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PwC Scale CEE
Scale CEE supports
startups in Central Eastern Europe
Scale CEE supports
startups in Central Eastern Europe
The Scale CEE Programme enhances startups' go-to-market strategies, facilitating their expansion into additional European markets and supporting their fundraising efforts. We foster communication and collaboration by offering an ecosystem platform for startups, corporates, and investors.
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Discover our Scale: Defence & Resilience Tech Participants
- Jobful
- Gyfted
- Nettle.ai
- Hop.City
- MELP
- 1Security
- Mentiway
- Zonifero
- Gekko Photonics
Jobful
Jobful is a developer of a recruitment platform focused on gamification and psychometric testing to empower young professionals. The platform prioritizes personal growth, allowing candidates to create profiles based on tested skills, enabling job seekers to find tailored job matches.
Gyfted
Gyfted offers SaaS platforms for remote hiring, using psychometrics and AI to assess candidates' personality, abilities, preferences, and motivations. These tools help optimize hiring, save time, and support career transitions.
Nettle.ai
Nettle.ai is a company focused on developing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance e-commerce businesses. Their platform helps automate and streamline customer care, augment sales and marketing, and enrich communications, enabling enterprises to provide better customer experiences and build brand loyalty.
Hop.City
Hop.City is building large-scale green mobility solutions for last-mile and corporate mobility companies offering e-bike and e-moped services with SaaS management system and battery charging infrastructure. The platform aims to provide a sustainable and efficient solution for urban transportation.
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MELP
MELP is a digital platform for managing employee well-being, offering solutions for benefits management, engagement, and loyalty. It provides personalized benefits through a marketplace and covers areas such as Medicine and Pharmacy, Employee Benefits, Lifestyle & Longevity, and Protection & Financing.
1Security
1Security is a cybersecurity company that enhances digital asset protection through automated solutions. The platform manages permissions, identifies sensitive data, and ensures secure AI usage with real-time alerts, strengthening an organization's security posture.
Mentiway
Mentiway helps big companies easily launch, manage, and track mentoring programmes. We assist mentoring organizers in saving time, scaling and standardizing their programmes, supporting them with monitoring and data-driven decision-making.
Zonifero
Zonifero is a leading Tenant Experience and Smart Building platform for commercial real estate combined with workplace management system for companies working in hybrid mode. Our goal is to create an open Building API platform, enabling a proptech revolution similar to how PSD2 fueled fintech.
Gekko Photonics
Gekko Photonics, a deep-tech company, that specializes in optical diagnostics of chemicals. Their core product, Spectrally, optimizes chemical production through real-time monitoring, helping producers cut costs related to energy, HR, substrate purchases, and waste reduction.
Discover our Scale: Defence & Resilience Tech Participants
- Pegasus Aerospace
- Skypuzzler
- LetsData
- SATIM
- Orbotix
- Aeteos
- CryptoNext
- PERIPHERAL
- Trout Software
- Hozint
- Butterfly Decisions
- MON5
- SVP
- HyperAxes
- ADA BW
- Auxsys
- FiveD
- Orbint
- Alpha Affinity
Pegasus Aerospace
Pegasus Aerospace develops a hybrid aerial system that combines controllable solar balloons, UAVs, AI and non‑GNSS navigation for long‑range, low‑cost and resilient operations. The platform supports deep‑strike drone delivery, ISR, decoy missions and wide‑area sensing with minimal logistics.
Skypuzzler
Skypuzzler enables safe, scalable multi‑UAS operations by providing a digital airspace coordination layer. Its technology allows multiple drones and operators to work in the same airspace in real time, supporting coordinated ISR, security and disaster‑response missions.
LetsData
LetsData is an AI radar for detecting early‑stage information operations across social and digital media. The platform delivers verified, prioritised alerts and decision‑ready intelligence for defence, cyber command and StratCom teams.
SATIM
SATIM provides OREC, an AI engine that turns SAR imagery from satellites, aircraft and UAVs into machine‑readable intelligence. It detects, classifies, tracks and attributes objects automatically across any SAR platform and deployment environment.
Orbotix
Orbotix builds autonomous unmanned systems for defence and security. The company develops both autonomy software and UAV hardware, enabling drone teams to execute complex missions efficiently, at scale and in contested electromagnetic environments.
Aeteos
Aeteos develops Percipion, a fully sovereign symbolic‑AI platform that transforms sensitive text into real‑time, explainable threat intelligence. Built for defense, law enforcement and critical infrastructure, the system offers high‑precision cognitive analysis without cloud exposure or black‑box risks.
CryptoNext
CryptoNext develops software solutions that help organizations migrate securely into the post‑quantum era. The platform enables quantum‑safe and crypto‑agile operations by automating cryptographic discovery, remediation and policy management across products and infrastructures.
PERIPHERAL
PERIPHERAL develops SAFER, a patented visual‑guidance device that transforms essential information into intuitive light signals, reducing cognitive load for soldiers, firefighters and emergency responders. The system delivers real‑time orientation and alerts without requiring screens or verbal communication.
Trout Software
Trout Software provides an on‑premise, plug‑and‑play solution that transforms any existing LAN into a full Zero Trust Architecture without downtime, rewiring or agents. The system secures military bases, critical infrastructure and industrial networks where operations can never stop.
Hozint
Hozint provides near real‑time situational‑awareness alerts on physical security and business‑continuity threats. The platform helps organisations detect and assess risks such as conflicts, terrorism, crime, natural disasters and critical‑infrastructure disruptions.
Butterfly Decisions
Butterfly Decisions is an AI‑assisted decision‑making platform that structures complex strategic processes. By combining AI, epistemic algorithms and collaborative tools, it helps organizations turn fragmented information and expert inputs into transparent, evidence‑based decisions.
MON5
MON5 protects industrial plants and critical infrastructure from OT and IoT cyberattacks. The platform monitors system performance in real time, detects intrusions and activates defensive actions to stop attacks before they escalate.
SVP
SVP develops a modular counter‑UAS ecosystem that restores economic sustainability to short‑range air defense. Its system enables cost‑parity interception, scalable engagements and effective defense against mass drone attacks.
HyperAxes
HyperAxes provides a subsea infrastructure intelligence platform that converts UUV and survey data into a versioned digital twin. Operators gain a continuously updated, auditable record of subsea asset condition to support inspections, risk management and regulatory compliance.
ADA BW
ADA BW provides a deployable, simulation‑driven training system that enables fast, standardized qualification of drone operators across military, security and civil protection organizations. The platform combines portability, a 40‑hour certification programme and modular simulation to support NATO‑wide operational readiness.
Auxsys
Auxsys builds robotic augmentation systems that extend human physical capability in demanding environments. Through active exoskeletons and autonomous legged robots, the company supports soldiers, emergency responders and industrial workers by reducing physical load and increasing endurance and mission effectiveness.
FiveD
FiveD provides a high‑fidelity simulation platform for radar and electromagnetic sensing systems. It enables developers to design, test and validate technologies in realistic virtual environments, accelerating development and improving system resilience in complex electromagnetic conditions.
Orbint
Orbint provides a sovereign, space‑based SIGINT system using formation‑flying LEO satellites to detect, classify and precisely localize hostile RF emitters in near real time. The platform delivers actionable electromagnetic intelligence to strengthen operational awareness and military decision‑making.
Alpha Affinity
Alpha Affinity provides a Decision Intelligence Platform for defence and dual‑use business development teams. It connects fragmented market signals into a structured view of programmes, suppliers, primes and partnerships, enabling earlier opportunity detection and informed commercial decisions.
Key facts
+10 startups (Seed Stage)
3-month duration
B2B or B2B2C focus
CEE-based startups
Startup Criteria
- B2B startups with funding below €5 m. looking to scale both within and beyond the Central Eastern Europe region.
- Startups that have developed a proof of concept and secured the first paying customers.
3 months | GTM and Fundraising Support | Commitment fee of €7.500 excl. VAT
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Throughout the last years we supported more than 1000 startups from different European countries including Germany, UK, Sweden, Estonia, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary and many more. Each year, we facilitate over 1,000 qualified touchpoints for startups with various stakeholders, including corporates, investors, and multipliers, resulting in corporate collaborations, investments, and PwC partnerships
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