Led by Accel, this monumental round cements Twenty as the definitive offensive cyber company industrializing capabilities for the United States and its allies.
ARLINGTON, Va., June 17, 2026 — Twenty, America’s first VC-backed cyber warfare startup, today announced a $100 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Friends & Family Capital, Point72 Ventures, and Caffeinated Capital, bringing Twenty’s total funding to $138 million.
Founded in 2024, Twenty is industrializing offensive cyber warfare for the United States and its allies. The company builds AI-enabled, end-to-end systems for the U.S. military and Intelligence Community, giving warfighters the speed and scale required to deter and defeat adversaries in cyberspace. Twenty’s systems are designed to keep human judgment at the center, pairing advanced AI and automation with rigorous evaluation, controlled deployment, and mission alignment.
This round follows unprecedented demand for offensive cyber capabilities built at commercial speed. The White House has brought renewed leadership to offensive cyber, calling for the United States to use the full suite of offensive cyber operations to disrupt adversary networks and raise the costs of aggression on those who attack American interests.
“America is under sustained cyber attack, and our adversaries have learned—correctly—that those attacks rarely carry consequences,” said Joe Lin, Co-founder and CEO of Twenty. “Twenty exists to change that. We are building the industrial base for American cyber power: the AI-enabled capabilities our warfighters need to disrupt threats at their origin. This round is extraordinary validation from some of the world’s foremost investors, and we are pouring this funding directly into research and engineering.”
“As a country, we need to invest more into cyber capabilities to protect our national security. We have under invested over an extended period,” said Jonathan Turner, Partner at Accel. “Investing into the best cyber capabilities will create one of the strongest and most cost effective deterrents we can build. Accel is proud to lead this round and help set the standard for investing in the capabilities the country needs most. Twenty is the clear leader in this market: the team is unmatched, the mission is urgent and timely, and the company has reached operational relevance at a pace rarely seen in defense technology.”
“For fifteen years we have backed founders who challenge the limits of what is possible. Twenty’s speed from founding to operational relevance is in a class of its own,” said Colin Anderson, Founding Partner at Friends & Family Capital and former CFO at Palantir. “The company has moved with commercial urgency in one of the government’s most sensitive and consequential mission areas, which is extraordinarily difficult to do. Having first backed Joe and team nearly a decade ago, we are proud to partner with them once again as Twenty builds capabilities that are critical to America’s security.”
Twenty’s Series B follows prior rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Tim Junio, Co-founder and CEO of Expanse (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $1.25B in 2020), with early backing from investors including General Catalyst and In-Q-Tel.
About Twenty
Twenty is America’s first VC-backed cyber warfare startup. Founded in 2024, Twenty is industrializing offensive cyber warfare for the United States and its allies. The company builds AI-enabled, end-to-end systems for the U.S. military and Intelligence Community, giving warfighters the speed and scale required to impose costs on adversaries in cyberspace. Twenty’s systems are designed to keep human judgment at the center, pairing advanced AI and automation with rigorous evaluation, controlled deployment, and mission alignment.
Funding accelerates NeuralTrust’s platform for identifying, securing, and scaling the AI agents running across the enterprise.
NEW YORK, June 17, 2026 — NeuralTrust, the platform to secure AI agents, today announced a $20 million seed round, the largest cybersecurity seed financing raised by an EU company to date. The round will fund engineering, deepening the integration across NeuralTrust’s products, and expansion across the European market, as enterprises move autonomous AI systems into production.
NeuralTrust Founders: Víctor García (CTO), Joan Vendrell (CEO) and Alejandro Domingo (COO)
The round was led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain’s State Research Agency (AEI).
The investment arrives as AI agents move from experimentation to core enterprise infrastructure, with governance failing to keep pace. Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents due to governance gaps identified only after production incidents occur. The risk scales fast: Fortune 500 companies are projected to operate more than 150,000 agents each by 2028, yet only 13% of firms feel prepared to manage them.
Enterprise AI agents don’t run in one place. They span platforms and endpoints, creating security fragmentation that grows harder to manage with every new deployment. NeuralTrust delivers the enforcement layer that spans all of them.
Three products make this work. TrustGate, an agent gateway that brokers every LLM, MCP, and tool call, becoming the single enforcement point through which all agent traffic flows. TrustGuard, a runtime security engine, which detects and stops threats across every platform and endpoint where agents operate, regardless of how they were built or deployed. And TrustLens, a posture management layer, to identify every agent in the enterprise and tracks how it behaves inside and outside the security perimeter.
NeuralTrust’s customers include AirEuropa, Abanca, Iberia, and Banc Sabadell, alongside other global banks, airlines, energy companies, and government agencies. 92% report annual revenues above $1B, with 80% based in Europe and 20% international.
Independent analysts recognize NeuralTrust as a category leader across the emerging AI security landscape. Gartner has named the company a Representative Vendor in two Market Guides, KuppingerCole a Leader in its 2025 Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense, and MarketsandMarkets a Leader in its 2026 Agentic AI Security Quadrant.
“AI agents are now part of enterprise operations, but the controls protecting them are still catching up,” said Joan Vendrell, Co-Founder and CEO of NeuralTrust. “This round allows us to keep building the infrastructure layer that makes AI adoption measurable, governable, and safe.”
About NeuralTrust
NeuralTrust is the leading platform for securing and scaling AI Agents. Recognized by Gartner, NeuralTrust helps enterprises identify, secure, and govern all the AI agents running in the enterprise. Learn more at neuraltrust.ai.
— Series C supported by premier syndicate including co-leads Ascenta Capital and Janus Henderson Investors with significant participation from Deep Track plus existing investors —
— Evan Rachlin, M.D., Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ascenta Capital, joins the Board of Directors —
WATERTOWN, Mass., June 17, 2026 — Triveni Bio Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing novel antibody treatments for immunological and inflammatory (I&I) disorders, today announced a $65 million Series C financing round to support pipeline expansion and continued corporate growth. The round was co-led by new investors Ascenta Capital and Janus Henderson Investors, with significant participation from Deep Track Capital, alongside additional existing investors.
Proceeds from this financing will allow the company to extend the scope and rigor of clinical development of TRIV-573, including an atopic dermatitis Phase 2 clinical proof-of-concept study expected to initiate later this year. TRIV-573 is a half-life extended, next-generation bispecific engineered to address the underlying cause of atopic dermatitis by simultaneously inhibiting KLK5/7—validated as central drivers of skin barrier dysfunction—and the Th2 cytokine IL-13.
“This financing enables us to disrupt the status quo in atopic dermatitis, addressing not just inflammation, but the underlying dysfunction of the skin barrier, positioning Triveni to bring a long-overdue option to a population of patients still in need of relief,” said Vishal Patel, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Triveni Bio. “We have built a highly differentiated pipeline that combines novel biology with established anti-inflammatory mechanisms. In addition to a thorough investigation of TRIV-573 in atopic dermatitis, this funding allows us to explore kallikrein 5/7 biology in other related barrier disorders.”
The raise comes weeks after the initiation of first-in-human clinical studies with TRIV-573. In conjunction with the financing, industry veteran Evan Rachlin, M.D., Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ascenta Capital, has joined the Triveni Bio Board of Directors.
“Triveni Bio has rapidly and efficiently advanced novel programs to address significant gaps in the existing standard-of-care,” said Evan Rachlin, M.D. “The speed with which the team has progressed two assets into the clinic—less than one year apart—is a testament to their operational execution. I am thrilled to join the Board of Directors at this exciting inflection point for the company.”
This momentum comes alongside recognition for Triveni’s leadership with Chief Executive Officer Vishal Patel, Ph.D., recently named a Finalist for the Ernst & Young (EY) Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 award. The nomination highlights Vishal’s leadership and excellence in driving programs from concept to clinical trial with speed and rigor.
About TRIV-509 Triveni’s lead program, TRIV-509 (anti-kallikreins 5 & 7), is a half-life extended monoclonal antibody positioned for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD). Through its mechanism of protease inhibition, TRIV-509 has demonstrated the ability to directly impact each key pillar of AD – barrier dysfunction, inflammation, and itch. TRIV-509 is the subject of an ongoing Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial with data expected end of 2026.
About TRIV-573 TRIV-573 is a half-life extended, second-generation bispecific antibody that combines KLK5/7 inhibition with a highly potent anti-IL-13 mechanism. Triveni plans to initiate a proof-of-concept trial in AD later this year.
About Triveni Bio Triveni Bio is a biotechnology company at the forefront of novel antibody-based therapies for immunological and inflammatory disorders. Using a genetics-informed, precision medicine approach, the company seeks to establish proof-of-concept early in the drug development process by leveraging deep insights into genetic and mechanistic biology. To learn more, visit www.triveni.bio.
WARSAW, June 17, 2026 — The Digital Poland Foundation published the 5th edition of the Digital Champions CEE 2026 report. The ranking of the 100 most valuable technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe reveals a combined market capitalisation of USD 127.9 billion — a robust year-on-year growth of 9.36%. Yet the headline figure only tells part of the story: had all companies that have since relocated or been acquired remained in the ranking, the total value would likely exceed USD 170 billion. The fifth edition of the report maps not only how the region has grown, but also where its most valuable assets have gone — and why.
Digital Champions CEE Ranking
Top 100 tech companies valued at USD 127.9 billion — and the USD 170 billion reality behind them
At the end of 2025, the 100 largest technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe achieved a combined market capitalisation of USD 127.9 billion, narrowing the gap to the region’s 2021 peak and confirming the continued resilience of the regional digital economy. The strongest growth came from the region’s largest players — the so-called “Digital Phoenixes” valued above USD 1 billion — whose combined valuation increased by 14.58% year-on-year to USD 101.05 billion.
However, the report highlights that official data significantly understates the true scale of value created by the region’s innovators. Many leading firms originating from the CEE region — such as ElevenLabs, Grammarly, ICEYE, Rimac, and Avast — have relocated their headquarters to the United States or the United Kingdom to raise capital or have been acquired by multinational corporations, removing them from the ranking. According to the authors of the report, if these mature companies still met the geographic criteria of the index, the total value of the top 100 technology companies from the CEE region would already exceed USD 170 billion.
“When the inaugural Digital Champions CEE ranking was launched, the region was framed as a ‘Digital Phoenix’ — a symbol of ambitious transformation emerging from post-communist economies. Five editions later, the trajectory remains strong, but the narrative has evolved. Against a backdrop of intensified global headwinds, companies across Central and Eastern Europe have shifted from rapid acceleration to more disciplined, resilient growth. This maturation has sharpened strategic focus: for many organisations, it has unlocked new avenues for expansion and innovation; for others, it has introduced heightened competitive pressure and a more complex, unpredictable operating environment,” said Radzym Wójcik, Counsel at Baker McKenzie.
Poland leads while the Baltics dominate by intensity
Poland remains the region’s largest technology ecosystem in absolute terms, accounting for USD 47.39 billion — or 37.05% — of the total regional value, with 42 companies in the Top 100 ranking. It is also the only market showing strength across all company maturity levels, from emerging scaleups to multi-billion-dollar champions.
The Baltic states, however, continue to outperform the region when measured by capitalisation intensity per capita. Estonia achieved the highest score in the ranking, significantly ahead of all other countries, while Lithuania recorded a 123.97% increase in total capitalisation since 2021. Latvia emerged as the fastest climber by intensity growth over the five-year period.
Together, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Czechia now account for nearly 78% of the region’s total technology value. Croatia delivered the strongest long-term growth in percentage terms, with ecosystem value increasing by 170.7% since 2021, while Bulgaria nearly doubled its market capitalisation over the same period.
Deeptech and defence-related innovation reshape the ecosystem
While e-commerce and marketplace platforms remain the region’s largest value category, accounting for more than 36% of total capitalisation, the report identifies a major structural shift toward deeptech, space technology, healthtech, and dual-use innovation.
The “other” category — which includes deeptech and space tech companies — recorded the strongest year-on-year growth in the entire ranking, surging 87.59%. New high-value entrants such as EnduroSat and Creotech Instruments reflect increasing investor appetite for companies addressing defence, logistics, infrastructure, and strategic resilience.
“The composition of the ranking is also evolving. E-commerce, SaaS and fintech remain the backbone of CEE’s digital economy, but the list now points to a broader and more strategic technology base: robotics, space and Earth observation, cybersecurity, AI-native software, digital health, sovereign cloud and other infrastructure-oriented businesses. This shift shows that CEE is moving beyond consumer platforms and software scale-ups toward technologies directly linked to Europe’s productivity, security, resilience and digital sovereignty,” said Wojciech Świercz, Partner at Arthur D. Little.
Record VC exits confirm ecosystem maturity
The report also documents record levels of venture capital-backed exits across the region. Following 82 exits in 2024 — the highest number ever recorded — the ecosystem sustained momentum with 81 exits in 2025.
This marks a dramatic increase compared with just 31 exits in 2015 and confirms that Central and Eastern Europe has evolved from an emerging startup market into a mature ecosystem capable of producing a consistent pipeline of acquisition-ready and IPO-ready companies.
Venture capital investment across the region reached EUR 2.71 billion in 2025. However, the report notes that this figure includes approximately EUR 730 million in funding rounds raised by companies that had already relocated their headquarters outside the region. Those excluded rounds included major transactions involving ElevenLabs, ICEYE, Tachyum, and MaintainX.
The relocation dilemma: nearly half of CEE value has left the region
One of the report’s central conclusions concerns the increasing relocation of the region’s most successful technology companies to the United States and the United Kingdom.
According to data cited in the report, 48% of CEE scaleups have moved their headquarters abroad, primarily to access larger pools of growth capital. The United States attracts 56% of relocating companies, while the United Kingdom alone accounts for nearly one-quarter of all relocations. The report warns that this trend presents a broader strategic challenge for Europe’s competitiveness.
“Europe is increasingly being reduced to a highly skilled research and development layer for the American technology sector. Ideas are incubated locally, products are built locally, but the companies are ultimately financed, scaled, and frequently acquired by US capital,” said Piotr Mieczkowski, Managing director at Digital Poland Foundation.
Ukraine represents the most acute example of this dynamic. While the number of Ukrainian companies formally included in the ranking has declined sharply since 2021, many continue to maintain engineering and R&D operations within Ukraine despite relocating corporate headquarters abroad to secure international financing and ensure business continuity.
A new generation of CEE champions emerging
The report also reveals accelerating generational change within the regional ecosystem. Companies founded between 2017 and 2021 recorded the fastest valuation growth of any cohort, increasing their collective value by 189.09% since the first edition of the ranking.
At the same time, a core group of 49 companies has remained in the Top 100 throughout all five editions of the report, demonstrating the growing stability and resilience of the region’s leading technology players.
“Innovation today is the foundation of competitiveness, resilience and technological sovereignty for Poland and Europe. This is why BGK actively engages in building the innovation financing ecosystem through the Innovate Poland initiative, including the Future Tech Poland fund, as well as through the BGK Vinci investment fund. We also invest directly in funds supporting modern technological infrastructure. The Digital Champions CEE 2026 report demonstrates that our region possesses the talent, ambition and entrepreneurial strength which — with the right support — can translate into the growth of future European and global technology leaders,” said Jarosław Dąbrowski, Member of the Management Board at Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego.
About the report
Digital Champions CEE 2026 is the fifth edition of the annual ranking of the 100 most valuable technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe. The report was first presented to the public at the Private Equity Insights Poland & CEE 2026 conference in Warsaw. The report covers both publicly listed and privately held companies across the broader CEE region, including the Baltic states and non-EU countries such as Serbia and Albania, while excluding Russia, Belarus, and Austria. The report is based on data from leading transaction monitoring platforms such as CB Insights, Crunchbase, Dealroom, PitchBook, Tracxn, PitchBook and Preqin, and is the result of collaboration with selected VC/PE funds and associations in the CEE region. The report is available to download free of charge from the Digital Poland foundation’s website. Arthur D. Little and Poland’s Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego are strategic partners of the report; Baker McKenzie, MCI Capital and PFR Ventures are partners.
VARŠAVA, 17. června 2026 — Nadace Digital Poland zveřejnila páté vydání zprávy Digital Champions CEE 2026. Žebříček 100 nejhodnotnějších technologických společností ve střední a východní Evropě ukazuje, že jejich souhrnná tržní kapitalizace dosahuje 127,9 miliardy USD, což představuje výrazný meziroční nárůst o 9,36 %. Tento údaj ale zachycuje jen část skutečného obrazu: kdyby v žebříčku zůstaly všechny společnosti, které mezitím přesunuly své sídlo mimo region nebo byly převzaty, celková hodnota by pravděpodobně přesáhla 170 miliard USD. Páté vydání zprávy mapuje nejen to, jak region rostl, ale také to, kam se přesunula jeho nejcennější aktiva – a proč.
Digital Champions CEE Ranking
100 nejhodnotnějších technologických firemv hodnotě 127,9 miliardy USD – ve skutečnosti je to ale více než 170 miliard USD
Na konci roku 2025 dosáhlo 100 největších technologických společností ve střední a východní Evropě celkové tržní kapitalizace 127,9 miliardy USD, čímž se region opět přiblížil svému maximu z roku 2021 a potvrdila se přetrvávající odolnost regionální digitální ekonomiky. Největší růst zaznamenali největší hráči v regionu – takzvaní „digitální fénixové“s hodnotou nad 1 miliardu USD – jejichž celková hodnota se meziročně zvýšila o 14,58 % na 101,05 miliardy USD.
Zpráva však zdůrazňuje, že oficiální údaje značně podhodnocují skutečný objem hodnoty, kterou v regionu vytvářejí inovátoři. Mnoho předních firem pocházejících z regionu střední a východní Evropy – například ElevenLabs, Grammarly, ICEYE, Rimac a Avast – přesunulo svá sídla do Spojených států nebo Spojeného království, aby získaly přístup ke kapitálu, nebo byly převzaty nadnárodními společnostmi, což je z žebříčku vyřadilo. Podle autorů zprávy, pokud by tyto vyspělé společnosti stále splňovaly geografická kritéria indexu, celková hodnota 100 nejhodnotnějších technologických společností z regionu střední a východní Evropy by již přesáhla 170 miliard USD.
„Když byl vyhlášen první ročník žebříčku Digital Champions CEE, byl tento region označován za ‚digitálního fénixe’ – symbol ambiciózní transformace, která vzešla z postkomunistických ekonomik. Po pěti vydáních zůstává směr vývoje pozitivní, ale celý příběh se proměňuje. V prostředí sílících globálních tlaků přešly společnosti ve střední a východní Evropě od rychlé expanze k disciplinovanějšímu a odolnějšímu růstu. Tato vyspělost zostřila strategické zaměření: mnoha organizacím otevřela nové možnosti pro expanzi a inovace, jiným přinesla zvýšený konkurenční tlak a složitější a nepředvídatelnější provozní prostředí,” řekl Radzym Wójcik, counsel společnosti Baker McKenzie.
Polsko vede v absolutní hodnotě, Pobaltí v přepočtu na obyvatele
Polsko zůstává největším technologickým ekosystémem v regionu v absolutním vyjádření, na který připadá 47,39 miliardy USD, tj. 37,05 % celkové hodnoty regionu, a v žebříčku Top 100 se nachází 42 společností. Je to také jediný trh, který vykazuje sílu na všech úrovních vyspělosti společností, od rozvíjejících se scaleupů až po multimiliardové šampiony.
Pobaltské státy však region nadále překonávají v kapitalizaci technologických firem v přepočtu na obyvatele. Nejvýše se v tomto srovnání umístilo Estonsko, které výrazně předstihlo všechny ostatní země, zatímco Litva zaznamenala od roku 2021 nárůst celkové kapitalizace o 123,97 %. Lotyšsko vykázalo v pětiletém období nejrychlejší růst tohoto ukazatele.
Polsko, Estonsko, Litva a Česko nyní společně představují téměř 78 % celkové hodnoty technologického sektoru v regionu. Dlouhodobě nejsilnějšího růstu v procentním vyjádření dosáhlo Chorvatsko, kde se hodnota ekosystému od roku 2021 zvýšila o 170,7 %, zatímco Bulharsko za stejné období téměř zdvojnásobilo svou tržní kapitalizaci.
Deeptech a inovace v oblasti obrany mění ekosystém
Zatímco e-commerce a tržní platformy zůstávají kategorií s nejvyšší hodnotou v regionu a tvoří více než 36 % celkové kapitalizace, zpráva poukazuje na výrazný strukturální posun směrem k deeptech, vesmírným technologiím, zdravotnickým technologiím a inovacím dvojího užití.
Kategorie „ostatní“, do níž spadají mimo jiné deeptech a vesmírné technologické společnosti, zaznamenala nejsilnější meziroční nárůst v celém žebříčku, a to o 87,59 %. Mezi nové vysoce hodnotné společnosti v žebříčku patří například EnduroSat a Creotech Instruments, které odrážejí rostoucí zájem investorů o společnosti zaměřené na oblast obrany, logistiky, infrastruktury a strategické odolnosti.
„Složení žebříčku se také vyvíjí. E-commerce, SaaS a fintech zůstávají páteří digitální ekonomiky střední a východní Evropy, ale současné složení žebříčku ukazuje širší a strategičtější technologickou základnu: robotika, pozorování vesmíru a Země, kybernetická bezpečnost, software s umělou inteligencí, digitální zdraví, suverénní cloudová řešení a další podniky zaměřené na infrastrukturu. Tento posun ukazuje, že střední a východní Evropa se přesouvá od spotřebitelských platforem a softwarových scaleupů k technologiím přímo spojeným s produktivitou, bezpečností, odolností a digitální suverenitou Evropy,” uvedl Wojciech Świercz, partner společnosti Arthur D. Little.
Rekordní počet exitů potvrzuje vyspělost ekosystému
Zpráva rovněž uvádí rekordní počet exitů firem financovaných rizikovým kapitálem v celém regionu. Po 82 exitech v roce 2024, což je nejvyšší počet, jaký byl kdy zaznamenán, si ekosystém udržel dynamiku i s 81 exity v roce 2025.
To představuje dramatický nárůst oproti pouhým 31 exitům v roce 2015 a potvrzuje, že střední a východní Evropa se z rozvíjejícího se trhu startupů vyvinula ve vyspělý ekosystém, který dokáže soustavně generovat firmy připravené k akvizici nebo vstupu na burzu.
Investice rizikového kapitálu v celém regionu dosáhly v roce 2025 výše 2,71 miliardy EUR. Zpráva však uvádí, že tento údaj zahrnuje přibližně 730 milionů EUR z investičních kol společností, které již přesunuly své sídlo mimo region. Mezi tato nezapočtená kola patřily významné transakce společností ElevenLabs, ICEYE, Tachyum a MaintainX.
Dilema přesunu sídel: téměř polovina hodnoty CEE opustila region
Jeden z hlavních závěrů zprávy se týká rostoucího přesunu nejúspěšnějších technologických společností v regionu do Spojených států a Spojeného království.
Podle údajů uvedených ve zprávě přesunulo své sídlo do zahraničí 48 % sledovaných firem ze střední a východní Evropy, především kvůli přístupu k větším zdrojům růstového kapitálu. Do Spojených států směřuje 56 % relokujících se společností, zatímco na samotnou Velkou Británii připadá téměř čtvrtina všech relokací. Zpráva varuje, že tento trend představuje širší strategickou výzvu pro konkurenceschopnost Evropy.
„Evropa se stále více stává vysoce kvalifikovanou výzkumnou a vývojovou základnou pro americký technologický sektor. Nápady se inkubují na místě, produkty vznikají na místě, ale firmy jsou nakonec financovány, dále rozvíjeny a často i získávány americkým kapitálem,” řekl Piotr Mieczkowski, výkonný ředitel nadace Digital Poland.
Ukrajina představuje nejpalčivější příklad této dynamiky. Zatímco počet ukrajinských společností formálně zařazených do žebříčku od roku 2021 prudce klesl, mnoho z nich nadále ponechává na Ukrajině své inženýrské kapacity a výzkum a vývoj, přestože přesunuly sídlo společnosti do zahraničí, aby si zajistily mezinárodní financování a kontinuitu podnikání.
Vzniká nová generace šampionů střední a východní Evropy
Zpráva zároveň ukazuje, že v regionálním ekosystému nastupuje nová generace technologických lídrů. Společnosti založené v letech 2017 až 2021 zaznamenaly ze všech skupin společností podle roku založení nejrychlejší růst ocenění a od prvního vydání žebříčku zvýšily své ocenění o 189,09 %.
Skupina 49 klíčových společností se zároveň udržela v první stovce ve všech pěti vydáních zprávy, což svědčí o rostoucí stabilitě a odolnosti předních technologických hráčů v regionu.
„Inovace jsou dnes pro Polsko a Evropu základem konkurenceschopnosti, odolnosti a technologické suverenity. Proto se BGK aktivně zapojuje do budování ekosystému financování inovací prostřednictvím iniciativy Innovate Poland, včetně fondu Future Tech Poland, a také prostřednictvím investičního fondu BGK Vinci. Investujeme také přímo do fondů podporujících moderní technologickou infrastrukturu. Zpráva Digital Champions CEE 2026 dokazuje, že náš region disponuje talentem, ambicemi a podnikatelskou silou, které mohou při správné podpoře vést k růstu budoucích evropských i globálních technologických lídrů,” řekl Jarosław Dąbrowski, člen představenstva Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego.
O zprávě
Digital Champions CEE 2026 je pátým ročníkem žebříčku 100 nejhodnotnějších technologických společností ve střední a východní Evropě. Zpráva byla poprvé představena veřejnosti na konferenci Private Equity Insights Poland & CEE 2026 ve Varšavě. Zpráva zahrnuje jak veřejně obchodované, tak soukromé společnosti v širším regionu střední a východní Evropy, včetně pobaltských států a zemí mimo EU, jako je Srbsko a Albánie, přičemž nezahrnuje Rusko, Bělorusko a Rakousko. Zpráva vychází z údajů předních platforem pro sledování transakcí, jako jsou CB Insights, Crunchbase, Dealroom, PitchBook, Tracxn a Preqin, a je výsledkem spolupráce s vybranými VC/PE fondy a sdruženími v regionu střední a východní Evropy. Zpráva je k dispozici ke stažení zdarma na webových stránkách nadace Digital Poland. Strategickými partnery zprávy jsou Arthur D. Little a polská Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, partnery pak Baker McKenzie, MCI Capital a PFR Ventures.
The U.S. Army estimates more than 10,000 known military facilities are hidden underground worldwide.* Today, Traysar declares an end to the subterranean blindspot for the free world
DETROIT, June 16, 2026 — With $25M in funding led by Silent Ventures, Traysar publicly launched today at the 2026 Reindustrialize Summit, introducing a new class of autonomous “subterra” platforms engineered to penetrate and secure the domain beneath the Earth’s surface.
The underground threat is accelerating on every front. In its 2023 report to Congress, the DoW acknowledged Chinese investment in underground facilities to conceal and protect all aspects of its military forces. Allied forces struggle to reach Iran’s deep nuclear bunkers. Hamas built an entire terror state underground, and penetration tunnels are breaching borders worldwide – including America’s own.
Meanwhile, the global defense industry has a vertical bias: hundreds of billions flow skyward into missiles, missile defense, drones, and counter-drone systems, while adversaries dig in building deeply buried facilities the U.S. cannot reliably strike, and cannot affordably keep disabled. The earth’s crust is the new strategic chokepoint.
“For decades, we have allowed a massive capability gap to widen beneath our feet,” said Yadin Soffer, Co-Founder and CEO of Traysar. “Our message to adversaries is clear: there is no place to hide. Traysar’s mission is to expose every subterranean threat and equip the armies of the free world to fight in this new-yet-ancient dimension.”
“Traysar is pioneering the doctrine and developing the technology required for U.S. military supremacy across the subterranean domain, a war-fighting realm steeped in history dating back to WWI, through the Vietnam Conflict, and is now quickly emerging as the defining 21st century battlefield.” said Jackson Moses, GP at Silent Ventures, whose seed investments include Saronic and Castelion.
Traysar’s engineering team, including early engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Company, is fielding autonomous platforms built for subterranean maneuver and infrastructure survivability starting with:
An excavator-class autonomous tunnel breaching and tactical exploration platform that rapidly navigates, maps, and clears contested underground networks.
A high-speed, rapid-burrowing autonomous platform that creates precision subterranean access points and delivers critical payloads beneath the surface.
The same underground domain adversaries use to shield missiles, leadership, and command infrastructure can be used by allied forces to harden bases, secure manufacturing, and preserve logistical continuity under attack. Traysar builds for both sides of that equation.
The seed round was joined by Lux Capital, Ora Global, and strategic angel investors including Steve Blank, and founders from Anduril and Erebor among others. Additional investors include NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista and Entree Capital, among others. Traysar was co-founded by Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz, and Gilad Adin.
About Traysar Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Traysar is the world’s first subterra defense tech company. Through breakthroughs in military boring and subterranean autonomous systems, Traysar transforms the Earth’s crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space – enabling a new class of strike capabilities against previously unreachable targets and rapid underground protection of critical infrastructure for the United States and its allies. Traysar is backed by Silent Ventures, Lux Capital, Ora Global, and notable angel investors including Steve Blank, founders from Anduril and Erebor, and early SpaceX engineers. For more information visit www.traysar.com / x.com/traysartech
* (According to the U.S. Army’s doctrinal manual Subterranean Operations ATP 3-21.51, 2019)
LITTLETON, Colo., June 16, 2026 — Maia, the AI-powered medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) platform purpose-built for orthopaedic practices, today announced the close of its seed financing round of $1.2 million. The round was comprised of institutional investors, physicians, and professional healthtech investors.
Maia’s flagship product, AutoCoder, integrates directly with EHR systems to read clinical and operative notes and automatically recommend CPT, ICD-10, and HCPCS codes – complete with justification for each code selection. Built specifically for the complexities of orthopaedic billing, including both E&M and surgical coding, denial appeals, and prior authorizations. Maia helps practices maximize accurate reimbursement, reduce denials, and cut administrative burden.
“Maia is delivering real value to orthopaedic groups across the country, and this round lets us move even faster – more products, a stronger team, and investors who help us amplify our impact,” said Zach Ruhl, Co-Founder and CEO of Maia.
Orthopaedic practices face a uniquely difficult coding environment, with more than 11,000 billing codes and millions of billing rules. Industry research indicates practices leave revenue on the table, up to 10% by some measures, through miscoding and incomplete documentation. Maia’s approach, purpose-built models fine-tuned for orthopaedics rather than generic coding tools, is designed to close that gap.
The new capital will fund expansion of Maia’s engineering and machine learning team to advance model precision and architectural efficiency, alongside increased investment to support a growing customer base and pipeline.
“The core challenge in medical coding is making language models reliable enough to trust. Our work at Maia combines neural reasoning, clinical rules, and expert feedback to ground every code,” said Anson Antony, Maia’s head of AI.
Maia currently integrates with leading EHR platforms including athenahealth and eClinicalWorks, with additional integrations on its roadmap. The company’s product roadmap also includes prior authorization, denial appeal automation, AI documentation support, and an AI scribe.
Maia is a purpose-built AI-powered medical coding and RCM platform for orthopaedic practices. By combining deep orthopaedic domain expertise with fine-tuned medical language models, Maia delivers purpose-built coding and reimbursement solutions that help practices improve accuracy, reduce denials, and streamline operations. Learn more at usemaia.com.
Organization Will Offer Trump Account Contribution for Foster Children of Employees
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2026 — The Investment Company Institute (ICI) today announced an expansion of its corporate commitment to early-childhood savings. After ICI previously rolled out a $1,000 matching contribution for the Trump Accounts of children born to employees, it is now expanding on this effort to include a contribution to the accounts of children being fostered by ICI staff. The announcement follows First Lady Melania Trump’s work with the Treasury Department and state governors to ensure that foster children are enrolled in Trump accounts.
“Every child in America deserves a head start on their financial journey, and that includes the children in our nation’s foster care system,” said Eric J. Pan, ICI President and CEO. “We applaud the First Lady’s leadership in breaking down barriers so that foster children can benefit from compound growth and matching contributions. ICI is proud to establish a contribution for foster children under the care of ICI employees, so they too can move towards a secure financial future.”
For more details on ICI’s support for Trump Accounts, and our staff contribution initiatives, visit www.ici.org.
Funding round and NEDO Deep Tech Startup Support Program selection will support development and clinical adoption of DIOS‑101, an iPS cell‑derived co‑culture designed to reduce the burden of IVF treatment.
TOKYO, June 16, 2026 — Dioseve Inc. (“Dioseve”), a Tokyo-based fertility biotech company developing iPS cell-derived ovarian support technologies for in vitro oocyte maturation to reduce the physical and emotional burden of IVF, today announced the completion of an extended Series A round totaling over JPY 1.0 billion (around USD 7 million) via a third-party allotment of new shares. The financing brings the company’s cumulative equity funding to JPY 2.5 billion.
Archetype Ventures served as lead investor, with continued participation from DG Daiwa Ventures and Mirai Door (Asuka Innovation Fund). New investors D4V, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., and Pangaea Ventures also joined the round.
In addition, Dioseve has been selected for the 8th cohort of the NEDO Deep Tech Startup Support Program (DTSU), a Japanese government‑backed initiative that supports early-stage companies developing high‑risk, high‑impact technologies. When combined with this non-dilutive support, the company’s total funding to date reaches JPY 2.9 billion (around USD 20 million).
NEDO is Japan’s primary public research and development funding agency under METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
The funds raised in this round will be used primarily to advance the development and clinical translation of ReproNest, building out manufacturing and quality management infrastructure, and expanding regulatory and business development activities.
“IVF remains physically, emotionally, and financially demanding for many patients,” said Kazuma Kishida, CEO of Dioseve. “With this new funding and support from NEDO, we plan to accelerate the development of our iPS cell‑derived co‑culture technology, with the goal of making IVF treatment less burdensome and more accessible in everyday clinical practice.”
About ReproNest
Dioseve is a reproductive medicine company focused on the development of ReproNest, a co-culture product candidate that uses iPS cell-derived ovarian support cell-like cells to support oocyte maturation ex vivo. Unlike cell therapies, ReproNest is designed for use within the IVF process and is not administered directly to patients.
Conventional IVF protocols typically require around 10 days of hormonal stimulation, repeated clinic visits, self-administered injections, and substantial medication costs, all of which place significant physical and emotional demands on patients. ReproNest is intended to address these challenges by enabling minimal stimulation approaches combined with in vitro oocyte maturation (IVM), reducing the overall treatment burden.
Preclinical data to date suggest that ReproNest may improve oocyte maturation under experimental conditions compared with standard IVM culture systems. Dioseve is currently focused on validating its manufacturing processes, quality standards, and reproducibility ahead of clinical translation.
Looking ahead, the company sees additional applications in fertility preservation, including oocyte cryopreservation and pre-treatment fertility preservation for oncology patients. Ultimately, the company aims to contribute to extending women’s reproductive options by making in vitro oocyte maturation a more practical part of routine care.
Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi Joins as Scientific Advisor
Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi of the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine has joined Dioseve as Scientific Advisor.
A globally recognized pioneer in reproductive biology, Professor Hayashi has published numerous landmark findings in germ cell research using iPS cells. He was named to Nature’s “Nature’s 10” in 2023 and TIME magazine’s “TIME100” in 2024. His involvement is expected to deepen Dioseve’s scientific foundation and accelerate progress toward new treatment options in assisted reproductive medicine.
About Dioseve Inc.
Dioseve Inc. is a Tokyo-based fertility biotech startup developing iPS cell-derived co-culture technologies aimed at improving outcomes in assisted reproduction. The company’s lead program, ReproNest, aims to improve in vitro oocyte maturation and reduce the burden associated with conventional IVF treatment.
Headquarters: Shin-Kiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan CEO: Kazuma Kishida Business Areas: Research, development, and manufacturing of assisted reproductive medicine products utilizing iPS cell differentiation technology Website: https://dioseve.com/
The information contained in this release is current as of the date of publication.
