Top 5 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Romania in January 2026

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• Genezio — The type safe serverless platform for modern full-stack developers Everything you need to build apps that scale up to millions of users.
• FintechOS — FintechOS extends your core, letting you innovate banking and insurance products, digital journeys, and back-office workflows without the cost or risk.
• Druid AI — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.

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• Bobnet — AUTOMATED IOT & AI NET OF STORES AND LOGISTIC TERMINALS - the fastest access to food and grocery products for immediate consumption. Purpose: to develop one of leading positions in emerging SuperConvenience Food & Grocery market in Europe by operating own chains and providing diverse turn-key Solutions to retail operators

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• KooKoo Grocery — KooKoo Grocery este un magazin online care livreaza rapid din depozitele proprii in 1-2h in Bucuresti si Ilfov, seara si in weekend. Livrare next day pentru celelalte orase din Romania.
• Merken food & drinks — We are a CPG company focused onn hip brands

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• RoboTwin — Easy robot teaching for spray painting, powder coating, grinding, sanding, polishing, general motion teaching. 3 steps & 1 minute to automation.
• Future Genius — Genius Nation is a platform that increases the effectiveness of teaching science subjects by 16 to 27%. The platform individualizes the teaching process for each student. Algorithms that individualize the teaching process are responsible for uniquely adapting the teaching process to the individual cognitive processes of each student. Thanks togamification, the platform supports each student every day, motivating them to acquire skills. The platform combines the school and home environment, allowing for full support of the student. The platform was created as a result of scientific research conducted in schools. Using artificial intelligence technologies and neurolearning, scientific achievements of cognitive psychology help students progress in their studies every day. A dedicated Genius Conduction bone headset was created for the platform.
• ProCredit Bank Moldova — ProCredit Bank Moldova is a development-focused commercial bank.

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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.