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Payment management platform Payhawk – Bulgaria’s only unicorn – has opened a new office in Vilnius, Lithuania, it announced on Monday, 17 July. Established in 2018, Payhawk currently serves clients in 32 countries and offers its platform to businesses across the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK and the US. With
In Slovakia, a prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between the country’s international airports in Nitra and Bratislava. The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, is equipped with a BMW engine and runs on regular petrol. Its creator, professor Stefan Klein, said it could fly about 1,000km,
A Ukrainian start-up, Horos.ai promises to help farmers maximize yield, and minimize herbicide and water use with drone technology-driven machine learning. “We were early drone enthusiasts. A few years after meeting in 2013, we started to think about ways drone footage and data could be useful. One
Young entrepreneurs from Poland have developed applications based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to come up with what they believe is a game-changer for the recruitment industry: Emplocity‘s tireless chat-bot is privy to all of a company’s open positions and can communicate with candidates about
Central and Eastern Europeans were forced to live under a communist regime for four decades, which hindered their development and broke them off from Western European progress. However, the former Soviet block has been reviving, growing twice as fast as the Western part of the continent for years, which has
More than 60% of Hungarian start-ups are using some sort of “deep tech,” according to the Hungarian Start-up Report conducted by Microsoft among 232 local start-ups. The top verticals were AI, Big Data, Fintech, Analytics/BI, IoT, and Medtech. The study strengthens a preconceived notion that Hungary