Top 5 Impact 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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• 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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• Bonapp.eco — bonapp.eco is a mobile application that connects consumers with traders whose food is approaching its expiry date to combat food wastage.

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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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• Hedepy — Online therapy works. Research has proven that what matters is the conversation, not where the conversation happens.
• scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
• Candam — Candam specializes in developing technology for the waste management solutions sector. It has developed a cost-effective Smart Ring technology capable of recognizing all types of packaging material. Its patented system recognizes all types of packaging material in real time due to acoustic techniques combined with AI algorithms. It aims to improvewaste collection with the use of technology.