Sebastian Florian
Founder, editor in chief of Startups&TheCity.
OpenAI, Crunchbase and Amadeus Capital Executives Join Techsylvania 2026
Techsylvania, Eastern Europe’s flagship technology and innovation conference, is accelerating toward its June 25–26 takeover of Cluj-Napoca with a powerhouse wave of speaker announcements. Each new name signals the same thing: 2026 isn’t just...
CEE Finance Leaders to Gather in Oradea for Milestone 5th Edition of UNCHAIN Festival
The historic Oradea Fortress in Romania is set to become the epicenter of European financial innovation on June 17–18, 2026, as it hosts the 5th anniversary edition of the UNCHAIN Festival. This high-level summit will bring together...
Riding the AI Wave: Why the Real Challenge Is Not Technology, but Change
AI is no longer a futuristic concept—it is a global tsunami hitting every industry from the United States to Chile, Uganda, and Romania. Yet, while executives rush to adopt AI just to keep up...
eYou raises €300,000 to build a European social media alternative, surpasses 10,000 sign-ups on...
The eYou platform, a Romania-based social media startup currently in pre-launch, aims to become a European alternative to traditional networks, focusing on algorithm transparency, user control over feeds, and AI-powered fact-checking. The project has...
Techsylvania 2026 Officially Announced
Techsylvania, one of Eastern Europe’s leading tech and business conferences, announces the launch of its 2026 edition. The event will take place on June 24–25, 2026, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, bringing together thousands of innovators,...
UNCHAIN 2026 to Tackle AI, Legacy Infrastructure, and Execution Gaps in European Banking
On June 17–18, 2026, Oradea will host the fifth edition of UNCHAIN Festival, one of the leading finance and technology events in Central and Eastern Europe. The organizers expect more than 800 senior leaders...
Rubik Hub Launches Healthcare-Focused Rubik Garage Accelerator in Europe
Rubik Hub announces the 8th edition of Rubik Garage, its flagship accelerator program, dedicated for the first time exclusively to the healthcare industry. The program runs from October 2025 to February 2026 and is...
Young Minds, Bold Ideas: Inside the Winning Projects at Cluj Hackathon 2025
With over 50 teams, 40 mentors, and 30 real-world challenges, this year’s Cluj Hackathon, held from May 24–26 2025, pushed boundaries in agentic AI — and made space for some of the brightest young...
LevelUP Demo Day: Driving Innovation in Health & Life Sciences in Romania and beyond
On February 27, 2025, the LevelUP Health & Life Sciences Accelerator Demo Day took place at Hub UTCN in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, bringing together some of the most promising health tech startups. The program’s finalists...
Accelerating the digitization of town halls, using artificial intelligence
Between November 2024 and February 2025, the Cluj IT Association, in partnership with Smart Innovation Norway, carried out the project "AI-Driven Green Digital Transformation in Public Administration".
The project pursued the development of an approach model...
Seven years of EIT Health presence in the Romanian HealthTech ecosystem
EIT Health, a network of best-in-class health innovators supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, began engaging with the Romanian healthtech ecosystem by opening a...
EmpoWomen: Final Call for Women-Led Deep-Tech Startups to Join the Programme
The EmpoWomen Programme launched last month their 2nd Open Call for its transformative initiative, empowering women-led deep-tech startups across European emerging markets and associated countries.
The programme offers a unique opportunity for startups to...