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Inside Italy’s Real Estate Auctions: A First-Hand Journey Through Bureaucracy, Bidding, and Buying 🇮🇹

Buying property at auction in Italy can be thrilling, confusing, and incredibly rewarding. But for most foreign investors, it’s a maze of bureaucracy, legal nuance, and cultural specificities. We sat down with a recent Italian auction buyer to walk through every step,  from finding the listing to winning the bid, and finally getting the keys. […]

VendueTech Achievements Timeline: A Journey of Growth, Innovation, and Recognition At VendueTech, we’ve made tremendous progress through strategic initiatives, research and development, and international expansion. Below is an updated timeline highlighting key milestones and achievements. 2023: A New Beginning 2024: Laying the Foundation and Building Momentum 2025: Expanding Influence and Achieving Milestones 2025: Strategic Grants […]

Your Contributions, Your Future: Unpacking VendueTech's Stock Options for Flexible Contractors

Unlock Your Future: VendueTech's Transparent ESOP for Early Contributors At VendueTech, we're building the future of real estate tech, and we believe our early contributors should share directly in our success. That's why we've designed a robust and transparent Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP), offering you the unique opportunity to become an owner and grow […]

VendueTech and Engel & Völkers Málaga Sign LOI for Pilot of Bidsale.eu

VendueTech is delighted to announce the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Engel & Völkers Málaga, confirming a pilot program of our Bidsale.eu platform. This agreement reflects our joint ambition to modernize distressed property auctions across both the Spanish and German markets, with Málaga serving as the first testbed for innovation. About Engel […]

🚀 VendueTech: First Croatian Company to Apply for EuroHPC AI Resources

We’re proud to announce that VendueTech has become the first Croatian company to apply for EuroHPC AI resources — with the support of SRCE (University of Zagreb Computing Centre) through the EDIH CROBOHUB++ programme. This milestone highlights Croatia’s entry into the world of European high-performance computing (HPC) for startups — and underscores our mission to […]

🚀 Milestone Unlocked: Bidsale® is Now an Official EU Trademark

On August 26, 2025, VendueTech reached a major milestone: Bidsale® is now a registered EU trademark (EUIPO No. 019184618). This grants us exclusive protection across all 27 EU member states, securing our brand identity as we scale across Europe. Even more exciting, the entire process took just 4½ months, completed with zero oppositions — thanks […]

VendueTech Joins the Eurostars Programme: A New Chapter Begins 🚀

We are thrilled to share some incredible news: VendueTech has been accepted into the Eurostars funding programme! 🎉 This isn’t just another milestone — it’s a transformative step forward. The Eurostars programme is Europe’s flagship initiative supporting innovative SMEs that push boundaries. Co-funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe, along with national and bilateral […]

Scaling Real Estate Intelligence with AI and EuroHPC: The Deep Tech Behind BidSale

From billions of parameters to millions of documents, here’s how we’re building the future of property auction analytics—powered by HPC, LLMs, and predictive modeling. Published on: April 24, 2025 Author: Renato Mutavdzic, Jr. AI Engineer Context: The Real Estate Auction Problem Real estate auctions are an opaque and fragmented landscape. Legal documents are dense, auction listings vary […]

Bidsale Receives Strong Preliminary Evaluation from Eureka Panel

Subtitle: Early assessment highlights excellence, feasibility, and impactful potential of VendueTech's AI-powered distressed property auction platform Published on: April 22, 2025 Author: Ivan Livić, CEO & Co-Founder VendueTech is proud to share that our project, Bidsale: A Next-Generation AI-Powered SaaS Platform for Distressed Property Auctions, has received strong preliminary results in the Eureka funding assessment. […]

VendueTech: Disrupting the Distressed Real Estate Auction Market with AI

VendueTech is a deep-tech startup based in Ireland and Croatia, with colleagues and independent contractors spread around Europe with a mission to revolutionize the distressed real estate auction market. Our platform, BidSale, enables investors to seamlessly access and capitalize on distressed property opportunities with unmatched transparency, speed, and precision. Through AI-powered tools and real-time insights, […]

🎨 VendueTech Secures EUIPO Community Design Protection for Graphical Interfaces

We’re proud to share that on February 2, 2025, VendueTech officially received Community Design protection from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Our design, registered under EUIPO No. 015091852-0001, covers graphical user interfaces (GUIs) — ensuring that the unique look and feel of our platform’s visual design is now legally protected across all 27 […]

🥈 VendueTech Wins the Silver Teslino Jaje Innovation Award 2024

We are thrilled to announce that VendueTech has been awarded the Silver Teslino Jaje at the VIDI E-novation Awards 2024 for our innovation Bidsale — a platform leveraging advanced tech to revolutionize how property data, auctions, and real estate information are accessed and analyzed. vidilab.vidi.hr This recognition reaffirms our commitment to pushing the boundaries of […]

3rd🥉 place at Startup Factory competition.

🥉 3rd place (out of 13 startups) and 5,000€ for our idea at Startup Factory competition. We entered the program as #1 on the list, and happy to wrap up a year as bronze winner and 5,000€ cash award + super nice office space and most importantly support of mentors, and startup community. Below you […]

A Croatian from Singapore presented his unique real estate platform in Belgrade

Ivan Livić, co-founder and CEO of the VendueTech startup, which deals with real estate in bankruptcy, designed a platform that combines millions of data in real time. Data Science Conference Europe 2023 is the largest European event dedicated to artificial intelligence and data and one of the world's leading franchises dedicated to artificial intelligence and […]

Prvi domaći proptech startup: U Hrvatskoj godišnje više od 3000 aukcija nekretnina, upola cijene

Oglasnici nekretnina, kao dio e-commerca, više nisu nikakva novost. Ali prvi hrvatski proptech startup Vendue Tech ne cilja na oglašavanje kuća, stanova i poslovnih prostora po punim cijenama već na aukcije nekretnina na kojima ih se nerijetko može kupiti i po 50 posto nižoj cijeni. Ponekad i preko 70 posto. Nisu ni samo popusti veliki, […]

No sleep weekend - Building tech solutions for the public good 👨‍💻

Given that we love a good challenge and creating tech solutions that improve the quality of life and address real issues, we participated in Hackl - the Hackathon for Open Zagreb at the end of November. The theme of the Hackathon was the reservation and overview of available city spaces in Zagreb.  Zagreb has 225 public spaces across […]

Ivan Livić presented at the Data Science Conference in Zagreb

When Jelena Joksimovic and our founder and CEO Ivan Livić presented at the Data Science Conference in Zagreb in Q2, they got praised from an audience it was the best keynote they've heard. It got me thinking why that might be the case. It's likely that it's because in VendueTech are trying to solve the […]

Visiting Dublin Tech Summit 🇮🇪

The size of the professionally managed global real estate investment market increased from $10.5 trillion in 2020 to $11.4 trillion in 2021, according to the MSCI Real Estate Market Size Report 2021/22. Given this significant expansion, it's surprising that only a few of the 150+ startups and 200+ speakers at the Dublin Tech Summit are […]

3rd time keyote at the amazing Data Science Conference 🇷🇸

3rd time being invited to the amazing Data Science Conference. This one in Belgrade, Serbia. With thousands of visitors, it's the largest and most visited data conference in Europe. Achieved:1. 30min keynote presenting R&D, data challenges and opportunities, roadmap, and innovation VendueTech is building, and where the public data is heading in coming years ✅2. […]

Most points to enter ZICER - Zagreb Innovation Centre startup incubator 🇭🇷

🗣 🥇 Happy to announce that VendueTech innovative product idea not only was accepted, but came 1st in the ZICER - Zagreb Innovation Centre's new cohort of startups. 🎉 Thanks to awesome team for getting another positive milestone! If you are interested in a equity based role in early stage startup, we are currently hiring […]

Projekt sufinancira Hrvatska agencija za malo gospodarstvo, inovacije i investicije kroz program Eurostars sredstvima Europske unije iz programa Obzor Europa i sredstvima Švicarsko-hrvatskog programa suradnje. Eurostars je dio Europskog partnerstva za inovativna mala i srednja poduzeća.
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