Sebastian Florian
Founder, editor in chief of Startups&TheCity.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to apply for the European Capital of Innovation 2020 award
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, decided to be one of the first cities to apply for the European Capital of Innovation award, as Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, launched the 2020...
Rubik Garage, a pre-accelerator program for early stage startups in Romania, calls for applications...
Rubik Hub has opened the application process for Rubik Garage | Batch 2, a 6 month pre-accelerator program for early-stage startups in Romania, supported by Orange.
Rubik Garage is a free program that requires a...
Two startups selected for the 2020 edition of the KPMG Startup Grow Pad acceleration...
Humano și 22Trust Venture are the two startups selected for the second edition of the Startup Grow Pad program, supported by KPMG Romania in partnership with Spherik Accelerator. The program will run from February...
Loïc Fel: “Artists are startupers, innovators both for the city and for the economy”
Loïc Fel is the former sustainable development manager of BETC, one of top French advertising agencies, he is the co-founder of the Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development (COAL) and creator of Contremarques, a...
Beez, the Romanian fintech set to disrupt the way people are buying online or...
With the help of a newly received financing round of €1.2M, Cluj-based fintech startup Beez, now operating on Romanian and UK markets, is set to disrupt the way people are buying. Beez users are...
Timisoara-based XVision makes the first implementation of an AI-based healthcare platform in a Romanian...
XVision, a medtech startup based in Timisoara, Romania, announced it has implemented its AI-based platform for analyzing lung X-rays within the Timisoara County Emergency Clinical Hospital. This is the first implementation of an AI-based...
WomenTech Network to launch in March in Bucharest, set to connect female top tech...
The WomenTech Network, a global community that promotes gender diversity in tech, expands into Romania, organizing a speed-networking event in Bucharest on March 10th 2020. The event intends to connect female engineers, data scientists,...
EU-Startups Summit Barcelona 2020: inspiring talks, high quality networking and a prize worth €75,000...
EU-Startups Summit (May 28-29 2020, Barcelona) it's one of Europe’s favourite startup conferences, held in the sunny capital of Catalonia. Organized by one of the leading online magazines covering startups on the continent, the...
Romanian companies get involved in IT capacity building in Africa
News about Romanian IT companies operating on the African continent are rare, as companies are lacking knowledge of this complex market and its opportunities. So it came quite as a surprise to find out...
Cluj startup ecosystem: €3 Million raised in 2019. Most promising Cluj startups & initiatives...
An estimated €3 Million were reportedly invested in Cluj-based startups in 2019, with fintech and e-commerce leading the way. Riding on a wave of good PR, great vibe and lots of initiatives being launched...
Coworking around the world for 6 months, from Lisbon to Chiang Mai
A digital nomad story, working from different places in Europe and Asia for the past 6 months. Co-working and co-living experiences in Lisbon, Singapore, Canggu (Bali) and Chiang Mai (Thailand).
Green Spots’s innovative urban solar charging station wins ‘Project of the Year in Smart...
Green Spots’s innovative urban solar charging station has been awarded ‘Project of the Year in Smart Energy’ at Romania’s Smart City Industry Awards 2019, which took place in Bucharest on the 11th of December....