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Alex Marciuc - 7 Aug 2025

Faster Compliance, Fewer Errors: A RegTech Framework for Reporting Automation

Regulatory reporting has become one of the most resource-intensive functions in compliance, and one of the least scalable when managed through legacy processes. Across our work with RegTech teams, we consistently see the same challenge surface: compliance leaders are being asked to do more, faster, and with greater precision, but often without the tools or time to fundamentally rethink their approach.

Technology Featured AI
Tudor Iordache - 1 Aug 2025

Why Fintech Scaleups Start with AI PoCs, Not Full Platform Rebuilds

Fintech scaleups face a familiar tension: how to innovate at speed without disrupting stability. Artificial intelligence offers compelling opportunities to unlock smarter risk scoring, faster operations, and sharper personalization. But for firms operating with lean teams and tight margins, a full-platform overhaul can feel both risky and resource-intensive.

Fintech Featured AI
Stefan Sarbu - 21 Jul 2025

The New Business Model Playbook for First-Time Founders

The term “business model” has evolved far beyond its traditional definition as a static framework for generating revenue. For modern startups, especially those in fintech and digital services, it now denotes a dynamic architecture, one that captures value creation, data flows, and stakeholder incentives in real-time. This shift reflects how companies must adapt not only to market volatility but also to evolving regulatory environments and continuous feedback loops.

Featured Startup
Ilie Ghiciuc - 10 Jul 2025

AI Agents Promise Scale, But Most Teams Will Miss The Mark

Gartner names it 2025’s top AI trend, but only teams with scope, governance, and value metrics will succeed. Picture an invoice-scanning bot that doesn’t just flag anomalies—it renegotiates payment terms, logs the change in SAP and emails the supplier before finance gets its first coffee. That leap from “copilot” to fully autonomous colleague is what Gartner dubs Agentic AI, the top strategic technology trend for 2025.

Technology Trending Featured
Raluca Lupasteanu - 1 Jul 2025

Build The Right First Version By Mastering MVP Scoping

Launching a digital product without a tight scope is like setting sail with no charts or weather reports. A minimum viable product (MVP) is the leanest version of your solution that still generates real user learning, revenue, or both. Yet, the value of an MVP drops quickly if its boundaries are unclear. A structured scoping process places guardrails around cost, time, and expectations so founders avoid two classic dangers: over-engineering early features and discovering late that budget or runway is gone.

Idea to MVP Featured Startup
Alex Marciuc - 19 Jun 2025

Deciding What Not to Build – and When to Rescope or Freeze

Products rarely slow down because of bugs. More often, it’s an overloaded roadmap, features added “just in case,” tweaks nobody asked for, scope creep disguised as polish. Before anyone notices, deadlines slip, feedback loops stall, and teams lose momentum. This isn’t an edge case. It’s a pattern. Startups don’t succeed by building everything. They win by building the right things at the right time.

Featured Startup
Paula Cristea - 4 Jun 2025

Why Execution Is the New Differentiator in Private Equity’s Tech Deals

In 2025, access to capital is table stakes. What distinguishes private equity sponsors now is execution. With deal volume returning and transaction size trending upward, value creation depends less on financial engineering and more on the ability to deliver results. Traditional levers such as cost reduction, integration, and restructuring have hit their limits, particularly in technology sectors marked by fast-moving innovation and systemic complexity. Execution has become the decisive edge. Strategy still matters, but it's the speed and precision of implementation that define outcomes.

Trending Featured
Stefan Sarbu - 27 May 2025

Market Validation Tactics for Pre-Seed and Seed Tech Startups

Every startup begins with a hypothesis: there’s a real problem, and you have the right solution. But you haven't validated anything until someone outside your team cares enough to engage—sign up, pay, or even just respond. Still, this step often gets overlooked. Early-stage founders frequently jump straight into building, pitching, or scaling, driven by momentum or pressure to show progress. Validation becomes an afterthought—something to deal with once there’s a product or a few users.

Idea to MVP Featured Startup
Tudor Iordache - 22 May 2025

How Lean Startups Use Synthetic Data to Build Smarter AI Faster

For many early-stage startups, launching an AI-powered product means facing two immediate hurdles—insufficient real-world data and limited bandwidth to collect, label, and secure it. As user acquisition ramps up slowly, the lack of usable data can delay product iteration and proof of concept.

Idea to MVP Featured Startup AI
Tudor Iordache - 12 May 2025

Foundation Models Are Redefining Lean Prototyping for Tech Startups

Startups are under pressure to move fast and prove value early. Investors want to see working demos before they commit. Users expect polished experiences even in beta. And founders—often working with lean teams and tight budgets—need to bridge the gap between idea and execution without burning through their runway. This is where foundation models come in. These large-scale AI systems, pre-trained on diverse data and capable of handling language, image, and multimodal tasks, dramatically lower the technical barriers to building a prototype.

Technology Idea to MVP Featured Startup