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Top 50 Startup Investors in Bulgaria

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Bulgaria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Bulgaria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Bulgaria

Investor	Bulgaria investments
Eleven Ventures	76
LAUNCHub Ventures	36
Vitosha Venture Partners	17
Impetus Capital	13
New Vision 3	10
Hristo Hristov	7
BrightCap Ventures	4
Neo Gravity	4
Morningside Hill Capital Management	4
SeedBlink	4
Speedinvest	4
North Base Media	3
Accession Capital Partners	3
Black Peak Capital	3
Svetozar Georgiev	3
Daniel Tomov	3
PostScriptum Ventures	3
Georgi Petrov	3
Mihail Stoychev	3
Valeri Petrov	2
Ivaylo Simov	2
Xavier Buck	2
Petr Baron	2
Bogomil Balkansky	2
South Central Ventures	2
Neo Ventures	2
Thomas Peruzzi	2
Zoran Arsovski	2
Bulgarian Development Bank	2
Freigeist Capital	2
Denis Gorbunov	2
Michael Gutsmann	2
European Investment Bank	2
Marco Houwen	2
Skynet Trading	2
Casey Armstrong	2
NEVEQ	2
Openfund	2
Stanimir Vassilev	1
Nedko Krastev	1
Martin Markov	1
Karoll	1
Ralitsa Ivanova	1
Sofia Angels Ventures	1
KAYA	1
Silverline Capital	1
Simeon Tyutyundjiev	1
Pressian Karakostov	1
Velizar Velichkov	1
Ivaylo Ivanov	1

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We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
Cognitiwe — Our AI for retail and manufacturing products offers solutions in stock management, retail shrinkage, quality and health & safety monitoring.
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.

LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
Dataworks Research SRL — Soleadify provides business data enrichment with unprecedented coverage of SMBs, accurate classification and in-depth insights based on real-time updates.Always driven by the complexity of AI and Machine Learning, we build more efficient ways of getting more data and get more out of it. Urged on reliability and complete-ness, our datasets haveyet to be beaten in terms of accuracy and classification by industry mammoths.
Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.

Vitosha is a EUR 26m early-stage VC fund investing in innovative businesses in Bulgaria

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SoCyber — SoCyber provides services in the field of Information and Communication Technology, specializing in Cybersecurity services. The main business lines are security as a service, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and IT audits. After being a successful service company for several years, SoCyber developed a holistic vulnerability managementsolution "Kikimora.io" that makes the vulnerability management process centralised, transparent and easy to follow and understand. It enables companies to prioritise the remediation of vulnerabilities and address their security issues in a timely manner. The solution saves companies time and money by eliminating the need for repeated security testing that shows the same vulnerabilities.
Vodoraslo — Vodoraslo believes that everyone deserves better air quality, so by mixing innovation, design, and nature, we can create multiple positive impact solutions.
AIOT Cloud — Enabling businesses to be energy efficient while optimizing costs

Early stage venture capital fund partnering with founders at Seed and Series A stage. We are not simply the next investor who sends you money and shows up at board meetings. Our team seeks to empower you throughout your journey with actionable, game-changing support.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

SoCyber — SoCyber provides services in the field of Information and Communication Technology, specializing in Cybersecurity services. The main business lines are security as a service, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and IT audits. After being a successful service company for several years, SoCyber developed a holistic vulnerability managementsolution "Kikimora.io" that makes the vulnerability management process centralised, transparent and easy to follow and understand. It enables companies to prioritise the remediation of vulnerabilities and address their security issues in a timely manner. The solution saves companies time and money by eliminating the need for repeated security testing that shows the same vulnerabilities.
Kikimora — Kikimora.io is an information technology company that focuses on monitoring and controlling significant risks related to cybersecurity.
Tiger Technology — Tiger Technology has been developing software and designing high-performance, secure, data management solutions for companies in Enterprise IT, Surveillance, Media and Entertainment, and SMB/SME markets since 2004. It was identified by the Endeavour group as one of the foremost cloud technology providers on the market today.Customers areusing Tiger solutions in over 120 countries. Tiger’s software portfolio consists of high-speed NAS/SAN file system sharing, virtual volume set and virtual project workspace management in addition to HSM tiering and synchronization solutions. Tiger Technology enables organizations of any size and scale to manage their digital assets on-premise, public cloud, or a hybrid model. The company is privately held and benefits from the talent of over 40 industry-experienced engineering and field professionals. It is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria and in Alpharetta, GA, USA.

New Vision 3 is an Early-stage Venture Capital fund.

Investment focus

Consulting, Service Industry, Agriculture
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Bronia — Bronia is an intelligent acoustic signal processing technology. It uses cutting-edge proprietary technology to detect noises of interest, determine their sources, and act intelligently.
AdScout — AdScout enables businesses to reach new customers through a smart social referral platform
VibeJobs — VibeJobsis a company that provides quick and easy access to the most sought-after professionals in the labor market by leveraging a chatbot-based communication and recruiting automation solution.

Hristo Hristov - Chief Executive Officer @ DarikNews.bg

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Bulgaria, Ireland, Romania

Portfolio highlights

ONDO Smart Farming Solutions — Precise drip irrigation management and control, precise plant nutrition and climate control for various crops - ONDO Smart Farming solutions.
Releva — AI powered marketing automation for eCommerce Releva enables real-time revenue management with empathetic automated brand communication.
Biodit Global Technology JSC — Biodit Global Technology is a tech company that specializes in development of state-of-the-art biometric security systems.BIODIT means innovation, comfort, design but above all, it means the highest level of SECURITY. Endless areas of application - healthcare industry, business and office centers, commercial and residential buildings,hospitality, banking and automotive industries.The areas of application of our unique biometric technology for access control, time attendance monitoring and management of operations, just to name a few, are endless - healthcare industry, business and office centres, commercial and residential buildings, hospitality industry, university centres, banking industry, automotive industry, security companies etc.

We invest in early-stage tech startups with roots in Southeast Europe, working on defensible technology and a clear strategy for entering affluent markets.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Apricity — APRICITY is the world's first virtual fertility clinic. It aims at disrupting the fertility treatment experience and at improving chances for women and couples who have difficulties to conceive using data and Artificial Intelligence. The project is led by prominent entrepreneurs, medical practitioners, committed executives and data scientistswith a proven track record.
Kardi AI — With Kardi AI, we aim to offer medical grade cardiac home monitoring for a low cost by utilizing AI to achieve EKG level performance from a low-cost wearable that is available to the patient any time they need it. The Kardi AI kit is available from your cardiologist and contains all you'll need to have at home, cardiac monitoring whenever youneed. Kardi AI's artificial neural network will monitor and diagnose your heart every day, letting you know if you should contact your doctor or go to the emergency room.
LucidLink — LucidLink empowers fast and secure collaboration for creative teams working with any file size, across any distance.

Neo Gravity is the 4th successive investment fund of serial entrepreneurs active in Southeast Europe since 2005.Investment strategy is to build increasing stakes in high-end consumer goods & services providers and in personal mobility. Investee companies and targets may be based in SEE but operate on a global scaleRapid digitalization ofthe global economy, convergence of EM economies to Western standards and spread of the pandemic have changed the purchasing behavior of the connected consumer.

Investment focus

Pet, Craft Beer, Veterinary
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

DoggoCollar — DoggoCollar is a smart dog collar that tracks dogs’ location, activity, temperature and health.
Share a Scoot — Avoid traffic and parking. The service is entirely online without any additional hassle - directly through your smart phone with all operational systems We take care of the energy, the service, the insurance, the helmets and everything else.
Cheese the Queen — CHEESE THE QUEEN'S VISION IS TO BE THE NUMBER ONE CHOICE OF CONSCIOUS CONSUMERS IN SEARCH OF THE DELIGHT OF A HEALTHY AND TASTY PALATE. IN PURSUIT OF OUR VISION, WE ARE DEDICATED TO CREATE A SIGNATORY PRODUCT LINE THAT OFFERS INSPIRATIONAL AND NUTRITION-RICH TASTE EXPERIENCE. OUR COMMITMENT TO THE OVERALL WELLNESS OF THE EARTH AND ALL OF ITSINHABITANTS IS MANIFESTED IN OUR CHOOSING OF PLANT-BASEDFOOD TO CREATE OUR PORTFOLIO; ALONG WITH OUR WAYS OF PRODUCTION CENTERED AROUND RESPONSIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY, AND OUR SOURCING AROUND SUSTAINABILITY.

Private investment partnership

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Farming
Seed
Bulgaria, China

Portfolio highlights

nPloy — Simply set your filters and get matched with your dream job! Let top employers apply for you & connect with them via chat or a video call.
Yoga Llama — Yoga Llama is accessible to customers thanks to a smartphone application. This makes it possible for everyone to practice yoga whenever and wherever they want, with well-designed classes readily available in their pockets.
Zhongke Jiahe — Zhongke Jiahe develops compilation technology and aspires to build a universal, low-cost, high-performance fundamental software tool chain.

Explore startup tech-investments, a digital secondary market for early liquidity, and an optimised portfolio management solution. One-stop for smart investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SoCyber — SoCyber provides services in the field of Information and Communication Technology, specializing in Cybersecurity services. The main business lines are security as a service, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and IT audits. After being a successful service company for several years, SoCyber developed a holistic vulnerability managementsolution "Kikimora.io" that makes the vulnerability management process centralised, transparent and easy to follow and understand. It enables companies to prioritise the remediation of vulnerabilities and address their security issues in a timely manner. The solution saves companies time and money by eliminating the need for repeated security testing that shows the same vulnerabilities.
Kikimora — Kikimora.io is an information technology company that focuses on monitoring and controlling significant risks related to cybersecurity.
Affirma Biotech — Affirma Biotech develops new orally available immunotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of severe infections and cancer

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

Central Europe's leading provider of financing solutions for middle market businesses.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Health Care
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Private Equity
Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Plasta — PLASTA GROUP is one of the leading flexible plastics recyclers and producers in Europe, developing innovative polyethylene recycling solutions and accelerating a shift to a circular plastic economy.
Fomtech — Fomtech is a producer of branded technical textile products in the automotive and infrastructure cable industries.
Cenatorium — Cenatorium is a property tech company. They offer digital real estate information. They are supplying tools that enable the accelerated and automated use of conventional real estate operations, particularly in the financial industry. They provide real estate valuation, including automatic valuation, real estate portfolio monitoring, and propertyassessment in terms of damage risks.

BlackPeak Capital is a co-investment growth equity fund focused on investing in high-growth Southeast European small and medium enterprises. BlackPeak Capital is funded by the European Investment Fund, part of the European Investment Bank, through the JEREMIE initiative for support of the SME enterprises in Bulgaria.We invest in equity,mezzanine, and other forms of hybrid capital to support the investment plans of dynamic regional companies. As a co-investment fund, BlackPeak Capital invests alongside other private institutional or individual investors on pari-passu terms. Our target investment ticket is between €1-8 million per transaction.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Leisure
Private Equity, Seed, Series B
Bulgaria, France, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

GenePlanet — GenePlanet is a European company active in the field of biotechnology, specializing in genetic testing and research. They specialize in preventive genetic tests that are intended for the end user, but they also offer clinical genetic tests which help doctors with their therapeutic procedures. Their tests adhere to the highest standards of qualityand are based on the latest scientific discoveries. They provide people with information which can help them adjust their lifestyle accordingly and take measures that will provide additional protection from health risks due to genetic predispositions.
Software Group — Software Group is a global technology company that helps financial service providers digitize their business, extend outreach and improve efficiency.
ASTRAL Holidays — ASTRAL Holidays is currently the Bulgarian tour operator. The company is the exclusive partner of Thomas Cook for the Bulgarian market since 2013, a partnership which services close to 200,000 incoming tourist annually. Astral is also an exclusive partner for BCD travel, the second largest player globally in the travel industry, covering 110countries and employing more than 11,000 professionals.

Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck

Daniel is founding partner at Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund and investing in some of the most promising and exciting tech startups in CEE. Daniel has been involved in startups since 2000 as early stage investor and funded (in some cases bootstrapping) entrepreneur in diverse domains ranging from software to mobile to consumer goods torenewable energy. He has been lucky to meet and befriend with some of the greatest tech entrepreneurs in our region.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Malta

Portfolio highlights

Edgar — Edgar believes that a good story can beat even the biggest of marketing budgets. This is especially true for SMBs and all the crafters and makers out there. Instead of spending big on traditional advertising, brands should engage their peers with great content. To fix the industry, they created Edgar. Edgar gives brands the tools and access to thebest creatives (brand storytellers, writers, illustrators), so that they can delight their customers with awesome stories. StoryMarket is the place where Edgar hosts a hand-picked selection of storytellers from around the world. From copywriters, journalists, editors, illustrators, photographers to animators, outreach experts and community managers, they have the talent needed to craft awesome brand stories. Edgar handles strategy, management, creation and distribution of content. The scope of the campaign depends on each customer. Creating the brief and defining the scope is as easy as ordering a frozen yogurt. From a single piece of content, to a set of Instagram/Vine videos, or dedicated storytelling expert that sticks with the brand forever and ever. Edgar makes sure the content is nothing less than perfect and is delivered to you in record time (first piece no later than 10 working days). The creatives and freelancers working with Edgar benefit from their lightweight yet powerful storytelling tools. StoryCrafter is a tool for short, visual stories. Stories take the form of visualized storylines with interactive elements that boost engagement. You create the story by drag and dropping your photos, Instagrams, Vine or YouTube videos and spicing it up with short captions. Brands equip the stories with their contact, brief information and a call to action at the end of the story. Etsy artists for example sell their products straight from the story, while wineries invite people for a wine tasting. Sharing and embedding is done in seconds, while they make sure the story looks and feels exactly the same wherever. Be it web, mobile or tablets. With each story, the Edgar community is growing. A community of freelance storytellers that Edgar empowers with tools and opportunity to be rewarded for their skills. And a community of active visitors who return to be inspired by great content every single day. Brands and individuals benefit greatly from Edgar as it helps them engage their potential customers. And helps them convert existing customers into fans. At the end, there’s no more powerful instrument than people telling stories about your brand.
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.
Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

Postscriptum Ventures is a venture capital group with a broad portfolio of sustainable investments. Established in 2006, Postscriptum invests in innovative technology and disruptive business models, with a particular focus on the ongoing (r)evolution of the energy sector. We prefer to invest in early stage ventures where our expertise and experience can leverage our financial investments to help realize the full growth potential of the business.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Angel, Series A
Bulgaria, United States

Portfolio highlights

QualSights — World's Leading Consumer Insights Platform. Our first-of-its-kind consumer insights tools capture precise usage and deliver the deepest, most authentic insights.
Software Group — Software Group is a global technology company that helps financial service providers digitize their business, extend outreach and improve efficiency.
International Power Supply — International Power Supply is a manufacturer of power supply systems (www.ips-group.net) with customers in over 34 countries. The Company manufactures and markets globally a range of power systems with applications in the telecom, energy, defense, and other industries.IPS’s flagship product, Exeron, is an innovative off-grid power managementsolution, which won the 2014 Intersolar 2014 world innovation award for EES (Electrical Energy Storage) in Munich, Germany. Exeron is the world’s first modular off-grid system and possibly the industry’s most advanced product providing unparalleled reliability, scalability, and modularity. It aggregates energy from various sources, e.g. solar, wind, grid (if available), diesel generators and has virtually unlimited battery storage capacity. Its special software allows it to make autonomous decision under many different scenarios to optimize consumption and minimize costs.

Georgi Petrov is a Chief Executive Officer and Founder at SMSBump.

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, Shipping
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Rush — SaaS, Shopify App, E-Commerce.
Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck

Mihail Stoychev - Founder and CEO @ SMSBump

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, Shipping
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Rush — SaaS, Shopify App, E-Commerce.
Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck

Valeri is primarily in charge with investment opportunities in Bulgaria and the Western Balkans. Prior to that, he was Partner at Bancroft Private and, before joining Bancroft, he was Investment Director with Global Finance, running the company’s activities in Bulgaria. Valeri led and co-led many transactions in various countries acrossSouth-Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey among others). Prior to moving to the Private Equity industry, Valeri ran Orgachim, the largest paints & coating company in Bulgaria (backed by private equity funds, including RAEF) as CEO, where he completed a successful turnaround. Valeri also worked for the Royal Dutch/Shell, and held various positions within the organization. Valeri holds an MSc in Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia. He also attended Management Academy in London and ETP on Business Management in Delaware University, Sofia branch.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Human Resources
Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Pluria — Flexible offices in LATAM & Europe: hundreds of coworking spaces and meeting rooms for employees and teams. Hybrid work model for companies.
Langaware — Our use of language and speech can provide a window into our brain's health. When we speak, complex neural networks work together to form our thoughts and ideas. Utilizing our patented system and proprietary biomarkers.
Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

Ivaylo Simov devised eleven’s strategy. His notorious shyness can be overcome only with ample amounts of beer, preferably while skiing. He was previously a director in a private equity fund, but now wants to change the VC industry from the bottom up.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Coffee, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, Greece, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Edgar — Edgar believes that a good story can beat even the biggest of marketing budgets. This is especially true for SMBs and all the crafters and makers out there. Instead of spending big on traditional advertising, brands should engage their peers with great content. To fix the industry, they created Edgar. Edgar gives brands the tools and access to thebest creatives (brand storytellers, writers, illustrators), so that they can delight their customers with awesome stories. StoryMarket is the place where Edgar hosts a hand-picked selection of storytellers from around the world. From copywriters, journalists, editors, illustrators, photographers to animators, outreach experts and community managers, they have the talent needed to craft awesome brand stories. Edgar handles strategy, management, creation and distribution of content. The scope of the campaign depends on each customer. Creating the brief and defining the scope is as easy as ordering a frozen yogurt. From a single piece of content, to a set of Instagram/Vine videos, or dedicated storytelling expert that sticks with the brand forever and ever. Edgar makes sure the content is nothing less than perfect and is delivered to you in record time (first piece no later than 10 working days). The creatives and freelancers working with Edgar benefit from their lightweight yet powerful storytelling tools. StoryCrafter is a tool for short, visual stories. Stories take the form of visualized storylines with interactive elements that boost engagement. You create the story by drag and dropping your photos, Instagrams, Vine or YouTube videos and spicing it up with short captions. Brands equip the stories with their contact, brief information and a call to action at the end of the story. Etsy artists for example sell their products straight from the story, while wineries invite people for a wine tasting. Sharing and embedding is done in seconds, while they make sure the story looks and feels exactly the same wherever. Be it web, mobile or tablets. With each story, the Edgar community is growing. A community of freelance storytellers that Edgar empowers with tools and opportunity to be rewarded for their skills. And a community of active visitors who return to be inspired by great content every single day. Brands and individuals benefit greatly from Edgar as it helps them engage their potential customers. And helps them convert existing customers into fans. At the end, there’s no more powerful instrument than people telling stories about your brand.
Cognitiwe — Our AI for retail and manufacturing products offers solutions in stock management, retail shrinkage, quality and health & safety monitoring.
Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

Xavier has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1996. After co-founding several ventures like Datecenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS, eBrandServices and DomainInvest, Xavier's current role consists in deploying the group's international activities with a special focus on the domain name industry, internet traffic and traffic monetization. Xavierholds chairman positions in his formerly founded ventures and is director of a series of companies including DomainTools.com, eBrandServices, OpenRegistry and LeftoftheDot.

Investment focus

SaaS, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Bulgaria, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.
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Petr Baron CEO TBI Financial Services

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Marketing
Seed
Bulgaria, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Finmap — Finmap is financial management tool that allows business owners to see the state of their company without special knowledge of finance and studying of complex systems. By using 3 simple buttons - income, outcome and transfer - all analytics appears in a few clicks at a glance: how much the company earned, which projects more profitable, astatement of cash flows, accounts receivable and payable of the company. Finmap makes it possible to see the business situation on one sheet, removes chaos in financial management and gives the business owner the opportunity to make the right decisions
Swipe.bg — Swipe.bg is the first Bulgarian platform for buying and selling second-hand mobile phones.
Releva — AI powered marketing automation for eCommerce Releva enables real-time revenue management with empathetic automated brand communication.

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Stoke — Fiverr Enterprise is a SaaS platform which helps companies source, onboard, manage, and pay your freelance talent legally and compliantly.
Promethium — Promethium is an augmented data management provider with the first AI-powered solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) with automated data prep to deliver true self-service analytics. Users simply ask a question in natural language, and Promethium locates the data, demonstrates how it should be assembled, automatically generates theSQL statement to get the right data, and executes the query across multiple repositories.

South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AdScanner — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
Pixyle.ai — Pixyle.ai’s image recognition software detects fashion items in images. It's accurate and integrates seamlessly with any tech stack.The company help fashion retailers deliver visual AI solutions that allow shoppers to visually search for products and get relevant similar product recommendations on their e-commerce platforms, improving bothcustomer engagement and conversion rates. Their automatic tagging and business intelligence solutions enable retailers to save time, reduce costs, and make smarter decisions.
Mily Technologies — Mily Tech is a delivery analytics platform tailored for last-mile deliveries. It collects your data and gives it spatial context to help you quickly understand when, where and what happens on the field.

Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Israel, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

EnduroSat — At EnduroSat, we engineer, build and operate exceptional satellites. Our Mission is to make space universally accessible
Cyberwrite — TRUSTED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS One platform to accelerate value across the cyber insurance lifecycle THE LATEST FROM CYBERWRITE
GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.

Thomas Peruzzi - CTO @ Virtual Minds

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Agriculture
Seed, Convertible Note
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.

Zoran and his team focus on Digital Marketing Consulting for B2B growth-stage companies supported by the leading technology VC funds.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Angel
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

myTeam — Helping Sports Clubs and Academies to optimize their daily processes and communication with their members
Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.

Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) is a financial institution 99.9%-owned by the Bulgarian state. It was established in 1999 as the Encouragement Bank with main focus to support small and medium-sized enterprises. BDB is among the top four Bulgarian banks in terms of credit rating, rated "BBB" with a positive outlook by Fitch Ratings. It isthe only Bulgarian bank to provide direct financing as well as financing via other credit institutions. BDB is the best-positioned local bank to raise funds from international partners. Its subsidiaries are the National Guarantee Fund, which issues guarantees for bank loans to the non-financial sector; the Micro Financing Institution Jobs, which provide financing to SMEs and start-ups; the Capital Investments Fund as well as the BDB Leasing and BDB Factoring.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

MedLease — MedLease specializes in financing solutions for healthcare SMEs, young healthcare professionals and patients. Doctors, partnering clinics and MedLease all share the same end customer – the patient. The company strives to achieve synergy via helping young professionals improve their qualification, financing smaller clinics purchase modern machinesfor treatment/diagnostics and provide the patients with reliable and transparent socially responsible healthcare financing solutions. MedLease believes that this synergy based business model provides trickle down effects that benefits and improves the quality of life of the end customer.
Evrotrust — Best way to prove who you are and agree to anything, anywhere. Fully legal, secure and personal. Our mobile first eIDAS solution allows: eID, eSign, eTimestamp, eSeal, eDelivery with the highest status – qualified

Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

PROSION — PROSION Therapeutics is a drug development company that utilises cutting-edge technology to unlock so far undruggable targets and address highly unmet medical needs.
BioThrust — BioThrust offers breakthrough Bionic Bioreactors for affordable cell cultivation that scales from research to production.
EnduroSat — At EnduroSat, we engineer, build and operate exceptional satellites. Our Mission is to make space universally accessible

Denis Gorbunov

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, E-Commerce
Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Swipe.bg — Swipe.bg is the first Bulgarian platform for buying and selling second-hand mobile phones.
Releva — AI powered marketing automation for eCommerce Releva enables real-time revenue management with empathetic automated brand communication.

Michael Gutsmann is a CFO at Bigpoint.

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Agriculture
Seed, Convertible Note
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
France, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Eldrive — The largest charging point operator in Eastern Europe | Our network is expanding rapidly yet our focus is fixed on renewables, for a greener future. We provide AC & DC charging across Bulgaria, Romania and Lithuania.
ABN AMRO Bank — Als bank leggen wij de focus op inclusiviteit, duurzaamheid, sociaal ondernemen, innovatie, dagelijkse bankzaken en meer.

Marco Houwen, together with his partners LuxConnect and Datacenter Luxembourg, founded LuxCloud S.A. in April 2010.This partnership sets out to attract international SME and SMI, out of the field of Software development, to the Grand Duchy. LuxCloud will put Luxembourg firmly on the International Internet map and deliver services to SMB’s allover Europe.In 2000, Marco, in association with Xavier Buck, founded DCL Group, a leading Internet and e-commerce company, now recognized as one of the biggest Internet success stories in Luxembourg. Companies in the Group include Datacenter Luxembourg, LuxCloud, EuroDNS, e-Brand Services and voipGATE, to name but a few.Passionate about the promotion of Luxembourg, Marco is co-founder and President of LU-CIX A.s.b.l. and as such, contributes actively on the promotion of the Luxembourgish e-commerce hub.In addition to his role as LuxCloud CEO, Marco is CEO of Datacenter Luxembourg and a board member of the DCL Group.

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Agriculture
Seed, Convertible Note
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.

Skynet Trading is a digital assets trading and investment firm in the crypto capital market.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.
Optix — Optix is a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
Inference Labs — Inference Labs is advancing the use of zero-knowledge cryptography to guarantee the computational integrity of off-chain AI models. This approach enables AI operators to safeguard and conceal the Intellectual Property inherent in their Neural Networks, without disclosing the confidential weights and biases of their proprietary models. InferenceLabs is creating a network that aggregates verified intelligence (zk-VIN), offering a suite of tools for owners, users, and operators to efficiently integrate their artificial intelligence using zero-knowledge cryptography.

Casey Armstrong is the CMO at ShipBob.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rush — SaaS, Shopify App, E-Commerce.
Cogsy — Cogsy is the demand planning tool that supercharges how Shopify merchants and Amazon brands meet customer demand.
Fairing — Zero party data at speed & scale, for DTC brands on Shopify and beyond. 10x faster survey insights for marketing attribution, personalization, CRO & more

NEVEQ (New Europe Venture Equity) is a venture capital fund focused on seed and early stage investments enabling companies to scale and reach growth stage. The fund has invested among others in business intelligence, travel technology, semantic technology, social media, telecommunication solutions and data center businesses.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Analytics
Seed, Series A
Bulgaria, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Properati — Properati is an online and mobile property platform for the real estate market. The company offers buyers, users, agile, free of ads, banners website, and tenants or real estate investors with a quick, designed for them to be able to communicate effectively with the offeror who has what they are looking for.Properati has an office in Sao Paulo,Brazil, and was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina.
Content Insights — Helping online publishers evaluate, benchmark and rank content and authors' performance across platforms and languages

Openfund is a new seed capital venture, focusing on start-ups around software, mobile and the web. Based in Athens, Greece, the Openfund brings together an exceptional team of executives, an extensive list of advisors and a number of passionate investors to provide everything a team of entrepreneurs needs to turn ideas into products and success.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Goodvidio — Goodvidio is a software service that turns the power of product videos into a conversion optimization tool. It helps ecommerce stores optimize their product pages for conversions by adding curated product videos from social media, to engage shoppers and drive purchases.
100mentors — Your people empowered by GenAI. Ask better questions. Build better prompts.
Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

Stanimir Vassilev is the Co-Founder of Management Financial Group. He attended INSEAD .

Investment focus

Farming, FinTech, Payments
Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ONDO Smart Farming Solutions — Precise drip irrigation management and control, precise plant nutrition and climate control for various crops - ONDO Smart Farming solutions.
Payhawk — Save time and money, manage spend, and scale your business with Payhawk. Get premium Visa Cards, dedicated IBANs, SEPA, and Faster Payments, all in one place.

Nedko Krastev is the Founder of 365 Careers.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Pre-Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

365 Data Science — 365 Data Science offers data science, machine learning, and AI training to help you land your dream career. Learn ChatGPT, Python, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, and more.

Martin Markov is the CEO at Appolica. Martin attended Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.

Investment focus

Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Swipe.bg — Swipe.bg is the first Bulgarian platform for buying and selling second-hand mobile phones.

Karoll offers a wide range of financial products and services that include asset management, insurance, land banking, and equity financing.

Investment focus

Energy, GreenTech
Funding Round
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Hydrogenera — Hydrogenera specializes in the development of hydrogen technologies.

Ralitsa Ivanova is a CEO & Co-Founder at Tribie.

Investment focus

Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Swipe.bg — Swipe.bg is the first Bulgarian platform for buying and selling second-hand mobile phones.

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Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Italy, Austria

Portfolio highlights

inHEART — inHEART is a spin-off from IHU Liryc and Inria, two top-tier research centers respectively in cardiac electrophysiology and digital science and technology, that develops software solutions for medical image analysis and cardiac modeling in heart rhythm disorders. inHEART vision is to make the bridge between radiology and cardiology to become aworldwide leader in image-guided diagnosis, therapy planning and navigation software solutions for heart rhythm disorders.
Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
denxpert EHS&S software — denxpert EHS&S software specializes in providing cloud-based legal compliance software tailored for environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) professionals. The software is designed to streamline the processes required for ensuring compliance with environmental and occupational safety regulations, thereby reducing theadministrative burden on EHS&S professionals. It offers features such as data collection, reporting, and management of compliance tasks, aimed at minimizing health and safety legislation risks. denxpert EHS&S software also includes specialized solutions like the CRANE software for managing crane-related compliance issues efficiently. With a focus on simplifying EHS&S management, denxpert EHS&S software supports companies in maintaining compliance with relevant laws and regulations through its intuitive platform.

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
TrueClaim — Maximize your healthcare benefits. AI-powered hub that provides transparency and savings for employers. Identify savings opportunities across pharmacy, care navigation, and billing errors.
Zeta Labs — Revolutionize daily tasks with our AI assistant. Not just a chatbot - it chats, understands, and performs. Free yourself to focus on meaningful things.

Silverline Capital provides mezzanine and equity financing solutions to mid-market businesses in Bulgaria.

Investment focus

Retail, Security, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round
Bulgaria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Badu — Badu LTD is a fast growing online ecommerce marketplace that operates in Eastern Europe. Badu works with suppliers from around the world to provide fast, reliable and high-quality service for its customers. We deliver a hassle-free shopping experience with the highly preferable option of payment on delivery for intercontinental purchases, whichprovides us with a niche market for customers, seeking security when shopping from abroad.
Alcatraz AI — The Rock is an all-in-one touchless biometric access control device that combines facial biometrics, AI, and machine learning for top-notch security.

Simeon Tyutyundjiev

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Clinical Trials
Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

FindMeCure — This is the Google of Clinical Trials. Find suitable treatments in development and apply for participation within minutes. Search now.

Pressian Karakostov is a Founder and Chairman at PhoneArena company. Pressian previously worked at PubGalaxy as a Founder and Chairman. He attended Harvard Business School Executive Education in 2017.

Investment focus

Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Swipe.bg — Swipe.bg is the first Bulgarian platform for buying and selling second-hand mobile phones.

Velizar Velichkov

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Clinical Trials
Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

FindMeCure — This is the Google of Clinical Trials. Find suitable treatments in development and apply for participation within minutes. Search now.

Ivaylo is a Fintech expert with experience in professional services, business development, consulting and project management and a passion for entrepreneurship. He has worked at Ernst & Young, Leinonen Group and PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the areas of assurance, M&A and management consulting. He also held a position in the Board of Directorsof the European Equity Crowdfunding Association (EECA). Ivaylo holds a Bachelor degree in Business administration from Sofia University and an MBA from Cotrugli Business School. He is a member of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Investment focus