Anna Kowalski 
Polish AI startup Hellobot, which provides autonomous voice agents for businesses, secured a 5 million‑zloty financing round led by the Lowercap fund together with business angels, aimed at scaling its technology across the market.
BlubRaid, created by four Romanian high‑school students, offers a dual‑brain SaaS solution that can block or verify AI agent actions to ensure compliance with company policies and European GDPR/AI Act regulations. The team has released an MVP, is courting investors, and aims for European market entry before expanding to the US.
Polish startup Silkland launched its Ultra96 HDMI cable, offering twice the bandwidth of standard Ultra High Speed HDMI cables and enabling uncompressed 4K at 240 Hz, and has opened pre‑orders for the product.
Żabka expands its printing service by installing Zeccer printing kiosks in almost 1,400 stores, allowing customers to print labels, documents and other items instantly without traveling to a specialist point.
European venture capital fund Brighteye Ventures announced the first close of Fund III, securing $72 million to back startups developing solutions for education and the job market.
Polish pipe maker Radpol Pipes was fully acquired by French industrial group Elydan after the THC fund sold its entire stake, marking an exit for the fund and a cross‑border acquisition within the European heating‑infrastructure sector.
After four years of in‑person training, Romania’s largest entrepreneurial centre, Stup, created by Banca Transilvania, launched an online learning programme called “Stup vine la tine” to give its 48,000 members free live courses accessible anywhere, starting with a session on viral social‑media hooks on 22 September.
Hard2beat raised its fund size to 110.3 million PLN, becoming the largest fund within the PFR Starter programme, with PFR Ventures increasing its stake and additional contributions from private investors and the management team.
Polish startup GPN-Star has unveiled a powerful AI‑driven platform that works like a “genetic ChatGPT” to pinpoint DNA variants influencing organism traits and disease susceptibility. Independent testing by UC Berkeley showed the tool beats existing genomic approaches and can be trained with far lower resource demands than the largest genome‑focused models.
Polish companies Exatel, Energa Operator, Creotech Instruments and Phoenix Systems formed the Polish SatCom Alliance to develop an independent satellite communications infrastructure for Poland.