Venture capital

Vestbee, one of the leading European platforms for startups, VC funds, accelerators, and corporates, has just published VC Funding In CEE Report - 2Q 2023. According to this quarterly overview, VC trends in the CEE region have been closely mirroring the global downturn as the total value of disclosed funding rounds settled at €560M.

The next edition of CEE Startup Challenge is now officially accepting applications! This the biggest online competition in the region is powered by Vestbee - the leading community-powered matchmaking platform connecting startups, VC funds, accelerators, and corporate entities.

In line with the global startup activity, the Turkish startup ecosystem witnessed growth in both deal volume and deal count in the second quarter compared to the January-March period, according to a report by KPMG.

There were a total of 77 deals in the second quarter of 2023, and the total deal volume was $150 million, including startup acquisitions.

It's the last chance for fintech startups to join the AWS Global Fintech Accelerator, a non-equity, online program, launched by Amazon Web Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, a tech giant igniting the era of modern AI, and Vestbee, one of Europe's leading platforms for startups, venture capital firms, accelerators and corporations.

The total deal volume in the Turkish startup ecosystem, including acquisitions, has amounted to $78.9 million in the first quarter of 2023 with 53 deals, shows a report by KPMG Türkiye and 212.

Global startup funding carried out $76 billion, which indicates a sharp decline, compared to the record-breaking first quarter of last year, the report noted.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday Serbia's potential was once again recognised in the new Startup Genome report on startup ecosystems.

"We are in the world's top 20 countries when it comes to talent and we raised the value of our startup ecosystem by as much as 75 pct (average global growth at 47 pct) between 2018 and 2022," Brnabic wrote in a Twitter post.

Yiannis Kiachopoulos and Artur Saudabayev's Greek startup Causaly has raised $60 million. The main investor is ICONIQ Growth, which manages funds from the wealth of billionaires in the technology sector, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Hedepy, a Czech company providing rapid access to online psychotherapy, was chosen the best startup at an international business conference in Maribor on 17 May in a competition of 135 startups from 18 countries.

Vestbee published the 'VC Transactions In CEE Report - 2022', revealing that VC investments in the CEE region exceeded €5.9B in total funding across more than 1100 transactions. 

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