Startup company

BELGRADE - The number of startups operating in Serbia was up by over 20 pct in 2022, and they employed over 2,000 people in total, according to Startup Scanner 2023, an annual report released by the Digital Serbia initiative.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic said on Tuesday it was very important that the Digital Serbia initiative had made Serbian startups visible on the international Dealroom platform, with around 250 Serbian startups registered there to date.

Turkish technology startups drew a total investment of $1.8 billion in 2022 despite a 35 percent decrease in global startup investments, increasing expectations for 2023.

According to a report by StartupCentrum, 322 Turkish startups received an investment of $1.8 billion in 2022, slightly up from $1.6 billion the previous year.

Fintech ecosystem is growing fast in Türkiye and those financial technology companies have the potential to become unicorns, said Ufuk Bilgetekin, head of the Türkiye Payment and Electronic Money Institutions' Association (TÖBED).

After the Central Bank gave its approval to 16 more firms to operate in the industry, the number of authorized electronic money institutions rose to 42.

Amazon Web Services has launched AWS FinTech Accelerator, an equity-free program that aims to identify, engage, and support the growth of high-potential FinTech startups.

Ljubljana – The investment agency Spirit has announced that over 12,000 companies had been launched through its SPOT support programme for entrepreneurs since 2018, while more than 1,400 startups were incubated by its SIO programme between 2019 and 2021.

Innovative startups and scaleups from Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) have a chance to win 1 Million Euro investment from Next Road Ventures and over 200 000 EUR in many valuable prizes in the CEE Startup Challenge, the biggest online competition for regional fundraising startups and scaleups, organized by Vestbee, the leading matchmaking pl

Turkish startups attracted investments totaling about $1.5 billion last year, according to a report released by Startup Centrum on Jan. 19. 

The total volume of investments in Turkish startups increased by ninefold in 2021 compared to the previous year, said Startup Centrum, a digital community that gets startups, talents, investors and incubators together.

Can Moldova's new pro-European government build on the success of startups in Europe's poorest country?

According to her, the announcements are the result of the first day of talks she had in New York with representatives of U.S. companies.