{"id":23498,"date":"2020-04-03T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=23498"},"modified":"2020-04-03T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:53:05","slug":"investment-200-000-euro-dev-bg-largest-community-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/investment-200-000-euro-dev-bg-largest-community-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"An Investment of 200 000 Euro for DEV.BG \u2013 the Largest IT community in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23499 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo.png 180w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo-146x146.png 146w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo-85x85.png 85w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DEV-bg-Logo-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>The Sofia-based DEV.BG, which develops the largest IT community in Bulgaria, has attracted a new investment of 200 000 Euro from SiteGround \u2013 also a Sofia-based website company.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, the DEV.BG community includes over 20 000 members. DEV.BG has developed 15 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">groups of specialists in different domains. The community maintains a directory with the IT companies in Bulgaria and organizes a number of monthly-recurring events to continuously develop the community&#8217;s expertise in areas such as the Internet of things, machine learning, blockchain, business development, financing and starting-up of an IT business. Part of the company is HireHeroes.bg \u2013 the first platform of its kind for recruitment of IT specialists which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">focuses on the employees\u2019 needs, rather than the employers\u2019 needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SiteGround\u2019s investment is not the first one for DEV.BG. At its launch in 2016, the company received 50 000 Euro and support for its business development by business angels. The newly received funds will be used to expand the network of IT specialists and professional events, as well as for the development of the HireHeroes.bg platform. SiteGround will receive 10% of DEV.BG\u2019s shares in return for the investment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SiteGround is a web-hosting company founded in 2004 in Sofia. It serves over 2 000 000 domains all over the world offering shared hosting, cloud hosting, and specialized servers. Over 200 people work for the company in its offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, and Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sofia-based DEV.BG, which develops the largest IT community in Bulgaria, has attracted a new investment of 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498","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=23498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}