Long-form conversations with the investors, fund managers and ecosystem builders who allocate capital across Central & Eastern Europe — so you hear how decisions get made market by market, not from a single regional headline.
Each episode answers a different listener question — wartime conviction, institutional seed in Poland, and regional capital in Romania.
What does it take to raise and deploy a VC fund when your market is at war?
Andrew Zinchuk · ZAS Ventures
How does a Polish deep-tech fund find conviction before the rest of Europe notices?
Marcin Hejka · OTB Ventures
How do founders in Romania and SEE access venture capital that actually scales with them?
Bogdan Iordache · Underline Ventures
CEE is discussed like one ecosystem. It isn't. The interesting part is in the differences — who shows up, what they back, and how each market is maturing on its own terms.
Every conversation, newest first. Pick a country on the map above and this table follows — later it can expand to fund, stage and sector.
No interview here yet. Explore another market or suggest a guest.
VC in the CEE does not compete on volume. The work is connecting primary-source investor conversations to concise market context: what changed, why it matters, and which earlier conversation explains it.