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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Hungary

The Next Web

By Gianluca Bellan and Andrea Hak Hungary is a startup hub on the rise. million in funding and made its first acquisition in 2017. You’ve no doubt already heard of Prezi, the country’s first unicorn, which ended the reign of boring presentations globally by making them more engaging and interactive.

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China’s CATL files for secondary listing in Hong Kong to fund expansion

TechNode

Shenzhen-listed battery giant CATL has applied to list in Hong Kong and plans to use the proceeds to fund the construction of a new 100 gigawatt-hours (GWh) battery pack factory in Hungary, in what could be the largest fundraising exercise in the city since early 2021. Bloomberg , TechNode reporting ]

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Singapore-based retail analytics company Trax raises $640M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock

TechCrunch

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV.

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China’s logistics robot maker VisionNav raises $76M at $500M valuation

TechCrunch

VisionNav Robotics , which specializes in autonomous forklifts, stacking vehicles and other logistics robots, is the latest industrial robot maker from China to get funded. and Hungary. “From controlling, dispatching, to sensing, we will have to improve our software capabilities as a whole.”

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Co-founders of Ukrainian startup Delfast discuss navigating through a crisis

TechCrunch

The usual priorities of a startup – securing venture funding, researching and developing new products, finding product-market fit – haven’t exactly been put on hold, but they are now much lower on Delfast’s to-do list.

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Novakid’s ESL app for children raises $4.25M Series A led by PortfoLion and LearnStart investors

TechCrunch

million Series A financing led by Hungary-based PortfoLion (part of OTP, a leading banking group in Eastern Europe), alongside a prominent edtech-focused U.S. fund, LearnStart. But it at least has a chance among the plethora of solutions out there, having raised a $4.25 TMT Investments and Xploration Capital also joined the round.

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TamatemGames raises $11M Series B led by PUBG maker Krafton

TechCrunch

Tamatem will use the latest funding to amplify its efforts by bringing various games with more popular titles to the Arabic-speaking market. India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Hungary, and Jordan. The startup will hire local talents in Saudi Arabia to expand further. “We have employees in the U.S.,