition and the Plan is still NOT alright

Chaos Software - from Oscars to a merger

The Bulgarian company will merge with German-based Enscape. US-based TA Associates and the German LEA Partners will control the newly created player

Bozhidar Bozhanov: Electronic services should not be reserved only for a selected few

Bulgarian minister of e-government talks to Kapital Insights

E-government: Time for an update

The new government plans radical digitalization of Bulgarian bureaucracy in its first year

The week: Call them by their names, planes to Skopje and Bangkok, and the Recovery plan is back

F-16 are not on the horizon, while trains are

A reluctant NATO ally, OECD invitation 15 years in the waiting and a new name for Telenor

Sofia hopes for the best - and not much more - in NATO-Russia clash, Telenor turns into Yettel and changes coming to the Energy regulator