| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.09.2026 | Veridion Secures $20M to Transform Global Business Intelligence with AI | Veridion secures $20M Series A funding. This investment propels its AI-driven platform. The system delivers real-time business intelligence. It covers 640 million global entities. Traditional data lags. Veridion’s technology updates continu... |
| 16.09.2026 | Veridion Raises $20M to Expand AI-Powered Business Intelligence | Veridion Raises $20M Series A For Business Intelligence
Veridion has raised $20M to expand its AI-powered business intelligence platform. The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with existing investors also participating in the financing. The... |
| 16.09.2026 | Veridion lands $20M to take business intelligence beyond static data | Business intelligence startup Veridion has raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered platform for providing continuously updated information on businesses worldwide. The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with participa... |
| 28.08.2026 | Embedd Raises $2.3M in Pre-Seed Funding | Embedd, a London, UK-based software developer tool and semiconductor automation startup, raised 2.3m in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by Seedcamp, with participation from Cocoa, Connect Ventures, 2100 Ventures, Vesna Capital, U.ventur... |
| 26.06.2026 | Almetra erhält 16,3 Millionen Euro – Zelara bekommt 3 Millionen – Wakeline sammelt 2,1 Millionen | Im #DealMonitor für den 26. Juni werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arc... |
| 25.06.2026 | Almetra secures €16.3M Series A to drive smarter manufacturing | Berlin-based manufacturing intelligence company Almetra, formerly known as Deltia, has raised €16.3 million in a Series A funding round led by blisce/, with participation from NAP, Merantix Capital, Robin Capital, Underline, Critical Ventur... |
| 19.05.2026 | DesignVerse Secures $5.5M to Revolutionize Enterprise Software Modernization | DesignVerse secured $5.5M seed funding. The AI startup modernizes critical enterprise software. Its platform builds reliable, compliant applications fast from existing client data. This speeds digital transformation for aviation, finance, a... |
| 13.05.2026 | DesignVerse Raises $5.5 Million Seed Funding To Advance AI‑Driven Modernization Of Mission‑Critical Enterprise Software | DesignVerse, an AI enterprise software startup whose platform has already helped modernize aviation infrastructure across Europe, has raised more than $5.5 million in seed funding. The company said the round underscores growing demand for A... |
| 13.05.2026 | Romanian DesignVerse raises $5.5M to modernise legacy enterprise software | Bucharest-based DesignVerse, the enterprise software startup using AI to modernise complex legacy systems, has raised more than $5.5 million in seed funding as demand grows for tools that can safely accelerate software development in missio... |
| 14.04.2026 | HumanxAI Conference Examines the Future of AI Sovereignty at This May’s ViennaUP | Part of ViennaUP 2026, HumanxAI Europe Conference explores Europe’s gap between AI regulation and technological capability The event gathers founders, investors, and researchers building Europe’s AI ecosystem The Congress’ programme spans s... |
| 26.02.2026 | How Investors Use AI in 2026 | CEE ~
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In 2026, AI is already embedded in the investor’s day-to-day, so we asked six investors to describe, in plain terms, what AI has changed about their daily work and where they see it adding genuine value.
What emerged is a con... |
| 04.02.2026 | 8 Soon-to-Be Unicorns in CEE, According to Investors | Central and Eastern Europe ~
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In 2025, CEE continued to produce new unicorns in various verticals: language learning, hospitality software, AI security and fintech. CEE-rooted companies proved that billion-dollar valuations are no l... |
| 30.10.2025 | Soft landing in Silicon Valley: how the European Startup Embassy helps CEE founders go global | The rate of startups building a US presence before series A increased from 33 per cent to 64 per cent in the last 5 years. And for CEE founders, the need is even higher: 50 per cent of CEE startups relocate to the US during scaling.
On Octo... |
| 23.07.2025 | 10 Biggest Funding Rounds in Romania (H1 2025): DRUID AI Leading the Top | Romania ~
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Romanian top startups had a bit stronger start in 2025 than in 2024.
FintechOS took the biggest investment of 2024 title, while DRUID AI is taking the same place this year, with substantial Series C. We also see some fami... |
| 23.07.2025 | Biggest Funding Rounds in Bulgaria (H1 2025): EnduroSat with Two Major Rounds | Bulgaria ~
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Bulgaria’s startup landscape witnessed a major milestone in the first half of 2025, with EnduroSat emerging as the undisputed leader in terms of capital raised. The Sofia-based space tech company secured two major rounds... |
| 18.03.2025 | Uvionix’s Autonomous AI Drones for Smarter Supply Chains Secure USD 3.5M in Seed | Uvionix Raised USD 3.5M in Seed funding to develop AI-powered drone solutions for warehouse management The startup’s U-Vee autonomous drones provide real-time inventory monitoring with 99.9% accuracy, optimizing warehouse operations Warehou... |
| 26.02.2025 | How To Web’s Venture in Eastern Europe 2024 Report: Exclusive Insights from Authors | How To Web and partners unveiled their Venture in Eastern Europe 2024 Report The presentation took place on February 19th in London, symbolizing the bridge between the East and the West For the 4th time, How To Web’s experts highlighted the... |
| 14.02.2025 | Bridging East and West: Venture in Eastern Europe 2024 Report Debuts in London | How To Web unveils its Venture in Eastern Europe 2024 report on February 19 in London The Report covers key startup trends, investments, and venture capital activities across Eastern Europe and highlights investment hotspots, emerging tech ... |
| 13.01.2025 | The Western Balkans: A Rising Star in the Venture Capital Landscape | The Western Balkans are awakening. Once overlooked, this region is now a canvas for innovation and investment. Countries like Croatia and Serbia are leading the charge, while others like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedon... |
| 13.01.2025 | Can (Regional) VCs Ignore the “Western Balkans”? | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia ~
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Investments in Western Balkans have been very miscellaneous last year. All kinds of VCs led and followed rounds in Croatian and Serbian startu... |
| 15.11.2024 | MixRift Brings In EUR 1.6M for Accelerating the Output of Mixed Reality Game Titles | MixRift is an Irish MR gaming studio with Romanian founders Launched in 2023, the company has already released two acclaimed titles and raised EUR 1.6M The new investment will be used to hire more talent and accelerate the release of new ti... |
| 06.11.2024 | FigVision – The Winner of How To Web Conference’s 2024 Spotlight Competition | How To Web Conference took place in Bucharest on October 2-3rd, 2024, and included a variety of insightful speeches, panel discussions, and the Spotlight startup competition FigVision, the Romanian startup that makes design seamless and eff... |
| 17.10.2024 | There are People Who Work and Those Who Think with Bogdan Iordache | Bucharest, Romania ~
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What was it like to study AI back in 2003, and how does it pay off today? In this episode of The Recursive Podcast, Bogdan Iordache shares his journey from becoming a CTO at just 21 years old to his evolution a... |
| 10.09.2024 | How To Web Returns with a Must-Attend Startup Event of the Season in CEE | This year’s How To Web Conference will traditionally take place in Bucharest this October The roster of speakers will be amended by celebrated book authors As usual, the Conference will be complemented by Spotlight competition for startups ... |
| 29.08.2024 | How To Web Conference 2024 Spotlight Competition Announces Final Call | 2024’s edition of How To Web Conference will once again take place in Bucharest in October As usual, the Conference will host CEE’s biggest startup competition Startups are welcome to apply for the Spotlight competition before September 1st... |
| 08.08.2024 | MixRift: Pioneering the Future of Mixed Reality Gaming | In the bustling world of gaming, a new player is making waves. MixRift, a mixed reality (MR) gaming startup, has recently secured €1.4 million (approximately $1.6 million) in pre-seed funding. This investment comes from notable backers like... |
| 07.08.2024 | MixRift raises $1.6M for mixed reality casual gaming | Mixed reality gaming start-up MixRift has secured $1.6M in Pre-Seed investment from leading investors, including Outsized Ventures, Underline Ventures, and SOSV. The backing will support MixRift in accelerating its efforts to develop and pu... |
| 12.06.2024 | SaleSqueze Revolutionizes Sales with $1.5M Seed Funding | A Slovenian startup, SaleSqueze, is shaking up the sales game with a $1.5 million seed funding round. Led by Underline Ventures, this investment aims to transform how complex manufacturing products are sold. SaleSqueze's innovative approach... |
| 12.06.2024 | Slovenian startup SaleSqueze raises €1.4 million to to automate sales of complex manufacturing products | Skofja Loka-based SaleSqueze, a Slovenian startup transforming how complex and customizable products are sold, has raised €1.4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Underline Ventures, with participation from Robin Capital, Fortech ... |
| 08.05.2024 | start-up.ro Presents Its First Tigers Summit | start-up.ro calls Romanian tech and business tech pros and enthusiasts to the first edition of its Tigers Summit The event will take place on May 28th at Nayam Events in Bucharest Industry leaders will discuss the ongoing and future progres... |
| 11.04.2024 | All Techheads Are Welcome at Riga’s TechChill 2024 | TechChill welcomes all the techheads once again in Riga this April The dates are April 17-19th, and the venues are Fantadroms and Hanzas Perons The conference will begin with Run for Ukraine and include side events, insights from renowned i... |
| 05.04.2024 | Romanian platform Genezio receives $2M in pre-seed investment | Romanian platform Genezio receives $2M in pre-seed investment
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| 30.11.2023 | Underline Ventures Finalizes USD 20M Fund I and Summarizes Its Milestones So Far | Bucharest-based Underline Ventures announced the complete closing of its first fund of USD 20M The fund is private-only and solo-GP The VC firm plans to continue helping CEE startups (and startups with CEE founders) to grow EU-wide and glob... |
| 15.11.2023 | Romania’s Underline Ventures closes first fund at €18.4M to back early-stage Eastern European founders | Read this article in:
Bucharest-based Underline Ventures, the first solo general partner venture fund in Eastern Europe, announced that it has closed its first fund at $20M (approximately €18.4M).
The VC aims to back the earliest stages of ... |
| 15.11.2023 | How to Close a $20M Fund in an Economic Downturn: Insights From Bogdan Iordache and Underline Ventures | Bucharest, Romania ~
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If you only have a minute, here are the key takeaways: Bucharest-based Underline Ventures, the founder’s partner in their earliest stage, announces final closing of its first fund at $20M.The fund was raised fu... |
| 15.11.2023 | A walk through hell: How Eastern Europe’s first solo GP venture fund Underline Ventures raised $20M | When Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, our first closing was only one week old.
We had closed $6.5 million — out of a target of $20 million.
It may sound like nothing, but for an emerging solo GP based in Bucharest raising its f... |
| 15.11.2023 | Eastern Europe's first solo GP venture fund, Underline Ventures, achieves $20M target | Underline Ventures, Eastern Europe’s first solo GP venture fund has announced today the final close of its first fund at $20 million. The vehicle is aimed at supporting some 20 early-stage startups established by Eastern European founders, ... |
| 17.10.2023 | Serbia’s Collabwriting – The Winner of How To Web Conference’s 2023 Spotlight Competition | How To Web Conference took place in Bucharest on October 4-5 2023 and included must-attend speeches, panel discussions, and the Spotlight startup competition Collabwriting, the Serbian startup that facilitates collaboration on online docume... |
| 15.09.2023 | How To Web Presents the Biggest Startup Event of the Season in CEE | This year’s How To Web Conference will take place in Bucharest this October The Conference’s tagline is ‘Keep Building,’ and the topics will revolve around resilience in driving innovation in adverse times As usual, the Conference will be c... |
| 22.06.2023 | Robin Haak launches Robin Capital, the latest fund to join the solo GP trend in Europe | If you were a solo venture capitalist — or solo GP as they have come to be known — during the 2020–2021 boom, you might be in trouble now, especially as valuations from that era have often tanked. However, while the solo GP model has been a... |
| 19.04.2023 | eCommerce-Specific Video Solutions Bring Videowise USD 3M | Romanian eCommerce-centric video platform Videowise attracted USD 3M of investment in its Seed Round The platform allows a number of features increasing the loading speed of ‘shoppable videos’ and the feedback from them The new investment w... |
| 27.03.2023 | Romanian-founded Videowise raises ＄3M in a round led by Slack Fund | Romanian-founded Videowise raises ＄3M in a round led by Slack Fund
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| 21.02.2023 | Soleadify is now Veridion, with $6 million further to its name | Soleadify, the Romania-based "firmographic" database operator dealing with over 80 million company profiles, updated weekly, is getting a brand makeover.
Enter Veridion, the newly-branded company backed with a $6 million late seed... |
| 30.01.2023 | Leading and Emerging Startup and Investment Trends of 2022 in SeedBlink’s Annual Report | SeedBlink and Horváth & Partners published a comprehensive report about the CEE and EU startup ecosystem Fintech, Mobility, and Enterprise SaaS remain the most attractive sectors as security and impact & sustainability are the faste... |
| 24.01.2023 | FintechOS’ former VP of Marketing joins Underline VC as entrepreneur-in-residence | Bucharest, Romania ~
Eastern European venture capital firm Underline Ventures is announcing a number of new hires to its investment team, including EIR Ioana Serban, and Head of Communications Adriana Spulber.
Underline has recruited entrep... |
| 30.12.2022 | Romanian HRTech Nestor Attracts EUR 2M of Investment to Expand to Americas | Romanian people intelligence platform Nestor targets mid-to-large enterprises and helps employees take control over their professional development without t=stepping outside the organizations’ needs The startup nabbed a EUR 2M Seed round th... |
| 07.12.2022 | Romanian-born HRtech startup Nestor raises $2M in a seed round | Romanian-born HRtech startup Nestor raises $2M in a seed round
07 December, 2022, 13:21
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Nestor, HR software developer has raised $2... |
| 25.11.2022 | A new wave of Solo GP VCs is coming to Europe and Hypernova hopes to power it | The US has had solo VC fund managers for many years but the trend is only just starting to catch on in Europe. One of the newest is Underline Ventures, started this year by Bogdan Iordache in Romania. His career trajectory towards being a S... |
| 23.11.2022 | Romanian legaltech Goodlegal receives €1.2M in a pre-seed round | Romanian legaltech Goodlegal receives €1.2M in a pre-seed round
23 November, 2022, 17:19
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The Bucharest-based company Goodlegal anno... |
| 22.11.2022 | Legal tech startup Goodlegal celebrates €1.2 million pre-seed round | Launching from Bucharest, legal tech startup Goodlegal officially joined the scene today with the launch of its "legal infrastructure platform", aimed at providing an oven-ready software framework for legal squads, enabling them t... |
| 11.07.2022 | Launches, Partnerships & Expansions: Interesting startup milestones this week | The European startup ecosystem is full of interesting and exciting news, twists and turns. At EU-Startups, our aim is to keep you informed on everything that’s going on and share the inspiring entrepreneurial spirit this continent has to of... |
| - | Underline Ventures: the first solo GP fund in CEE launched by Bogdan Iordache | Best known as the founder of How to Web, one of Europe’s top 10 startup conferences, started in 2010, Bogdan has also been the founder of Conectoo (exited in 2013) and a former investor for Gecad Ventures, 3TS Capital Partners, and MVP Acad... |
| - | Bogdan Iordache, Underline Ventures: Top 5 promising Romanian startups | Underline Ventures partners from the early stages with Eastern European founders who build technology startups with global ambitions. It is the first investment fund in Central and Eastern Europe to have a solo GP, with Bogdan Iordache at t... |
| - | Croatian travel tech startup Turneo, €2m investment from Bessemer and Underline | The investment will accelerate Turneo’s mission to change hospitality by enabling world’s leading hotels to offer in-destination activities to their guests.
In addition to growing the team, the funding will enable expansion into new markets... |
| - | Bogdan Iordache has finally learned How to Web, launches solo GP fund Underline Ventures | Most well known as the founder of the long-running Bucharest-based How to Web conference, Bogdan Iordache is now joining the growing trend of solo GP venture funds under the banner Underline Ventures.
With stints at Gecad Ventures, 3TS Capi... |
| - | Underline Ventures closes its first fund at $20 million. 7 investments so far | Launched in 2022, Underline Ventures has now finalise the raise of its first fund, reaching a total of $20m. The fund wants to invest in 20+ early-stage startups founded by Eastern European founders, investing an average investment ticket o... |
| - | Romanian founded Videowise video marketing platform, $3M round from Slack Fund, Underline Ventures, FounderCollective, MuVentures, Ratio Ventures | “At Slack Fund, we are committed to supporting companies driving innovation and big ideas. We are thrilled to work with Videowise as the company brings an innovative, commerce-centric video platform to revolutionize how brands and retailers... |
