Top 10 Education Startup Investors in Romania in January 2026

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• 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.
• Bright Spaces — Reshaping the leasing experience for tenants, agents, and landlords using cutting-edge technologies. We deliver a unique showcasing experience 100% remotely.
• Footprints AI — Footprints is one of the most advanced AI-driven Retail Media platforms in the world, helping physical retailers generate a new high profit margin revenue in 3 months or less.Retail Media will be a $100 billion market by 2025. This means that 1 in 4 dollars in digital ad spend will be on media platforms that leverage intent-based customerbehavior data.Footprints is part of the global Microsoft Pegasus program, a cohort of 12 high-impact AI startups worldwide with the most viable solutions to transform the physical retail model into an AI-driven business model.Footprints' unique technology enables physical retailers to turn anonymous traffic into profitable, predictable audiences by leveraging our proprietary offline-to-online behavioral data fusion, artificial intelligence and algorithmic automation.Since 2017, Footprints has pioneered AI technologies that enable physical retailers to: - Enable an automated omnichannel retail media service - Become the brand of choice in local communities - Expand more profitably into new local communitiesFootprints is currently working with Tier 1 retailers and retail properties to transform their offline and online visitors into retail media.Every day, Footprints orchestrates and processes billions of visits, searches, and purchases from offline and online retail environments for YOU, to meet your customers' needs better than ever before. The result? A seamless shopping experience, more customers, more sales, and a new high profit margin revenue.Retail Media is the #1 priority for retailers everywhere, who can now offer personalized and curated content to their customers around the world.

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• Milluu — Helping places become homes! Milluu is the app that gets personal, relevant and smart about rent.We believe that things are done properly when you're personally invested. And we invest our technology & smart tools to help you find your next home or your next ideal tenant!We have created a service app that connects directly listers andtenants based on their preferences.Based on AI and ML, our Milluu Bot is the friendly face of the app, assisting you permanently in your rental journey, making suggestions for great matches and helping you close the deal.
• Munevo — Munevo empowers people with disabilities by using smart and innovative technology.
• Bunnyshell — Bunnyshell eliminates DevOps bottlenecks with AI-orchestrated, ephemeral environments that let teams test, integrate, and deploy AI-generated code instantly. Ship 100x faster without breaking production.

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• Bible Chat — Bible Chat is the best Christian AI app that lets you talk to the Bible, ask faith questions, request prayers, and study Scripture. Try now for free!
• Youni — Youni is a student online application platform that finds universities and recruitment partners.
• The Cat Health Company — The Cat Health Company uses cutting-edge biotech, pharma, and machine learning to revolutionize feline health care, ensuring your cats lead healthier, longer lives.

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• Adapta Robotics — Creating, designing, and manufacturing adaptable robotic products that support automation efforts and technological progress.
• Footprints AI — Footprints is one of the most advanced AI-driven Retail Media platforms in the world, helping physical retailers generate a new high profit margin revenue in 3 months or less.Retail Media will be a $100 billion market by 2025. This means that 1 in 4 dollars in digital ad spend will be on media platforms that leverage intent-based customerbehavior data.Footprints is part of the global Microsoft Pegasus program, a cohort of 12 high-impact AI startups worldwide with the most viable solutions to transform the physical retail model into an AI-driven business model.Footprints' unique technology enables physical retailers to turn anonymous traffic into profitable, predictable audiences by leveraging our proprietary offline-to-online behavioral data fusion, artificial intelligence and algorithmic automation.Since 2017, Footprints has pioneered AI technologies that enable physical retailers to: - Enable an automated omnichannel retail media service - Become the brand of choice in local communities - Expand more profitably into new local communitiesFootprints is currently working with Tier 1 retailers and retail properties to transform their offline and online visitors into retail media.Every day, Footprints orchestrates and processes billions of visits, searches, and purchases from offline and online retail environments for YOU, to meet your customers' needs better than ever before. The result? A seamless shopping experience, more customers, more sales, and a new high profit margin revenue.Retail Media is the #1 priority for retailers everywhere, who can now offer personalized and curated content to their customers around the world.
• .Lumen — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.

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

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• Milluu — Helping places become homes! Milluu is the app that gets personal, relevant and smart about rent.We believe that things are done properly when you're personally invested. And we invest our technology & smart tools to help you find your next home or your next ideal tenant!We have created a service app that connects directly listers andtenants based on their preferences.Based on AI and ML, our Milluu Bot is the friendly face of the app, assisting you permanently in your rental journey, making suggestions for great matches and helping you close the deal.
• MediNav — MediNav is a software company. They offer machine learning, artificial intelligence, medtech, and digital health services. They focus on delivering cutting edge technology to hospitals and private practices in order to support them during their consultations and reduce the time spent on filling forms. If anyone wants to contact them please contactthem via phone call or email.
• aqurate.ai — Take your eCommerce shop to the next level with the AI-driven Aqurate tools: Product Recommendations engine, Customer Segmentation tool. Find out more details.

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• TILKI — TILKI is an AI-powered game creation platform that democratizes video game development by enabling all creators to build immersive games without coding.
• ZERØTEC — ZERØTEC is an pattern design and nesting software platform for fashion designers and manufacturers
• Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.

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• 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.

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• Wooplr — A free & easy way to start an online store, Wooplr today empowers 80,000+ store owners to earn on average Rs. 30,000 a month. In just a minute, be ready to go live with 50,000+ products that can be added to the store and sold to friends, family or followers. Wooplr takes care of all the hard work - finding products and brands, technology,payments and refunds, delivery and returns, and a world-class customer care team. Imagine having your own ready-made store with nothing to worry about at all.The company received $5 million in Series-A funding from Helion Ventures and has several strategic investments from industry leaders. The company also has investments from industry veterans like Co-founders of InMobi who include Naveen Tewari, Jaspreet Bindra, Astarc Ventures, Abhay Singhal, and Amit Gupta and Piyush Shah, Chief Product Officer at InMobi, Raghunandan G, Co-founder - Taxi for Sure, and ex-Puma India CEO Rajiv Mehta.
• Slintel — Slintel captures technographic-powered buying intent and helps companies uncover 3% of active buyers in their target market. It evaluates over 100 billion data points and analyzes factors such as buyer journeys, technology adoption patterns, and other digital footprints to deliver market & sales intelligence.Slintel's customers haveaccess to the buying patterns and contact information of more than 17 million companies and 70 million decision-makers across the world.It was established in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California.
• Edu AI Last — With a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, Edu AI Last specializes in delivering AI-powered solutions that redefine corporate training. Our mission is to help businesses unlock their full potential through intelligent, adaptive learning technologies.

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• Telios — Telios provides digital solutions for healthcare services. They provide medical services available to beneficiaries of large and small organizations in areas such as retail, IT, manufacturing, and transportation. For inquiries, telephone and email contact are used.
• AMSIMCEL — AMSIMCEL is a High-Performance Computing (HPC) startup that brings the unprecedented GPU acceleration capabilities into the next generation of Integrated Circuits design tools for the Physical Design Verification.
• FINOR — The all-in-one wealth management software which supports both clients and advisors in managing specific investment products, overseeing entire portfolio and tracking its performance, controlling the asset selection and allocation processes through indicative data, generating and exporting interactive reports in line with regulatory requirements.