Top 10 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Romania (September 2026)

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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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• Codeplain — *codeplain is an ai-powered code generation service that produces production-ready software from specifications written in ***plain language.
• DesignVerse — Build complex enterprise software using context.
• Salestools AI — Salestools the worlds first AI ASDR and leader in Agentic Sales Agents

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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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• Dronamics — Dronamics offers an all-in-one solution for the middle-mile powered by our Black Swan cargo drone, a network of droneports, and fully mobile control and cargo systems.
• Pago — Pago develops a digital payments platform that allows users to manage and pay household expenses through a mobile application. The company provides bill payment services for utilities, insurance, taxes, mobile prepaid recharges, road tolls, and travel-related services within a unified interface. Its platform supports account aggregation, automaticbill retrieval, payment scheduling, and notification tools that help users organize recurring financial obligations. Pago also integrates with banking and financial service applications to extend payment capabilities across partner ecosystems. The company includes transaction history, account management, and digital document storage features to support personal finance tracking and payment administration. In addition, Pago uses encrypted communications and secure payment processing technologies to support data protection and digital transaction security for consumers and partner platforms.
• Footprints AI — Retail Media Powered by AI That Understands Why People Buy. Connected to Real Shopper Purchases. Footprints AI is the most advanced platform to buy or sell retail ads - in stores and online - with precise targeting across the largest retail media ecosystem.

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• FoodKit (Romania) — FoodKit iti livreaza mancare delicioasa, gatita sanatos, livrata acasa sau la birou pentru toata saptamana si gata de servit in doar 5 minute.

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• CUZIN — CUZIN is your global shopping family. A community marketplace enabling members to purchase any product worldwide by leveraging other members’ buying access or advantages.Members post requests for any product they want from anywhere in the world. Online or offline, specialist boutiques/clearance outlets and sales. This request is pushed to'cuzins' best placed (geographically or commercially) to purchase the item on their behalf. Cuzins earn a tip for helping out!In addition to accepting a shopping request, any cuzin can instantly monetise being in the right place at the right time posting a purchase opportunity, which is pushed to interested members worldwide. Shopping, shipping, social. Sorted. CUZIN provides the social and logistics platform to facilitate the matching, communication, payment and shipping of the items we love worldwide.
• Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.

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• Mlinar — Mlinar is the bakery retail and wholesale business in Croatia and operates the largest bakery retail network in South East Europe.
• Yapı ve Kredi Bankası — Yapi Kredi Bankasi, established in 1944, is one of the first nationwide private banks in Turkey. It is engaged in credit cards, assets management, non-cash loans, leasing, factoring, private pension funds and non-life insurance. It is 80% owned by Koc Finansal Hizmetler (KFH), whose combined financial services network consists of over 13 millioncustomers and 835 branches in Turkey.Yapi Kredi was acquired by Mehmet Emin Karamehmet's Çukurova Holding in 1984. In 2003, Çukurova Holding reached an agreement with the Turkish bank regulator to sell the majority of its shares in Yapi Kredi within two years. In 2005, the majority of shares in Yapi Kredi was acquired by the owners of Koçbank. Koç Finansal Hizmetler (KFH) was an equal partnership between Koç Holding and Italian banking giant, Unicredit. In 2006, Koçbank was merged into Yapı Kredi, leaving 80% of Yapi Kredi owned by KFS.
• European Metals Holdings — European Metals Holdings is a mineral exploration and development company engaged in the exploration of tin and base metals. The Company is primarily involved in the development of a lithium and tin project in the Czech Republic.

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• Elia Belgium — Elia Transmission Belgium operates the electricity transmission network in Belgium. We manage the Belgian high-voltage transmission grid (30 kV to 400 kV), which comprises over 8,903 km of overhead lines and underground cables. We preserve a service reliability level of 99.99 % and ensure that production and consumption are balanced around theclock. In so doing, we provide society with a robust power grid, which is important for socioeconomic prosperity.
• DP World Group — DP World is a world leader in end-to-end supply chain solutions. We ensure future viability of global international trade & prosperity of communities around the world
• Econergy Renewable Energy — Econergy to create, own, and manage utility-scale renewable energy projects, guided by in-depth knowledge of the industry, regulations, and technology at each crucial stage, from creation to supply

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• La Cocos — La CocoS is a food retailer Operator of a bargain retail store in Ploiesti, Romani
• EnduroSat — Enabling profitable LEO satellite constellations with standardized satellites and fixed-cost space service. 100+ satellites deployed to orbit
• DocProcess — Business Ecosystem Automation platform that helps automate processes across the entire business ecosystem. We cover P2P, O2C, Logistics and Contract Management.

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• Ialoc — Lalocis is an online booking platform that offers reservation services. They develop a mobile application designed to let users make online reservations at restaurants. The application lets users set filters like type of restaurant, kitchen style, date and time of reservation, number of people, location, and much more to book their seats inrestaurants, bars, cafes, and teahouses.