Two megadeals—ElevenLabs and ICEYE—accounted for a significant share, jointly raising over 300 million. Excluding these two transactions, the Polish VC market still grew...
Emerging Europe Staff
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Russian emigration turbocharged the country’s tech scene. The trick now is keeping it going. Armenia stumbled into geopolitical fortune. When Moscow launched its...
Brussels is financing infrastructure in the Western Balkans. EU membership is another matter. On the outskirts of Tirana, diggers are preparing the ground for what will...
Why most industrial AI experiments fail—and how to fix them. Nearly nine in ten organisations worldwide now deploy artificial intelligence in at least one business...
Women remain underrepresented at all levels of the corporate ladder, particularly in senior leadership roles. A recent lawsuit, in which a former president at Insight...
Estonia has claimed its third consecutive victory in the Reinvantage IT Competitiveness Index, scoring 65.45 points from a possible 100 and reinforcing its position as a...
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern...
A new study suggests the South Caucasus’s banking transformation has less to do with who’s winning now than who might win tomorrow. The South Caucasus has...
The EU economy defies gloom, but hardly inspires euphoria. For an economy that spent much of the past three years staggering from one crisis to another, Europe’s...
Poland’s high-speed rail ambitions depend on Brussels opening its wallet. Poland is readying itself to ask the European Union for billions of złoty to build its...
Europe’s gas infrastructure binge is proving as ill-judged as it was expensive. Europe’s dash to wean itself off Russian pipeline gas has left the continent...
Brussels hopes a new fund will stop promising tech firms from fleeing to America. Europe has long been plagued by a peculiar malady: it excels at birthing innovative...
