| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.06.2026 | +++ Ona +++ OpenAI +++ ClimateTech +++ 20VC +++ Vsquared Ventures +++ Logicc +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 12. Juni). #STARTUPLAND
STARTUPLAND: Founders. VCs. Visionaries
+++ Am 10. März 2027 findet im Rhei... |
| 11.05.2026 | 18 Exits, über die die Szene spricht | Millionenschwere Exits und Mehrheitsbeteiligungen gehören zum Grundrauschen der Startup-Szene. Auch im Jahre 2026 gab es bereits einige interessante Exits. In der schnelllebigen Gründerszene sind viele Exits und Übernahmen aber auch sofort ... |
| 21.04.2026 | Supply chain leaders prioritise sustainability, survey finds | - |
| 08.04.2026 | 15 Exits, die alle mitbekommen haben sollten | Millionenschwere Exits und Mehrheitsbeteiligungen gehören zum Grundrauschen der Startup-Szene. Auch im Jahre 2026 gab es wieder einige interessante Exits. In der schnelllebigen Gründerszene sind viele Exits und Übernahmen aber auch sofort w... |
| 12.02.2026 | +++ Bayern +++ Startup Council +++ yoummday +++ Akoua +++ Startup-Verband +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Donnerstag, 12. Februar). #STARTUPLAND
Every unicorn has a beginning. Start yours at STARTUPLAND.
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| 11.02.2026 | 7 Exits, über die die Szene spricht | Millionenschwere Exits und Mehrheitsbeteiligungen gehören zum Grundrauschen der Startup-Szene. Auch im jungen Jahr 2026 gab es schon wieder einige interessante Exits. In der schnelllebigen Gründerszene sind viele Exits und Übernahmen aber a... |
| 24.01.2026 | European Impact Investing: Ananda Ventures Secures Record €73 Million Fund Close | Ananda Impact Ventures achieved a record €73 million first close for its fifth Core Impact Fund. This exceeded its €50 million target. The European firm empowers early-stage, tech-driven startups. These ventures tackle urgent social and env... |
| 21.01.2026 | +++ Reiner AI +++ Ananda Impact Ventures +++ Diginex +++ Plan A +++ USA +++ | +++ #StartupTicker +++ Studydrive-Gründer enthüllen ihr neues Startup Reiner AI +++ Ananda Impact Ventures trumpft mit fünften Fonds auf +++ Ein spannender Exit: Diginex übernimmt Plan A +++ Umfrage: USA verlieren deutlich an Attraktivität ... |
| 17.01.2026 | +++ Parloa +++ osapiens +++ Lookiero Outfittery +++ NetBird +++ Plan A +++ EGYM +++ Rosberg Ventures +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker-Wochenrückblick liefern wir einen schnellen Überblick darüber, was in der deutschsprachigen Startup-Szene zuletzt wirklich wichtig war! STARTUPLAND: SAVE THE DATE
The next unicorn? You’ll meet it ... |
| 16.01.2026 | “The Judgment Call of Your Existence”: Lubomila Jordanova on the Weight of Acquisition Offers | Bulgaria, Germany ~
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Last week, sustainability software company Plan A, with a Bulgarian founder at its helm, announced that it was acquired by Diginex (NASDAQ: DGNX) in an $80 million cash-and-equity transaction.
The aim? To bring ... |
| 15.01.2026 | German Startup Scene Thrives: New Unicorns, Major Investments Signal Strong Growth | The German startup landscape showed immense vitality in 2025. It defied market hesitation. Billions in venture capital flowed into innovative companies. Five new unicorns emerged. These firms lead the way in AI, aerospace, and defense tech.... |
| 13.01.2026 | +++ Rosberg Ventures +++ Unicorn-Time +++ Instaffo +++ Rulemapping Group +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Dienstag, 13. Januar). #STARTUPLAND: SAVE THE DATE
The next unicorn? You’ll meet it at STARTUPLAND
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| 12.01.2026 | Lookiero Outfittery erhält 17 Millionen – Vitrealab bekommt 9,4 Millionen – smatch sammelt 7,3 Millionen ein | Im #DealMonitor für den 12. Januar 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-A... |
| 09.01.2026 | Capital flows to scale as 2025 closed, Swap raises $100M, and CES 2026 showcases Europe’s hardware renaissance | This week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €407 million and 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories
In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most important/industry-rel... |
| 06.11.2025 | Eco-Honest Practices: How Lubomila Jordanova's Berlin-Based Firm 'Plan A' is Helping Businesses Centre Sustainability With Purpose "The question isn't whether sustainability matters– it's whether... | Lubomila Jordanova had already gathered a wealth of corporate experience across investment banking, venture capital, and fintech when, in 2017, she co-founded Plan A, a Berlin-based climate-tech company helping enterprises measure, manage, ... |
| 06.08.2025 | SCION Accelerator Takes Root to Power Nature Tech in Bulgaria and Romania | Bucharest, Sofia, Bulgaria, Romania ~
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SCION, evolved from the intersection of startup experience and biodiversity leadership, has announced the launch of its flagship 10-week accelerator for Nature Tech founders in Bulgaria and Rom... |
| 21.04.2025 | Eion teams up with Perdue for enhanced rock weathering in landmark carbon insetting deal | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Eion.]
Eion—a startup with a patented approach to measuring CO2 removed through enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on farmland—has teamed up with Perdue AgriBusiness in a firs... |
| 27.03.2025 | CEE has 3,800 VC backed startups. Too little or enough? | Central and Eastern Europe ~
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According to Dealroom’s latest report, CEE has 3,800 VC-backed startups, representing approximately 41% of Europe’s total 9,190 startups. The region has seen substantial growth compared to its incipient... |
| 02.07.2024 | 9 startuppige Buch-Tipps für den Sommer | Auf der Suche nach spannendem Lesestoff für einen netten Startup-Abend? In unserer Reihe Lesestoff für Gründerinnen und Gründer präsentieren wir spannende Bücher, die uns zuletzt begeistert haben. Viel Spaß beim Lesen – egal ob in guter, al... |
| 07.05.2024 | VivaTech 2024 Calls Top Tech People of Europe and the World | Viva Technology calls tech people and investors from Europe and all over the world to its 2024 Edition The event will take place on May 22-25th at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles An unprecedented set of global tech thought leaders and key de... |
| 27.03.2024 | EU-Startups Summit Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Malta | 10th Annual EU-Startup Summit in Malta welcomes all founders, investors, and all the startup people The date is May 9-10th, and the place is Mediterranean Conference Center in Valletta Panel discussions, keynote speeches, and fireside chats... |
| 21.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: MycoWorks opens mycelium plant, Flagship et al pump $250m into Indigo Ag, Pure Harvest bags $150m | After a pretty dry spell, agrifood investors were throwing around the big bucks this week, with the launch of two sizeable funds ($384m from Astanor Ventures and $312m from Humble Growth), while Flagship led a $250m round into Indigo Ag and... |
| 20.09.2023 | Plan A raises $27M to scale its business decarbonisation platform | Plan A, Europe’s leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting software provider, has successfully closed a $27 million funding round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Visa,... |
| 19.09.2023 | Carbon accounting startup Plan A just raised $27 million in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with this 11-slide pitch deck | Plan A CEO Lubomila Jordanova and Julie Kainz, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Plan A This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Carbon accounting startup Plan A just raised ... |
| 19.09.2023 | Berlin-based Plan A raises over €25.2 million to scale its business decarbonisation platform | - |
| 19.09.2023 | Plan A sammelt 27 Millionen ein – Metaloop streicht 16 Millionen ein – Arx erhält 1,15 Millionen | Im #DealMonitor für den 19. September 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 #DealMonito... |
| 19.09.2023 | Lightspeed Venture Partners backs Berlin-based greentech firm Plan A in €25.2M round: Know more | Read this article in:
Berlin-based Plan A, a corporate carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG reporting software provider, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $27M (approximately €25.2M) in a new funding round.
The round was led by... |
| 19.09.2023 | Berlin-based Plan A Secures €25.2 Million to Accelerate Business Decarbonization | Plan A, a prominent player in Europe’s corporate carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting software sector, has achieved a significant funding milestone by raising over €25.2 million. The funding round was spearheaded by Lightsp... |
| 19.09.2023 | European carbon accounting startup Plan A raises $27M from VC and corporate heavyweights | Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting platform for corporations, has raised $27 million in a Series A round of funding led by U.S. VC giant Lightspeed Venture partners.
Technically the funding... |
| 19.09.2023 | Lightspeed leads $27M round backing Plan A to expand its carbon accounting software in Europe | Corporate carbon accounting software provider Plan A has raised a $27 million funding round to expand its team, further develop the capabilities of its platform and expand throughout Europe as it throws its main focus on building its French... |
| 15.04.2023 | How fintech and SaaS are solving the climate challenge | Climate tech funding in 2022 represented more than a quarter of every venture dollar invested in 2022 according to PwC’s State of Climate Tech 2022 report. This represents aggregate funds raised for climate tech since the start of 2018 of $... |
| 07.12.2022 | Visa and Plan A team on sustainability in the enterprise | Franco-German sustainability and ESG mapping platform Plan A is joining hands with the payment cards giant Visa in an effort to get more businesses ready to decarbonise their supply chains.
The partners will aim to leverage Visa's global cu... |
| 08.09.2022 | Project A's PAKCon returns in early October for an intensive one-day deep-dive into all things startup and tech | Packing 60 sessions and twice as many speakers across five stages – the 5th edition of the Project A Knowledge Conference is set to continue its tradition of compact, no-fluff exploration of tech and its surrounding startup and venture capi... |
| 07.09.2022 | [email protected] 2022 on How Female Leadership Can Show Us the Ways Out of the Climate Crisis | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
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The international conference [email protected] 2022, dedicated to female leaders in business and tech, will take place on October 6th at the cultural center Toplocentrala, Sofia, Bulgaria. The third edition of the... |
| 24.08.2022 | 6 Female Founders Share What Makes Their Startup Culture Stand Out | Bucharest, Sofia, Bulgaria, Romania ~
As our team is getting more diverse, we are adding some testosterone weight to our scales, I was curious to find out how inclusive other SEE tech startups are. To say diversity matters is a cliche I wan... |
| 03.08.2022 | Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion | Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming, no industry is impervious. It’s not limited to any particular size of company, either — everything from fledgling startups and scaleup... |
| 07.06.2022 | Greentech Plan A opens London office to help UK businesses decarbonise and improve their ESG performance | Plan A's decarbonisation and ESG improvement platform enables UK companies to comply with market-specific regulations such as TCFD, SECR, or NFRD
Greentech to create 100 jobs to expand value proposition for existing and new clients in the U... |
| 10.05.2022 | Arcadia aggregates energy data for companies to build climate-friendly products, raises $200M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Arcadia, a platform that gives companies access t... |
| 25.04.2022 | Tech.eu Gathers an Impressive List of Speakers at the Tech.eu Summit 2022 | Tech.eu calls tech startup professionals and enthusiasts to a Tech.eu Summit 2022 The one-day event will have three stages, tightly packed with an expansive list of top speakers: from startup founders and investors to high-ranking officials... |
| 22.04.2022 | Whereby Marks Earth Day by Beginning Decarbonization Journey with Plan A | Whereby partners with Plan A for Earth Day 2022 "Our vision at Whereby is a world in which anywhere works. The climate crisis threatens the very existence of that world, and as an ethically ambitious company, we want to play our part i... |
| 20.04.2022 | Vaayu, a carbon tracking platform for retailers, pulls in $11.5M seed round led by Atomico | The last couple of years have seen a boom in carbon calculation startups, and long may it reign. (We need all the help we can get to avoid the disaster of global warming and climate change.) Included among those startups are those like plan... |
| 15.04.2022 | Tech.eu Summit will gather tech innovators to shape the sustainable growth of Europe | Brussels, Belgium ~
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Tech.eu, the online publication dedicated to the growing European technology industry, is organizing the Tech.eu Summit on May 17, 2022, at the Brussels Expo. With the overarching goal to shape the best possible... |
| 05.02.2022 | Plan A Raises a $10M Series A | Internationally established provider builds on software's unique ESG capabilities
To help companies meet the ever-increasing societal and regulatory pressures, Plan A is further deepening its SaaS platform's calculation engine and machine ... |
| 15.12.2021 | “Wir haben uns schon sehr früh dem Kampf gegen den Klimawandel gewidmet” | Das Berliner ClimateTech Plan A, das 2017 von Lubomila Jordanova und Nathan Bonnisseau gegründet wurde, möchte Unternehmen und Mitarbeiter:innen beim Thema Nachhaltigkeit unterstützen. Die KI-gesteuerte SaaS-Plattform des Startups unterstüt... |
| 08.12.2021 | VOTE the ‘Female-founded startup of the year’ | Bucharest, Sofia, Bulgaria, Romania ~
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It’s almost the end of the year and what better way to reach the finish line than to look at the most promising female-founded tech startups in SEE of 2021 or with founders born in our region. ... |
| 30.11.2021 | Fresh from a $10M round, Plan A launches SaaS tool for ESG reporting aimed at startups/VCs | With key ESG reporting regulations such as the EU Taxonomy and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) covering more than 75 percent of European companies, across the EU and the UK, the regulatory environment is evolving fast.
... |
| 29.11.2021 | Lubomila Jordanova, Plan A: You don’t need to climb Everest, just pick a hill and go | Company:
Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, one of the cleantech startups in Europe with the fastest growth. The Recursive reached out to her to get a better understanding of the terrain that has been gained towards the... |
| 29.11.2021 | Salesforce com : Are Remote Workers Better for Corporate Sustainability – Or Worse? | Can a company lower its carbon footprint with a remote workforce?
Nov 29, 20215 min read
Global emissions fell by a record amount in 2020. And while the pandemic lockdowns that drove that drop were temporary, it raised one of the biggest un... |
| 18.11.2021 | Amsterdam’s Keen Venture Partners raises €120M for second fund from founders of Just-eat Takeaway.com, Adyen, TomTom, others | Amsterdam-based Keen Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing European scale-ups at the Series A and B stage, announced that it has closed its second fund at €120M. The firm is targeting €150M with a final close... |
| 03.11.2021 | Plan A raises ~€8.6M Series A to expand its carbon accounting platform internationally | Berlin, Germany ~
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Bulgarian co-founded Plan A, the B2B carbon accounting platform and one of the pioneers in its market, continues its accelerated growth, raising €8.6 million in a Series A round, after previously grabbing €2.6M se... |
| 03.11.2021 | Carbon accounting startup Plan A raises $10m six months after seed | Berlin-based carbon accounting startup Plan A said on Wednesday that it had raised a $10m Series A, just half a year after raising a seed round. That makes it the second best-capitalised European company building such a technology, accordin... |
| 03.11.2021 | With COP26 underway, SoftBank-backed greentech startup Plan A raises €8.6M | Greentech startup Plan A has closed its Series A funding round, raising $10M (nearly €8.6M) in the process. The German company offers a software solution that helps businesses monitor and reduce their emissions. For the past decade, there w... |
| 03.11.2021 | HV Capital and Keen Venture Partners invest USD 10 million in Plan A | Berlin, 03 November 2021. Greentech start-up Plan A, the leading platform of science-based tools for carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG management, has successfully closed its Series A funding round. European venture capital firm H... |
| 15.07.2021 | Turning brain drain into brain gain: Bulgarian Tuk-tam’s Hive 2021 is coming this September | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
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Tuk-Tam, a non-government organization and a global brain gain network of Bulgarians, committed to improving Bulgaria and its communities abroad, is hosting its annual initiative Hive 2021. The event will take pla... |
| 07.07.2021 | AtoS : Scaler onboards 8 new start-ups to accelerate customers' digital transformation | Paris, July 7, 2021 – Atos today announces that 8 new start-ups are joining “Scaler, the Atos Accelerator” program, which now includes 20 start-ups. These start-ups will complement Atos’ industry-centric portfolio and boost its go-to-market... |
| 09.06.2021 | How to avoid greenwashing in your decarbonization efforts | Bucharest, Romania ~
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As the corporate decarbonization commitments increase, so does the confusion about what these claims represent. More and more companies proactively and voluntarily step forward to address the challenge of reduc... |
| 18.05.2021 | Tech.eu Podcast: Hangout session with Lubomila Jordanova, Plan A | The Tech.eu Podcast is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
In today’s show, listen to an interview that... |
| 21.04.2021 | Google’s hits green energy goals for 4 years straight and sets new target: Zero emissions | Image: iStock/MrJub
For the last four years, Google has matched 100% of its global electricity use with purchases of renewable energy. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, announced today that five data center sites in Denmark, Finlan... |
| 13.04.2021 | Bulgarian co-founded Plan A launches petition to end corporate greenwashing | Plan A, a Berlin-based greentech startup co-founded by Bulgarian entrepreneur Lubomila Jordanova, is launching a Europe-wide movement against greenwashging. The “Make 2021 Count” campaign aims to encourage EU to introduce uniform and bindin... |
| 09.04.2021 | Join our next To The Point event on ‘green innovation’ together with Rockstart: 15 April, 11AM CEST | Green tech? Cleantech? Impact tech? Sustainability tech?
Whatever you want to call it, there is a global shift underway in the world of startups, investors and policymakers alike, to increasingly support the creation and scaling of innovati... |
| 09.04.2021 | Pitching tips & tricks: real-life lessons from 3 SEE startups who know the game | Pitching skills are at the core of successful startups and any budding entrepreneur can tell you that. Lessons from those who made it and those who failed are vital. In today’s post-pandemic world, these skills and lessons can actually be l... |
| 10.03.2021 | Demeter invests in Plan A as part of its $3M financing round to empower enterprises with B2B carbon emission and ESG management software. | Plan A, founded in 2017, assists companies affected by carbon emission regulations, predominantly banking, financial and international corporations. Plan A’s end-to-end B2B platform lets companies measure, monitor, reduce and report their e... |
| 09.03.2021 | Plan A raises $3M to help more businesses turn sustainability into competitive advantage | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
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The B2B carbon reduction software Plan A that is co-founded by the Bulgarian Lubomila Jordanova, just announced that it has raised $3M to improve its carbon accounting and ESG platform, double its team and expand ... |
| 09.03.2021 | SoftBank, Demeter and Coparion invest $3M into Plan A’s B2B carbon monitoring and ESG platform | Plan A, a Berlin-based automated SaaS B2B startup, has raised $3 million for its platform that lets companies measure, monitor, reduce and report their environmental footprint, thus improving their ESG ratings. French VC Demeter led the rou... |
| 22.12.2020 | 7 neue Startups, von denen man bald mehr hören wird | Jeden Tag entstehen überall in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz neue Startups. deutsche-startups.de präsentiert an dieser Stelle wieder einmal einige ganz junge Startups, die zuletzt, also in den vergangenen Tagen, Wochen und Monaten... |
| 09.03.2020 | Tech.eu Podcast #159: How important are conferences for startups; Lubomila Jordanova on saving humanity with Plan A | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
You can find the latest... |
| 17.07.2019 | Tech.eu Podcast #126: Facial recognition rules in Europe, France and Britain bite back on big tech, the future of EU-US data flows, interviews with Lubomila Jordanova and Tim Schumacher, and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
You ... |
| 19.11.2018 | Lubomila Jordanova Who Does Not Believe in Plan B for the Planet | Lubomila Jordanova has just won an important recognition – her venture called Plan A is one of the three companies selected among 1000 applicants at the WeWork Creator Awards in Berlin. She pitched the project in front of an audience of 250... |
| - | Six months after leading the seed round, Demeter is once again investing in Plan A, which completes a $10 million Series-A with HV Capital, Keen Venture Partners and Coparion for its carbon emissions ... | Green-tech startup Plan A, the leading developer of a science-based carbon quantification SaaS platform for decarbonization and ESG management, has successfully closed its Series A investment.
European venture capital firm, HV Capital and ... |
| - | Bulgarian-founded greentech startup Plan A wins “The Europas Award 2021” | Berlin-based start-up Plan A, founded by Bulgarian Lubomila Jordanova, has been awarded the prestigious “The Europas Award 2021”. The greentech company’s carbon management software solution was distinguished in the category “Hottest Sustain... |
| - | Join our next To The Point event on 'green innovation' together with Rockstart: 15 April, 11AM CEST | Green tech? Cleantech? Impact tech? Sustainability tech?
Whatever you want to call it, there is a global shift underway in the world of startups, investors and policymakers alike, to increasingly support the creation and scaling of innovati... |
| - | Tech.eu Podcast: Hangout session with Lubomila Jordanova, Plan A | The Tech.eu Podcast is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
In today’s show, listen to an interview that... |
| - | Environmental Entrepreneur: The Fight Against Climate Change Needs to be Driven by Facts and Data | Lubomila Jordanova is a female entrepreneur who chose to tackle the complex issues of climate change with a clear actionable tool. Her venture Plan A was started in 2016 in effort to solve her own problem – the difficulty understanding what... |
| - | Bulgarian Co-founded Plan A Raises $3m to Power Up Carbon Emission Software, Expansion | Plan A, a Berlin-based startup co-founded by Bulgarian entrepreneur Lubomila Jordanova, has just raised $3 million in funding to enhance its carbon emissions and ESG management software for enterprise customers in Europe and set the scene f... |
