Romanian Open Banking Platform Finqware Expands Across Central and Eastern Europe With Regional Hiring Push

Romanian fintech Finqware, founded in 2018, is expanding its Open Banking platform across Central and Eastern Europe, opening new hiring pipelines in Romania, Hungary and Croatia and extending its banking connectivity to several additional countries.

Slovenian genomics firm GenePlanet attracts strategic investment from Lauxera Capital Partners

Slovenian genomics and laboratory company GenePlanet secured a strategic investment from Lauxera Capital Partners. The deal also saw early investor BlackPeak Capital partially exit while staying on the cap table, providing GenePlanet with additional capital to expand its genetic testing and next‑generation sequencing services across Europe.