27 March 2023·6 min read

Ilya Mikhalchyk-Kananenka

Community Builder, Vestbee

VC & Startup Weekly News From CEE, March 18 - 24, 2023

New Venture Funds:

  • The Bulgarian Fund of Funds directs €272M towards the VC/PE fund managers throughout the country. The investments will be directed at enhancing the scientific/research initiatives, digitization and competitiveness of the local SMB segment.
  • Polish VC JR HOLDING raises an additional 24M PLN to make new investments.
  • French VC Neo Founders announces plans to raise €15/20M funds to invest in European pre-seed and seed-stage startups. The firm will wire up to €500K into startups they're backing.

Startup Funding rounds & acquisitions:

Startup Calls:

  • Vestbee launches Hello CleanTech Startup Challenge. The program is open to cleantech startups throughout several select verticals. The winners of the challenge will obtain up to 200K PLN worth of prizes, free credits and mentorship/expert support, as well as the ability to pilot their solutions across several corporate partners. The applications for the challenge run until the 14th of April.
  • Inovo and Google for Startups invite aspiring entrepreneurs for the next month's "Founder Wannabes". During the event, attendees will have a chance of hearing a presentation on how to scale a startup from 0 to 1 by Jakub Zakrzewski - a person behind Revolut's launch in Singapore and a former GM of Kraken. Additionally, the visitors will have a chance to pitch their product/idea as well as meet with other founders or find co-founders. The event will occur on the 11th of April in Warsaw and to secure a spot one should fill in this short form before the 1st of April.
  • A joint NEON initiative by PKN Orlen and Polish National Centre for Research and Development calls for applications in the field of corrosion protection/management. The winners of the challenge will obtain an 8M PLN grant and an opportunity to validate the solution with the program's experts. The applications for the program run until the 31st of March.

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