Best Business Services Companies in Bulgaria
The 172 best Business Services companies in Bulgaria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CETIN.
Of the 172 Business Services companies we track in Bulgaria, one name swallows almost all the oxygen: Cetin, sitting on $545M of the sector's $548M total disclosed funding. That's not a typo. Everything else, Icanpreneur, Urbo Studio, Dev.BG, The Edge, splits a rounding error between them. So the real question isn't who's leading, it's whether the ecosystem underneath that giant is actually alive. And it is, quietly. Median install growth across business and productivity apps is running at roughly +19% year-on-year across 93 tracked apps, which tells you demand is moving even when the funding headlines don't.
Hot themes right now include analytics tools, business partnership platforms, and ecosystem services, and coverage of Bulgarian operators is rising. Globally, the capital is following the same direction: Sila's $100M raise from Permira signals that institutional money still wants exposure to business services infrastructure, and Iris Business Services pushing into Office 365-based disclosure tooling shows you the product direction the category is moving toward. Bulgaria's funding base is concentrated, yes, but the activity layer beneath it is broader than the numbers first suggest.
Ranked: Best Business Services companies in Bulgaria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CETIN Provider of data and security management, and IT services | $545M | 29 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | LiferayJavaBootstrap+9 | — |
| 2 | URBO Studio Event management platform for enterprises | $1M | 33 mo ago | Seed | Andrey Lilov Founder & CEO | 2015 | SanityGraphQLTypeScript+12 | — |
| 3 | Icanpreneur Provider of strategic consulting services | $1M | 31 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+18 | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 4 | DEV.BG Provider of event management services | $223K | 75 mo ago | Seed | Svetoslav Dimov CEO | 2016 | WordPressZohoMySQL+28 | 1 launch |
| 5 | The Edge Provider of venture creation, innovation support, and business-university collaboration services | $27K | 62 mo ago | Funding Raised | Milena Stoycheva Co-founder | 2017 | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 6 | OPTIX JSC Provider of thermal imaging, night vision devices, and other security services | — | 29 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ivan Cholakov CEO | 1998 | PHPMediaElement.jsApache HTTP Server+16 | 2 launchs |
| 7 | TBS Provider of IT managed services | — | 36 mo ago | Public | Lubomir Minchev Co-Founder | 2001 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+32 | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 8 | LIREX Provider of VAPT and security training services | — | 42 mo ago | Funding Raised | D Ilieva CEO | 1991 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 2 launchs |
Top 12 Business Services companies in Bulgaria
#1
Seed · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2015 · 2242 employees$544.9Mraised▾
Provider of data and security management, and IT services
- Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$394.9K
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$63.8K
- Apr 2022Conventional Debt$544.5M
- Oct 2021Seed—
#2
Seed · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2021 · 8 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of strategic consulting services
#3
Seed · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2015$1.3Mraised▾
Event management platform for enterprises. It provides solutions for booking, management, online and offline sales of solutions in the creative and recreational sectors. It offers features such as revenue generation, marketing tools, control and analysis, booking engine, website creation, ticketing system, channel management, and online and virtual events.
- Sep 2023Seed$1.3M
#4
Seed · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2016$223.5Kraised▾
Provider of event management services
- Mar 2020Seed$223.5K
#5
Funding Raised · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2017$27.2Kraised▾
Provider of venture creation, innovation support, and business-university collaboration services. It facilitates new technology ventures by supporting research projects and enhancing companies’ innovation capacity. It develops an ecosystem where businesses, universities, startups, and organizations co-create socio-economic and environmental impact. It supports innovative research projects and improves companies’ competitiveness through open innovation, lean startup methodologies, and university-business collaboration models. The company aims to bridge the gap between academic research and commercialization, fostering entrepreneurship and enabling businesses to disrupt existing offerings and create regional innovation networks.
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$27.2K
#6
Funding Raised · Panagyurishte, Pazardzhik · founded 1998 · 600 employees—raised▾
Provider of thermal imaging, night vision devices, and other security services
#7
Public · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2001 · 330 employees—raised▾
Provider of IT managed services
#8
Funding Raised · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 1991—raised▾
Provider of VAPT and security training services
#9
Funding Raised · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2001—raised▾
Non governmental organization and research center for legal issue
#10
Acquired · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 2003 · 224 employees—raised▾
Melon provides software development services. Services include mobile and web development, technology consulting, maintenance & support, qa and testing. Web development technologies include ASP.NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, PHP, HTML/JS, Flash/Flex. Mobile development services include for iOS, Android, Windows, PhoneGap, Xamarin etc. Melontech is a Microsoft Gold Partner, member of Bulgarian Association of Software Companies and Bulgarian Web Association. Technology partners include Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Intel.
#11
Funding Raised · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 1989—raised▾
Provider of solutions in development and distribution of legal and business information systems
#12
Funding Raised · Sofia, Sofia City Province · founded 1996 · 4 employees—raised▾
Provider of business operations, defence, and other consulting services
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Business Services coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.