Made in Emerging Europe: Craft, Bidrento, InRento
April 5, 2021
Emerging Europe’s start-up scene is thriving: new money is pouring into the market all the time. To keep you up to date with the latest investments, innovations, movers and shakers, each Monday
Emerging Europe brings you a handy round-up of the region’s start-ups which closed financing rounds over the previous seven days.
Craft Docs on MacOs
Hungary’s Craft is ‘the only writing tool you’ll ever need’
Budapest-based start-up Craft has secured eight million US dollars (6.8 million euros) in a Series A round led by European early-stage investor Creandum, joined by InReach Ventures and Gareth Williams, the former CEO and co-founder of Skyscanner.
Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M, led by Creandum and a ‘Skyscanner Mafia’
Launched in only November last year, the Craft Docs app which was built from the ground up as an iOS app for collaborative documents has secured an $8 million Series A round led by Creandum. Also participating was InReach Ventures, Gareth Williams, former CEO and co-founder of Skyscanner, and a number of other tech entrepreneurs, many of whom are ex-Skyscanner.
Currently available on iOS, iPadOS and MacOS, Craft now plans to launch APIs, extended integrations, and a browser-based editor in 2021. It has aspirations to become a similar product to Notion, and the founder and CEO Balint Grosz told me over a Zoom call that “Notion is very much focused around writing and wikis and all that sort of stuff. We have a lot of users coming from Notion, but we believe we have a better solution for people, mainly for written content. Notion is very strong with its databases and structural content. Pe