Top 10 Community Startup Investors in Romania in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Community startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Community Startup Investors in Romania in November 2024

Investor	Community Romania investments
Malin-Iulian Stefanescu	2
3TS Capital Partners	2
Early Game Ventures	1
Marius Ghenea	1
CONSILO WEB	1
Zeyshare Ventures	1
SeedBlink	1
Neogen Capital	1
European Union	1
Roca X	1

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Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father

Investment focus

Marketing, Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aggero — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.
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!

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Romania, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.

Early Game Ventures (EGV) is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups that jumpstart new industries in the emerging markets of Europe.Their philosophy is quite straightforward: they invest at the earliest stages in companies whose founders have vested interests, are coachable and address big markets. If the opportunity is real,they prefer to be the first institutional investor in such startups.EGV is also running a concierge accelerator, taking in only 5 or 6 startups per year for a very intensive and tailor-made program.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Youni — Youni is a student online application platform that finds universities and recruitment partners.
CogniSync — CogniSync helps teams and organizations scale top performance and individual autonomy. Our 'embedded AI intelligence' surfaces best practices and reveals any potential misalignment with compliance or internal standards in real-time via AI feedback & guidance on your work - automatically, on top of any platform or tool.
The Cat Health Company — The Cat Health Company, which focuses on advancing feline longevity research to prevent or delay age-related illnesses in cats.

• 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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom

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.

Consilo WEB is a Sibiu company specialized in the outsourcing of remote sales services and back office activities Since 2015, we have been bringing value to our partners by adapting our solutions to their requirements and needs.

Investment focus

Video, Education, Communities
Seed
Romania

Portfolio highlights

T@Book — Building the largest library in the world.

Zeyshare Ventures provides venture capital investments in early & growth stage technology startups across Romania and the Central & South Eastern Europe region, as well as venture building services. Zeyshare Ventures | venture capital & venture building

Investment focus

Internet, News, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Romania, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Five FS — Five FS offers five financial services: loans, mortgages, deposits, insurance and leasing, by pitting financial institutions against each other in a bidding process.
Bidvilla — Bidvilla is a bidding platform for home buyers and homeowners.
TechRadarRO — TechRadar.ro is a news aggregator platform focused on the Romanian content market.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pago — Managing and paying utility bills, insurance, mobile top-ups and taxes takes too much time for many households in Europe. Pago simplifies these payments by adding automation where possible, using integrations with billers, insurers and online platforms to dramatically reduce the time needed for all these payments. The service is available in theB2C app called Pago and through B2B integrations by embedding Pago features in partner apps through SDK or API. Pago's services are used by over 500k monthly active users in Romania, Poland and Italy.
Brainactive — Brainactive is an AI-driven platform that streamlines the access to vital insights used by companies to make sound business decisions, by enabling them to directly interview their current and potential customers, regardless of their expertize in sociology, past experience with market research, size of their team, or their market research budget.Integrated with a pool of 300+ million vetted and engaged consumers around the world, the platform allows companies to get relevant answers to their questions in minutes, with assistance from advanced conversational and generative LLM trained on market research, available along the way.Putting businesses in direct contact with their customers essentially removes the need for any intermediaries in the process and brings the costs and time down to a mere fraction of what traditional market research typically requires. At the same time, companies get to keep sensitive concepts and prototypes tested entirely secured, since no one else is involved, at any stage.
dotLumen - Empowering the Blind — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.

We're a venture studio specialised in marketplaces. We build, fund or buy tech companies with impact.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2C
Pre-Seed, Seed
Romania, Greece, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
TULIPR — Tulipr is your solution for Marketing Procurement in the FMCG industry. Manage suppliers and vendors efficiently.
Metabeta — Early-stage portfolio management for startup accelerators and investors.

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