Bulgaria startup ecosystem
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Sofia GDG DevFest 2026
Bulgaria's edition of the global Google Developer Group DevFest, held annually in Sofia with 600+ developers. Covers Android, Flutter, web, cloud (GCP), Firebase, and AI/ML engineering with talks in English from local and international speakers. Free admission; a primary networking event for Sofia's developer community which includes large local employers like VMware, SAP Labs, and a growing startup scene.
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Sofia Tech Park
Sofia Tech Park is Bulgaria's first state-owned science and technology park, incorporated in 2012 and officially opened in December 2015. It provides a business incubator supporting 40+ startups, 11 high-tech laboratories across ICT, life sciences, and clean energy, and the John Atanasoff Innovation Forum. The park hosts over 300 events annually and attracted more than 9 million BGN in company investment in 2023. It serves as a knowledge-economy hub for Bulgaria and the wider Balkan region.
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Software Group
Software Group is a global fintech technology company headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, providing digitalization and integration solutions -- including digital and neobanking, mobile wallet, agency banking, loan origination and payment switch platforms -- to banks, MFIs, insurers, telcos and governments. The company has delivered more than 500 projects and operates offices across Africa, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America in addition to Bulgaria. Software Group is a portfolio company of Sofia-based investor BrightCap Ventures.
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Spinoff Europa Conference 2026
The 5th edition of Southeast Europe's flagship deep-tech and science-to-business conference, gathering 400+ speakers and around 40 breakthrough spinoff teams. It pairs university and research-spinoff founders with investors, clusters, and policymakers — strongly relevant for science-based founders raising early capital.
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Spinoff Europa Conference 2027
The 6th edition of the Spinoff Europa Conference takes place in Sofia 17-18 June 2027. The event covers deep tech, biotech, greentech and AI, with a main conference programme, B2B matchmaking, 360-degree workshop labs and the Spinoff of the Year Award ceremony for Bulgaria's spinoff and deep-tech ecosystem.
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Team-GPT
Team-GPT is a Bulgarian-founded enterprise AI collaboration platform launched in 2023 by five co-founders including Vassil Valchanov. The platform helps companies discover and deploy AI use cases at scale, enabling teams to work with large language models in a shared workspace. Team-GPT raised $4.5 million in November 2024, closing what was reported as the largest Bulgarian seed round of that year. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with its founding team in Sofia.
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Telerik Academy
Telerik Academy is the first large private tech education initiative in Bulgaria, founded in 2009 by the co-founders of Telerik (Svetozar Georgiev, Boyko Iaramov, Vassil Terziev, and Hristo Kosev). It offers structured programming and digital skills training programs for school students, career starters, and professionals looking to upskill, with tracks in software engineering, QA, data science, and AI. The academy has trained over 170,000 learners and is a primary pipeline for Bulgaria's software engineering talent.
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Threeding
Threeding.com is a Bulgarian online marketplace where creators sell, and buyers purchase, free and paid 3D printing models and files across categories such as toys and hobby, art, home and office, tools, education and fashion. Designers can list their own 3D models on the platform for other makers to download and print. Threeding is a portfolio company of Morningside Hill Capital Management.
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TokWise
TokWise is a Bulgarian AI-powered SaaS company that helps renewable energy producers, green energy suppliers and commercial and industrial prosumers optimize market trading decisions. Its software targets aggregators and traders navigating the integration of intermittent renewable generation into energy markets, with a specific focus on Bulgaria's energy storage market. The founding team includes co-founders with technical and business-development backgrounds in the energy sector.
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Vipin Jain
Software engineering leader at Metacube Software with experience in enterprise application development and architecture. He is an announced speaker at the DEV: Challenge Accepted 2026 conference in Sofia.
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Vitosha Venture Partners
Founded in 2020 and based in Sofia, Vitosha Venture Partners is a €26M micro-VC co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds via the Bulgarian Fund of Funds. Led by a six-partner team including Erik Anderson, Max Gurvits, and Marin Iliev, the fund targets Bulgarian and Bulgaria-related early-stage tech startups with tickets ranging from €25K to €1M across seed and pre-seed rounds. The fund has invested in over 100 companies across enterprise applications, fintech, consumer tech, and vertical SaaS, with recent deals including Krik.bg (media-tech) and AIoTcloud. A second fund expanding to the wider SEE region was publicly signalled in 2024.
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Webbicus
Sofia-based organiser of the 'Challenge Accepted' technology conference series, including DEV: Challenge Accepted and QA: Challenge Accepted, held at the John Atanasoff Forum in Sofia Tech Park. The multi-track events bring international and Bulgarian speakers together on software development, architecture, cloud, AI, DevOps and quality assurance.
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Webit Festival Europe 2026
One of the largest tech and innovation summits in Southeast Europe, bringing 5,000+ attendees to Sofia's National Palace of Culture. Features a Founders Games startup competition, government innovation tracks, and strong representation from SEE ecosystem players. Entry-level tickets from EUR 100.
