The Balkan region of Europe has emerged as a growing hub for tech innovation and entrepreneurship over the last few years. Serbian startups received $135 million in investment in 2021, the same year as the creation of the Open Balkan, an economic and political union of Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia whose benefits could include greater market access and collaboration for tech startups.
That kind of collaboration is exactly what Tale Lokvenec, S.M. ’22, hoped to inspire when he recently co-hosted the Balkan Trek. Lokvenec, who earned a…
