23 January 2023·6 min read

Ilya Mikhalchyk-Kananenka

Community Builder, Vestbee

VC & Startup Weekly News From CEE, January 14 - 20, 2023

New VC Funds

  • Galdana Ventures raises its third, $700M fund-of-funds. The firm will back VCs across the US, Asia, Israel, and Europe.
  • Sequoia Capital announces a $195M fund. The firm will focus on European/US pre-seed and seed-stage companies.
  • Steven Bartlett kickstarts a $100M-big VC Flight Story Fund. The firm will focus on European startups within the blockchain, biotech, health/wellbeing, commerce, technology, and space verticals.
  • German proptech investor PropTech1 Ventures announces the first €44M close of its next €100M fund. The firm will back European early-stage startups with tickets ranging from €0.5M to €4M.

CEE Startup Funding Rounds & Acquisitions

Startup Calls & Events

  • Google for Startups seeks cybersecurity startups to join its incoming Growth Academy: Cybersecurity. The 3-month program will assist founders with essential growth skills, internationalization strategies, and provide Google tools/products to help them scale. The program is open for early-stage startups from Europe, and registrations for the program are open till the 12th of February.
  • Ventures Thrive venture builder seeks deep tech startups for its inaugural program. The program is open for early-stage climate tech from CEE and provides a 6-month acceleration together with €1.5M equity-free funding for the participants. The applications for the program are open till the 16th of March.
  • Estonian tech conference Latitude59 invites startups to take part in its pitching competition with a €1M prize. The applications are open for early-stage startups with proven traction and positive impact which are actively fundraising. The applications are open till the 9th of April.
  • TechChill Riga looks out for startups interested in pitching at its Fifty Founders Battle pitch competition. The winners of the competition will get €10K in equity-free prizes and a chance of getting a €150K from BaDideas fund. Registration is open till the 10th of March.
  • Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation launches a business accelerator for local entrepreneurs. The program is open for those working within agriculture, energy, infrastructure, healthcare, cybersecurity and other industries that seek to make positive social change part of their strategy. The registrations are open till the 17th of February.
  • Human security-centred innovation forum BALTinnoSEC invites Polish startups/businesses and anyone interested in security-related topics. The event will occur on the 27th of January in the main school of fire service in Warsaw.

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