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A life in pictures
evat Posted On August 20, 2014


If you are going on a holiday, you are probably already looking forward to sharing the beach, nightlife or sports experiences with your friends and family. Check out our selection of 13 CEE startups:

Austria

If you are more of an old-fashioned photographer, the lovely products of Catchbooks could be for you. The empty pages of the sketchbook leave space for photos, notes or drawings and keep your memories the traditional way.

Bulgaria

The Sofia-based service Volofy allows users to take photos for good causes. By uploading pictures to your facebook account and setting watermarks to them, you can give away online space and help others. Companies that agreed with Volofy to appear on the watermark will make a donation for each snap.

Sofia-based CarsVibe providesa platform for car enthusiasts and lets them share photos of their vehicles online. Moreover, users are able to tell about adventures, post comment and get in touch with other motorists.

Croatia

The app of Croatian startup Backway lets you trace your route – “just snap a photo and voila!” You can navigate on a map, find out where you are, and save your favourite places in pictures.

Estonia

Photry created an easy to use online storage service for snapshots. Use their cloud to access your pictures independent from devices you are using and never lose a precious moment again.

The photo sharing service Yapza aims to motivate users to take lots and lots of pictures. So, before you can start to explore your friends’ sites, you have to upload and share pictures yourself. The Tallin-based startup aims to help you stay connected with your friends by showing them what you’re up to every moment.

Hungary

Hugarian MobilPrizma aims to go beyond usual pictures on a screen and helps you creating a multi-perspective 3D wiggle gif. The result shall look like time is frozen for just a moment.

Poland

Diarize helps you to save and share all important moments of your life. Their app allows you to upload photos regularly and if you forget that for a longer time, Diarize will remind you with an alert function.

You forgot where you took this beautiful picture while on the road? With Warsaw based Instratrip you can always remember where and when you were when you used your mobile camera. Their service helps you to connect your captured moments in a map and keeps track of your journey.

Poznan-based Jourmie is not only a photo storage app for your journey memories but also helps to connect to your fellow travellers. Using Jourmie Aalbums gives you access to all the photos participants of the same tour made so you can easily exchange your impressions.

Romania

Can’t remember who took this photo you looked so nice in? The photo sharing app Lifebox helps you and your friends to share photos so you’ll always know where your pictures are stored. The service is private and runs as a background app on your smartphone.

Slovenia

The photo service from Ljubljana is a service for the aesthetics among you. 8memo not only provides an impressive picture viewing experience but also aims to help you keep your stored moments organised.

Ukraine

The startup Pics.io came up with an idea for a tool that allows you to edit and organise your pictures in a cloud. You can access their online storage space from everywhere and use their service to manipulate millions of photos.


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Startit FEST to take place on 15-19 May
sandrav Posted On April 28, 2014


Are you ready to meet local startups, entrepreneurs, VCs, speakers and media in the capital of Serbia? Then mark the date, 15-19 May, because Startit FEST is soon to take the stage in Belgrade and build the bridge between the SEE scene and key European players.

“We aim to share the energy that the Serbian startup scene has to offer and engage others in it,” Zoja Kukic, part of the organising team at Startit FEST, told inventures.eu. Organised by SEE ICT, an organisation committed to developing the startup ecosystem in the region, the event is bringing some big players in the game

London-based accelerator Seedcamp will host a Mini Seedcamp for half a day, where the local winners will be invited to participate in Seedcamp Week London, taking place in September. Applications close on 5 May so if you are an ambitious founder and plan to work towards success, apply here.

Alongside Startup Standup, Pioneers Unplugged, the new edition of Start Trek and a second Social Change Hackathon, a plethora of entrepreneurs such as Branko Milutinovic from Nordeus, Sinisa Komlenic from Themes Kingdom and Bane Seslija from Deploy Inc. will be attending the event.

Pitches, lectures, workshops, networking sessions and panels are some of the activities the expected 5.000+ visitors can choose from while at the White Palace. And parties, too! This way, attendees can experience a bit of both worlds: startup talk during the day, and quite some nightlife after dark. 

Excluding premium events, entrance to Startit FEST will be free of charge. “We want to attract the wider audience in Serbia, provide an opportunity for networking, learning and having fun and use the Festival to engage them more in a startup way of thinking,” said Kukic. Make sure to register here.

inventures.eu is a media partner. 


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15 CEE food and drinks startups for lazy days
manonp Posted On April 10, 2014


Whether you’re busy, lazy, or just unable to boil an egg without burning your flat down, there’s always a reason to order in. From eye-candy cupcakes to strong booze, we’ve put together a mouth-watering list of CEE startups that make fine foods delivered to your couch or your desk without questions asked. Have we missed anyone? Let us know!

Austria

Mjam
Founded in 2008 by Angelo Laub, Mjam is a platform that allows you order food from over 700 restaurants in 51 cities across the country, covering a wide range of cuisine types. The team has also recently developed an app for iOS and Android for hungry people on the go.

Feinkoch
If you feel like cooking a scrumptious meal yourself but are appalled by the tragic emptiness of your fridge, this one is for you. Feinkoch offers to choose a dish from their appetising selection, then gathers all the ingredients and delivers them to you, together with the recipe. In a nutshell, the Vienna-based startup aims to restore the fun of home cooking while sparing you the time – and the chore – of going grocery shopping.

KochAbo
In the same spirit, KochAbo created a food box service, proposed in weekly plans or twice a month. Customers choose between a set of three or five classic or vegetarian recipes, created by its chef, according to the number of guests. Corresponding ingredients and fresh products are then delivered at home, free of charge. The company also proposes a fruit box plan, delivering three or six kilogrammes of fresh fruits at your door.

Bulgaria

BGMENU
BGMENU allows ordering meals from 250 restaurants across the country, from sushi to burritos, available for takeout or home-delivery. This foreigner-friendly platform possesses an interface both in Bulgarian and in English, and many filters to speed up the research process.

Take-a-Cake
Thanks to the online ordering service offered by Take-a-Cake bakery, customers can compose a set of at least six pieces picked amongst sweet cupcakes or savoury muffins, according to the flavours of the day (displayed forthe week to come). Their order is then available for pick-up or home delivery, coming fresh from the bakery on the day chosen. Sadly, only the lucky dwellers of Sofia can enjoy this service for now.

Murzelivo
On a single platform, Murzelivo combines the resources of an online supermarket and a restaurant. It offers a variety of products to deliver within one hour in selected areas of Sofia, from fresh burgers and energy drinks to classic grocery items and household goods.

Croatia

Pauza
This web and mobile app offers an ordering service from a large number of restaurants in Zagreb, as well as user ratings and reviews. Numerous search criteria such as minimum order amount, delivery time, and types of food facilitate the navigation, also proposed in English for voracious foreigners.

Estonia

TurboDeliver
Through multiservice platform TurboDeliver, Tallinn inhabitants can get sushi, pizzas, kebabs from over 30 restaurants delivered to their doorstep from 9am to 11pm. The most romantic of our readers will be delighted to hear that, in addition to food, the website also proposes aflower delivery service across the country.

MyChef
Founded in 2011 by Columbia University grad Eugene Birman, and Tartu University Law School grad Tanel Ader, Mychef.ee is an online platform for individuals and businesses that allows the order and delivery of various types of food – including frozen yogurts and smoothies – from many restaurants initially within Tallinn.

Poland

Pizzaportal
Pizzaportal gathers over 2.500 restaurants across the country to order from, via an online portal and a mobile app. Unlike its name suggests, the service is not limited to pizza but also includes sushi, kebab, pierogi, Chinese food and other local and exotic delicacies.

Slovenia

Flaviar
Here is where serious things start. This British-Slovenian startup offers to responsible adults – and others – the possibility to discover fine spirits and hard-to-find liquors from all around the globe thanks to its subscription service. Every month, members of this tasting club receive a pack containing five sample bottles with three shots each of various alcohols carefully selected by Flaviar curators.

Ehrana
Created by Jernej, Žiga and Borut, students in IT science and electrical engineering, this startup aims to simplify online food ordering within the country by proposing a unique and user-friendly platform. Featuring ratings and user reviews for more transparency, Ehrana also offers special deals.

Slovakia

eDonaska
eDonaska is a one-stop online portal for food and beverage delivery in over 85 cities across the country. Colourful and accessible even to English speakers, the website puts an end to the interminable leaflet-browsing-before-picking-the-phone practice, by offering an extensive variety of food to order with just a click or two.

Ukraine

Zakaz
Zakaz is a platform offering a wine and groceries delivery service in Kiev, Donetsk and Sevastopol from six selected retailers. The offers on the website are all at shelves prices and customers can choose between different types of delivery, getting items at their doorstep at up to 11pm.

Restoris
Launched in Kiev by Yevhenii Vizhul, Restoris gathers hundreds of restaurants to order online from, proposing an extensive assortment of food types. The young startup aims to implement a pyramidal reward programme, in which each customer would get 1% from its order added to its virtual wallet, as well as 1% of the order of friends invited to join.


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7 CEE startups to help you find the job you want
Team Posted On March 28, 2014


Just in time for the start of the big application period for summer jobs, we have compiled our own list of startups that help find one’s dream job. 

Austria

MercuryPuzzle
The Austrian startup partners up with big firms and attracts users by giving them the opportunity to joyfully explore their talents, linking them to the big corporates. By using personality tests and games, users can compete against each other and impress recruiters that search the network for young professionals. Read more about them here.

Bulgaria

Jobio
“I’m sorry, we’ve decided to hire a more experienced candidate.” Does this sound painfully familiar? It’s particularly challenging for young people trying to find a job. That’s why Bulgarian startup Jobio has decided to do something about it by helping job candidates to demonstrate their skills and have them matched with the most suitable job. Read more about them here.

Estonia

GoWorkaBit
The Estonian startup connects job seekers with companies that need extra staff for a short period of time and quite often, on short notice. Who is it for? People who want to have the flexibility to when and where they want to work. Read more about the team here.

Romania

TjobsRecruit
The Romanian venture is a recruitment portal that specialises in cross-border job openings and claims to have access to a network of 500 partner agencies and more than two million candidates in their online directory. Today, the team has offices in Romania, Germany, France and the UK.

Slovakia

InHiro 
Team InHiro wants to solve one specific issue on the market for high potentials: They usually already have a job and, frankly, they don’t browse offerings. The founder duo believes that the best employees often come from startups’ existing networks and employees. With their help, startups on the search for talents can share their ad on social media and find the best candidates for a job. Read more about them here.

LiveDispatcher
Slovak LiveDispatcher allows HR managers to track the activities of their field workers in real time, while potential employees can view what jobs are available in their vicinity.

Ukraine

Scout-o-Matic
Discovering and hiring the right developer is – like with any other job position, not all that easy. Ukrainian Scout-o-Matic has therefore created a search engine that matches the skills and location of a developer with potential employers. 


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