These Are the Central and Eastern European Soonicorns of 2023

Funding Rounds

▤ Summary

Startups with $1B+ valuations included Bulgarian fintech Payhawk, Czech enterprise software company Productboard, and Croatian automaker Rimac Automobili. We selected startups with an estimated valuation between $200-950M, the last funding year being at least 2017, and with headquarters or founding place in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Western Balkan countries, The Czech Republic, or Poland. So far, the accelerating Greek tech startup ecosystem has produced two unicorns: learning certification company PeopleCert and neobank Viva Wallet, which recently completed its partial acquisition by JP Morgan. Last round: £130M in debt and £130M from VCs in August 2022 Solution: A SaaS-based property management system that simplifies hotel operations, from reservations to payments and others. Last round: Support program from Tech Nation and a Series B of $80M in 2021 Solution: A beauty marketplace for finding, scheduling, and managing appointments, enabled by a SaaS mobile app.

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Amount $185.0M Total raised
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Date December 15, 2022 Announcement date
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Investors Bitdefender, Seven Bridges Genomics, Dynamo Software, Rockaway Capital, Cognism Lead investors
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Company http://www.base7booking.com Funded company

▥ Classifications

industries
Fintech & Banking
applications
Accounting and Taxes

◇ AskAI Classifications

Labels
SaaS Appointment Scheduling Software Business Management Software

▦ Linked Companies

Booksy
$50M to $100M
Ataccama
$50M to $100M
ReversingLabs
$10M to $25M
Bitdefender
$1M to $5M
Cognism
$10M to $25M
ICEYE
$50M to $100M
ShipMonk
$1M to $5M
Seven Bridges
$10M to $25M
Dynamo Software, Inc.
$50M to $100M
Mews
$100M to $250M
MaintainX
$50M to $100M
Rossum
$10M to $25M
Packhelp
$10M to $25M