Top 30 Angel Investors in Romania in September 2025
A list of 30 angel investors that invest in startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.Top 30 Angel Investors in Romania in September 2025
Investor | Romania investments |
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Malin-Iulian Stefanescu | 6 |
Marius Ghenea | 4 |
Bianca Rusu | 2 |
Oliver Hehl | 2 |
Sherry Coutu | 2 |
Constantine Goulimis | 1 |
Marius Istrate | 1 |
Septimiu Pop | 1 |
Simion Ioan Apreutese | 1 |
Luke McNeice | 1 |
Mihai Florin Talpos | 1 |
Andra Malina Platon | 1 |
Florin Pop | 1 |
Ștefan Muscalu | 1 |
Mihai Tarta | 1 |
Ana Cinca | 1 |
Vlad Ionescu | 1 |
Loredana Apreutese | 1 |
Daniel Dines | 1 |
Alex Hoye | 1 |
Andrei Doibani | 1 |
Sacha Dragic | 1 |
Radu Amarie | 1 |
Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
Cosmin Manea | 1 |
Paul Robert Cary | 1 |
Shane Gray | 1 |
Mircea Ilea | 1 |
Gabriela Amarie | 1 |
Chris Severson | 1 |
Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Romania, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aggero — Turn every piece of video content into actionable insights for your next campaign
- Tokinomo — Discover Tokinomo, the in-store interactive robotic promotional display helps FMCG products stand out on the shelves for an average 200% increase in sales.
- Vatis Tech — Speech-to-text recognition API with custom AI models and real-time transcription for the English language. Get started now for FREE!
• Partner of Catalyst Romania VC Fund (part of 3TS Capital Partners) - http://catalystromania.ro/
• “Investor of the Year in Romania 2016 and 2017" award by CESA with Catalyst Romania Fund
• Serial entrepreneur and business-angel with successful investments in SEE, ranks in fortune Romanian surveys Capital, Forbes.
• Experienceas an start-up entrepreneur with Flamingo, from zero revenues and capital to a $50M company, the largest IT product distribution network in Romania, in 7 years. Setting-up a Flamingo International group structure with direct operations in 7 SEE countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Yugoslavia) and one fully-fledged subsidiary in Holland, 1999 – 2001.
• Manager of team of 500+ people with Flamingo, employees from various countries (majority Romanian), cultures, backgrounds and contributing to the creation of one of the best teams in the IT business in the Balkan region
• Experience in private equity and venture capital investments. Deal-leader on 6 (123ContactForm, VectorWatch, Marketizator Friends, Intelligent IT/SmartBill, Smartdreamers, Vola.ro) out of 10 investments of Catalyst Romania Fund.
• Exit track-record: VectorWatch, sold to FitBit early 2017, PCGarage, bought by Naspers/Emag in 2016; VikingProfil, bought by Pruzsinski of Poland, 2008, Flanco, successful exit in 2006, Flamingo, successful IPO in 2004, etc. • Co-Founder VentureConnect (regional matchmaking platform for tech start-up entrepreneurs and early-stage investors); President Romanian Association for the Online Stores (ARMO)
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Business Ventures Professor, Maastricht School of Management EMBA program
• Co-organizer Schoolforstartups Romania, the first SE European entrepreneurship school
• Author of “Entrepreneurship”, the first Romanian book on entrepreneurship and TV dragon in the Romanian Dragons’ Den
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Romania, United Kingdom, Serbia
Portfolio highlights
- Marketizator — Serious eCommerce players become customer-centric if they focus on what matters. Optimize your customer journey with data-driven decisions.
- Vector Watch — Vector Watch's vision is to change the way people use smart watches and wearable technologies. The company was founded in 2013 by a team of former executives in the technology industry, backed by young engineers and multi-awarded designers for their projects in international innovation competitions.
- SmartDreamers — The talent acquisition software that helps you reach and engage more, better candidates in record time through the use of Recruitment Marketing Automation.
Entrepreneur & angel investor in disruptive startups building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Education
- Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Romania, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cyscale — At Cyscale, we believe that a safer Cloud means a safer World. We need to do something extraordinary to have a better, easier and more secure way of designing & deploying any Cloud Infrastructure in AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and even Alibaba Cloud.That is why we create amazing tools so that everybody canbuild & deploy cloud infrastructure with security in mind, knowing the costs upfront, while maintaining continuous regulatory compliance. All done automatically with just a few clicks.We are the first Cloud Management, Security and Compliance company empowering both regular people and cloud professionals with visual tools to meet this level of cloud automation and security.We're Cyscale, born in the Cloud to protect the Cloud!Join our team or pre-register for the product launch: https://cyscale.com
- BRIO — Brio is more than an idea whose time has come — it’s a fully fledged DeepTech SaaS educational platform that was conceptualised according to the most rigorous global standards. One of those few fortunate businesses where profit and social purpose go hand in hand, Brio is a first mover in a market of 3 million students (in Romania alone), offeringcore testing products for grades 1-12, for the National Evaluation and the Baccalaureate.
- SecurifAI — SecurifAI develop AI systems for real-time video analysis in order to detect suspect behavior, potential attacks, and deliver timely alerts.
Oliver Hehl
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, Apps
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- OWWN — wajve offers all financial services like banking, advice, and education in one app.
- Jobful — Build your own talent community with Jobful. Connect, engage, and hire faster with smart tools that reduce costs and boost candidate quality.
- deineStudienfinanzierung — deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.
Sherry Coutu currently works as an Independent Non Executive Director for Pearson. She previously worked at superpower as a Director. Sherry Coutu attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Romania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Topia — Topia supports companies with global mobility programs, business travelers and remote workers, to enhance efficiencies and ensure compliance.
- FullCircl — FullCircl is a Customer Lifecycle Intelligence (CLI) platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. Better business, faster.
Constantine is one of the founders (in 1985) of Greycon. Constantine was born in Greece and studied mathematics at Cambridge (BA, MA) and Control Systems at Imperial College (M.Sc.). He completed his Ph.D. in combinatorial optimisation, the cutting stock problem also at Imperial. He is particularly proud that some of the code he wrote then is stillin daily production use at many plants around the world, as part of Greycon's X-Trim.In the Greek army he learned, among other things, exactly how many chickens it takes to feed a regiment and has amassed collection of army stories to tell. He has also served as Deputy Director of the Industrial Systems Group at Imperial College. During 2010 he also consulted with the Greek Ministry of Finance, advising on how tax collection could be improved; the proposals were adopted a month later. In November 2013 he attended the 3-week Advanced Leadership Programme at Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Instant Factoring — Instant Factoring is a fintech factoring platform providing liquidity to small entrepreneurs in max 24h, powered by robot-underwriting, transactions transparency using the blockchain, and developing machine learning based credit risk algorithms. We enable entrepreneurs to reap the rewards of their hard work immediately, turning their invoices intocash as the easiest step to getting the money they need quickly, without the burden of bureaucracy, extremely long analysis and response time.Instant Factoring’s mission is to enable the development of small businesses by providing them with flexible and innovative financing solutions.The company estimates that more than 15.000 small businesses will use its services by the end of 2022, with an average value of invoice financed of approximately EUR 2.000. Distinguishing features of the platform include: the unique and patented internal credit-scoring tool, leveraging artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to provide fast credit decisions; registering the invoice portfolio ledger on the blockchain as an anti-fraud / double sale of an invoice, while in the near future we intend to implement smart contracts and payment ledger on the blockchain. Data and information is gathered from multiple sources and processed efficiently to rate customer invoices, and provide up front transparency on pricing. The internal algorithm is continuously improving through machine learning, bringing significant competitive advantage to the business.
Marius Istrate
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- parol — A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients.
- Pythagora — Build full-stack applications with AI that go beyond demos. With real debugging tools and production features, Pythagora helps you launch apps that actually work.
Septimiu Pop is HORECA entrepreneur and owner of DaVinci restaurant, Square hotel and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Simion Ioan Apreutese is the CEO and General Manager at SC International Alexander SRL.
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Investment focus
- Leasing
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- MOOV Leasing — MOOV Leasing develops and operates a digital platform that offers car leasing services. It offers multiple options to choose from and provides full details of available packages. MOOV Leasing was founded in 2022 and is based in Bucharest, Romania.
Luke McNeice is the founder of Lola Tech, multi-exit techpreneur from UK.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Mihai Florin Talpos is entrepreneur, founder of the IT Informal School and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Andra Malina Platon
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- parol — A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients.
Florin Pop is the founder of Primainvest and investor of Telios, Foodprints, Aiva and others.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Ștefan Muscalu is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Mihai Tarta is the founder of Synex Media, IT entrepreneur and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Ana Cinca
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- parol — A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients.
Vlad Ionescu is Chief Marketing Officer at Tokinomo - Robotic Shelf Advertising. Attended at University of Bucharest.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Serbia, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Metadata — Metadata is an autonomous demand generation platform that automates the most critical but often tedious tasks in marketing to help companies efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. Through machine learning, a proprietary corporate-to-personal identity graph, and automatic optimization to revenue KPIs, Metadata’s platform generates demandfrom target accounts and converts them to customers much faster than legacy methods. Innovative B2B marketers at Zoom, RingCentral, Slack, Thoughtspot and Vonage rely on Metadata to generate predictable velocity of inbound pipeline from target accounts. 3 USPTO patents.
- Trickest — Add SEO description here.
- Respeecher — Voice cloning: create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators.
Loredana Apreutese is a General Manager at International Alexander Holding.
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Investment focus
- Leasing
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- MOOV Leasing — MOOV Leasing develops and operates a digital platform that offers car leasing services. It offers multiple options to choose from and provides full details of available packages. MOOV Leasing was founded in 2022 and is based in Bucharest, Romania.
Daniel Dines is Co-founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI software worldwide. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is tomake software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace -- a vision dubbed One Robot for Every Person.Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era, helping businesses of all sizes digitize everyday business operations and apply AI to drive true digital transformation. This era brings tremendous value to businesses and new career opportunities for people – which is why Dines aims to democratize RPA via free training and software, as well through UiPath’s Academic Alliance program, which trains and certifies university students, youth, and traditionally underrepresented groups – with an eye toward preparing people for the jobs of the future.Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth – delivering intelligent automation solutions to thousands of companies around the world, including government agencies and many of the Fortune 500. He has raised more than $1B from top-tier venture capital firms, with a post-money valuation of $7B.Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting the 250,000 developers who are building automations on UiPath’s RPA platform.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Goodlegal — Goodlegal is the One-Stop-Shop for all your Legal needs. Get an out-of-the-box Legal Infrastructure Platform to handle all your problems.
- Avi Medical — Avi Medical is a digital health care company that provides telemedicine services. Its platform enables patients to book appointments, manage their health data, and chat with the practitioner. The company uses data-driven medicine to provide patients and healthcare workers with a streamlined, more modern experience.
Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Motion - Activity Goals — Use Motion to set your personal weekly activity goal and visualise progress. Create a team with friends and share your goals.
- Grabble — Discover the best new fashion and homeware with the Grabble app. Get inspired by amazing articles and edits curated by our expert stylists, and buy anything you like in one tap.
- Carv — Carv 2 clips onto any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.
Andrei Doibani is the Managing Director Eastern Europe Nagarro and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Sacha Dragic - Founder, Board member & Executive Chairman @ Superbet
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Investment focus
- News, Sports, Fitness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Romania, The Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Portfolio highlights
- Medicai — Medicai allows for in-the-cloud, real-time collaboration between doctors and patients on imaging investigations (CT, MRI, PET-CT, and more) and medical documents.
- Rolla — Rolla helps beginners and fitness enthusiasts to improve their overall health & fitness. Take the next step and reach your goals with features tailored to your preferences and fitness level.
- Sportening — Everything a fan needs in one place. Chat with other fans, rate players & get the most relevant news and scores for your team.
Radu Amarie is a angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
- Tracelight — Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy.
- Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.
Cosmin Manea
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Seed, Angel
- Spain, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Burger Index — Burger Index provides restaurants, food and hospitality brands with real-time market, competition and consumer insights for location analysis, product development, order conversion and marketing. No guesswork, no outdated reports.
- Ecotree Romania — EcoTree is the first digital platform in Romania that provides real and measurable benefits to the waste management industry by digitizing operational processes and legal documentation through business intelligence modules for data analysis and reporting, dedicated tendering modules and more, ensuring full transparency and traceability. In thisway, the startup actively contributes to a clean and sustainable environment. The company was founded in 2017 by Bogdan Andronache, Alexandru Petrescu, Marius Cîrstea and Dan Simota with the aim of digitizing the specific processes of waste collection and recycling, positioning itself as a player in the circular economy.
Classically trained pianist & composer, 20 years working in strategy, sales, marketing & startups. History degree, speaks 6 languages. Born in Africa, educated in the US. NCAA Division 1 Athlete. Award winner at Columbia Business School.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Shane Gray is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Mircea Ilea
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Investment focus
- Logistics, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Frisbo — Sell more, in new markets with borderless order fulfillment and smart logistics. Curated warehouses, best shipping deals, all in one dashboard.
Gabriela Amarie is a Founder of Digital Tailors Agency.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Chris Severson is a Non Executive Director of Annington homes limited.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
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