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Appolica is a venture studio that works with founders from the ground up.

02/06/2026

Where you build matters. That’s why Digithon is happening at WorkBetter 1.0 - one of Sofia’s best co-working spaces. 🏢

A venue built for collaboration, creativity, and getting things done. Exactly what you need when you have one day to go from idea to working product.

Thank you for giving our teams the best possible environment to build in!

01/06/2026

The mentor lineup just got even stronger. 🔥

4 new mentors are joining Digithon - and they bring serious firepower:

Radoslav Georgiev - Chief Efficiency Officer at Payhawk, Co-founder of Quantive (formerly Gtmhub) which raised a $120M Series C - the largest in OKR software history.
Volen Vulkov - Co-founder of Enhancv, the AI-powered resume builder with 11M+ users and 17M+ resumes created across 150+ countries.
Ludmil Simeonov - Co-founder & CTO of Pricemind, Co-founder of Stellion. Building AI-powered e-commerce tools from the ground up.
Stefan Atanasov - Engineering Manager at Appolica, leading the tech team behind 200+ delivered projects.

June 7 · Sofia · Workbetter 1.0

28/05/2026

We told you the jury would be stacked. Here it is. 👇

Meet the people who’ll decide who takes home the €2,000 prize at Digithon:

Martin Markov - Co-founder & CEO of clearcue.ai and Appolica | Venture studio, Forbes 30 Under 30
Daniel Kanchev - Director of Product Development at SiteGround, 15+ years leading product across AI and e-commerce
Nikola Likov - CGO at Rimthan, Chairman of The Bridge & The Bridger Network, Forbes 30 Under 30
Dilan Sisu - VC at e2vc (formerly 500 Emerging Europe), backing founders across CEE with a freshly announced €100M Fund III
Daniel Kiss-Kiraly - Pre-Seed & Seed VC investor at Portfolion, partnering with founders across Central and Eastern Europe

Founders, VCs, product leaders, AI builders - all in one room.
The top 3 teams will pitch directly to them for the grand prize.

June 7 · Sofia · Workbetter 1.0

26/05/2026

🦔 PostHog is backing Digithon!

One of the biggest names in product analytics is joining forces with us.
From session replays to feature flags, A/B testing to funnels - PostHog gives builders the tools to ship smarter, faster. 🚀

And to make things even better - they’re hooking up the winning team with exclusive PostHog merch! 🎁

22/05/2026

SiteGround Life is backing Digithon!

We’re thrilled to have SiteGround, a company powering millions of businesses worldwide with products built entirely in-house - as a partner of Digithon by Digitalk Conference & Appolica ✊🏻

With 20 years of technical pioneering and an AI-first mindset, SiteGround is the kind of partner that truly gets what a hackathon is all about. Thank you for fueling innovation! 💡

18/05/2026

40+ teams applied. We had to pick 11.

That turned out to be nearly impossible. The level was so high that we couldn’t cut it down to just 11 - so we added 4 bonus teams. 15 teams are in.

Darlingthon, Drop Table, chushkopek, Master J, Moreni Glazers, Ship Happends, Grym & mulnii, WINNR, Double Oreo, Quant, Terrarium, M3, Berserk Disruptirs, Боза на клечка, OveRide - congratulations. You made it through.

To every team that applied and didn’t get in this time - thank you. The bar was incredibly high, and we hope to see you at the next one.

To the 15 that are in - we’ll see you on June 7. Bring your A-game.

📅 June 7, 2026 · Sofia, Workbetter 1.0

14/05/2026

The first part of the Digithon jury is here.
Before anyone gets to the main stage of Digitalk, they have to get past these three.

This is the internal jury, the people who will evaluate all 11 teams after 8 hours of building and select the 3 that earn the right to pitch on the big stage.

Ralitsa Ivanova — Co-founder of clearcue.ai. Head of our Appolica | Venture studio, previously CEO & Co-founder of Tribie. Forbes 30 Under 30.

Deyan Genovski — Co-founder & CTO of Appolica | Venture studio. Leads an engineering org of 50+ developers building mobile and cloud products for startups and scaleups across the US and UK. 250+ products shipped under Appolica to date.

Botty Dimanov, PhD — Co-founder & CEO of Tenyks. Cambridge University spin-out, YC (S21), $3.4M seed raised. PhD in Explainable AI for Vision from Cambridge, holder of a US patent. Forbes 30 Under 30.

Part two of the jury coming soon.
Registrations are still open, link in the bio.

11/05/2026

The full mentor lineup for Digithon is here.

As promised, some of the best founders, CTOs, and engineers in Bulgaria, all in one room on June 7.

Jury reveal drops Wednesday.
Apply now, link in the comment👇

07/05/2026

The second wave of mentors for Digithon is here and there's about a week left to apply for our hackathon with Kapital Events on June 7.

Kalin Stoev — Co-founder & Head of Engineering at xHeal.ai. Also Head of Engineering at MindNest and Co-founder of ApplauseLab.

Danail Hadjiatanasov — VP of Revenue at MUI (the team behind Material UI). Ex-Engineering Manager, active angel investor, mentor, and speaker at JSNation Amsterdam.

Dimitar Nikolov — Founder & CEO of Take a NAP. Also Founder & CEO of Softaware, Co-founder & CTO of TaxRest in London. Forbes 30 Under 30, class of 2024.

Kiril Boychev, PhD — PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Dronamics ($40M raised, EIC-backed, Founders Factory alumnus). Founder of Aviumtechnologies Ltd.

Part three of the jury dropping soon.

One week left. Apply now, link in the comments👇

05/05/2026

Meet the first wave of mentors for Digithon, the hackathon we're building together with Digitalk and Kapital Events on June 7.

We said San Francisco pace and ex*****on. So we brought founders who've actually been through it.

Here's who's mentoring the teams:
Nick Gospodinov — Co-founder & CEO of Mandel AI. $3.9M seed raised, backed by Y Combinator (S23), Category Ventures, Ritual Capital, and e2vc.

Alex Chalakov Chakalov — Co-founder of eNOugh. $2.7M raised in Dec 2025, led by A*Ventures (Kevin Hartz), with Comma Capital, Karman Ventures, and Intuition VC.

Tiho Banov — Co-founder & CTO of AdScout. Founder of Epoha Online, development lead at Dconex, 15+ years in software engineering.

Dani Penev — Co-founder & CEO of Slicker. YC (S23), ex-Stripe and Thought Machine.

Yavor Mihailov — Co-founder & CEO of MYX Robotics. ~€3.85M raised from Connect44 and New Vision 3, ranked #1 in Bulgaria's Gepard ranking of fastest-growing SMEs.

Rangel Milushev — Co-founder of Правен Интелект. Harvard CS, previously founded BabylonAI (YC W23) and Rex.fit.

This is just part one. More mentors coming soon.
11 spots. Less than 1 weeks to apply 👇
https://www.digithon.tech/

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