{"id":19179,"date":"2019-06-24T04:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T01:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/?p=19179"},"modified":"2019-06-24T04:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T01:23:14","slug":"first-report-growing-ai-sector-bulgaria-just-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/first-report-growing-ai-sector-bulgaria-just-published\/","title":{"rendered":"First Report on the Growing AI Sector in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19174 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-146x146.png 146w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-85x85.png 85w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AI-Ecosystem-in-Bulgaria-Report-2019-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>SeeNews just published its\u00a0new study titled <em>Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Bulgaria<\/em>,\u00a0created in collaboration with the international innovation company <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vangavis.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vangavis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <em>Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Bulgaria<\/em> is the first comprehensive report, covering the growing AI sector in Bulgaria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The growing popularity of AI technologies is creating a startup wave in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retail, finance and media industries lead the way in terms of AI implementation in Bulgaria with over 30 local companies developing solutions for these sectors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of 47 companies develop or use AI in Bulgaria, of which 32 are startups and scaleups, while 15 are national and international corporations. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sector employed over 3,000 people; AI-related jobs account for 3% of the total developer job market in Bulgaria.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI developers swung to a combined net profit of 17.2 million euro ($19.4 million) in 2017, on revenue of 206.9 million euro. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the report, Bulgaria&#8217;s AI startup ecosystem is still at an early stage of its development but has gained a significant momentum in the past few years, as around one-third of all companies researched for the report were established in the 2016-2018 period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report is available for free download at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.seenews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/reports.seenews.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SeeNews just published its\u00a0new study titled Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Bulgaria,\u00a0created in collaboration with the international innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}