.@Payhawkcom raises $100m at $1bn valuation Feeling lucky to be the early backer of first unicorns from CEE countries Payhawk 🇧🇬 UiPath 🇷🇴 Peak 🇹🇷 Earlybird VC bit.ly/35yFXEm

After discovering the depth of their #blog content on #HR and workplace topics, I just signed up for the Orgnostic newsletter. ✍️🗞️ Highly recommended for insights, actionable tips & clean design. (Hat tip to puren ucar + Mehmet Atici) Check it out + sign up too! 👀 ⤵️

.Business Insider highlights 50 Seed investors: VCs & angels backing companies across #Europe. It's based on analyzing 25 performance characteristics, startup progress, total follow-on raises, exits & time to new rounds. 🙌🏽 Mehmet Atici + all listed ⬇️! 👀 bit.ly/3DhGcTf

İş ortaklarımız ile ayarladığımız otobüslerle, organizasyonu @babalativi ve Yol Günlükleri ekibi ile birlikte gerçekleştirerek depremzedelerimiz için her gün Hatay’dan İstanbul, Ankara ve Antalya’ya ücretsiz tahliye seferleri düzenlemekteyiz. deprem-tahliye.obilet.com/230373023552951 #deprem

Earlybird Digital East is delighted to announce the $20m round of Vue Storefront, market standard for frontends of headless commerce stacks 🙌🏽 Congrats Patrick Friday, Bart Roszkowski, Filip Rakowski & the Vue Storefront team cc: Mehmet Atici Read more TechCrunch: tcrn.ch/40cFTSi

My partner Mehmet Atici is on the Global Outlook for Tech Investments panel tomorrow at the 2023 GPC Conference in NYC. gpcconference.org/2023-agenda/th… For more details: gpcconference.org

Never slave away on authorization and permissions again!

🚀 Cerbos Cloud is now in private beta, streamlining authorization policy management for devs + We've secured $7.5M in extended seed funding, led by OMERS Ventures Thanks for your support! 📖 Read more: cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-cl… @techcrunch #Cerbos #CerbosCloud #Authorization

Earlybird Digital East’s Mehmet Atici shared with TheRecursive his views on the current VC market “The current macroeconomic environment makes the good investors out there stand out.” 👀Read more: bit.ly/41WzBqL #startups #CEE #VC #investors

Binalyze Secures $19 Million in Series A Funding Led by Molten Ventures with participation from Earlybird Digital East and OpenOcean, and new investors Cisco Investments, Citibank Ventures, and Deutsche Bank Ventures. ow.ly/lyj150PK8g5 #DFIR #News #Cybersecurity

.Draftwise is transforming the way lawyers draft & negotiate legal documents with #AI. In a blog post by Mehmet Atici, discover Digital East Fund's perspective on what sets DraftWise apart: 👀 medium.com/birds-view/how…

🎉We've raised a $20M Series A 🎉 The round was led by Index Ventures w/support from Y Combinator & Earlybird VC This is just the beginning for DraftWise🚀 Here's what the founders have to say about what's next for the team: draftwise.com/blog/series-a-…

Today we're thrilled to introduce Jace, your AI employee. Jace goes beyond AI chatbots by being able to handle longer-running tasks and taking actions in the digital world. By using our new AWA-1 (Autonomous Web Agent) model, Jace can use a browser to interact with websites

Proud to announce the state-of-the-art web agent! This is wild, human performance is 78%, AWA-1.5 is 57%. WebArena paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.13854

I am delighted to confirm that the Digital East Fund will be launching with our own distinct brand in the fall. This is a chance to double down on the focus that has enabled our success this far and I can’t wait to share our new brand with the world soon. sifted.eu/articles/early…

This conversation between Cem Sertoglu and Harry Stebbings is a master class in venture. A must listen.

This is the one hiring secret that all outlier companies share: they hire for potential — not just experience. Optimize for candidates with future capacity, not just shiny CVs. Here’s how the best companies balance potential versus experience. bekventures.com/article/potent…

Today, we’re introducing Jace, your AI Email Agent. Jace uses your past responses, checks your calendar, and pulls in context from attachments or the web to draft replies in your voice and schedule your meetings. Imagine an executive assistant that knows exactly what to reply,

We launched OpenClaw for Slack. 3h ago. We hit $1M ARR just now. Wild.