Abylon Turns 10: Reflecting on a Decade of Growth
On the 12th of January, Abylon Consulting turned 10 years old.
What started as a casual conversation in a pizzeria has grown into a company that looks very different today. Founded by Plamen Dapev and Béla Pogátsnik, Abylon began with a shared idea and a lot of curiosity about how data could help organizations make better decisions. In their first interview from ten years ago, the founders talked about their plans and early hopes, while a recent interview published just a few weeks ago reflects on how that original idea evolved in ways they could hardly have imagined back then.
The past decade has brought major changes, both for Abylon and for the technology world around us. Cloud adoption became mainstream, data volumes grew rapidly, artificial intelligence moved from theory to everyday practice, and business decisions started to move faster than ever before.
The Covid period was another defining moment, accelerating digital transformation and remote collaboration across the industry. For Abylon, this shift felt more like an adjustment than a disruption, as flexible working and remote delivery had already been part of how we worked for years. Through all of this, our focus stayed the same: building practical business intelligence, data warehouse, and modern data platform solutions that genuinely help our clients.
Growth naturally followed. As a nice birthday present to ourselves, Abylon recently passed the 100-employee mark. Over the years, our work has also been recognized beyond our own projects, including multiple appearances on the Financial Times FT1000 list in 2022, 2023, and 2024, which highlights Europe’s fastest-growing companies. We were also included in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe ranking, recognizing some of the region’s fastest-growing technology firms. Opening our London office in 2024 was another important step, and one that brought our international ambitions a little closer to home.
As we celebrate this milestone, we want to say thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey so far. To our current and former colleagues, to the clients who trusted us with their challenges, and to our technology partners who worked alongside us.
Ten years in, we are still driven by the same idea we started with: helping organizations make better decisions using their data.
