Top 20 Internet Startup Investors in Romania in November 2024
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Internet startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Internet Startup Investors in Romania in November 2024
Investor | Internet Romania investments |
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3TS Capital Partners | 6 |
Sparking Capital | 5 |
Early Game Ventures | 5 |
Marius Ghenea | 4 |
Malin-Iulian Stefanescu | 3 |
Gecad Ventures | 3 |
Gapminder VC | 3 |
Catalyst Romania | 3 |
LAUNCHub Ventures | 2 |
Zeyshare Ventures | 2 |
Roca X | 2 |
SeedBlink | 2 |
Fortech Investments | 1 |
Eleven Ventures | 1 |
Global Finance | 1 |
Axxess Capital | 1 |
Underline Ventures | 1 |
MMC Ventures | 1 |
Andreas Cser | 1 |
SIF Transilvania | 1 |
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.
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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.
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- Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Sparking Capital is an early stage fund backing entrepreneurs with unique industry insights, powerful vision and excellence in execution.
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- Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Romania
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- KFactory — KFactory is an Industry 4.0 start-up which disrupts the manufacturing industry and innovates the performance management of production line.
- Hyperhuman — Hyperhuman simplifies video creation, saving time and resources. Boost engagement, retain clients, and grow your business with AI. Try it for free!
- Ecotree Romania — EcoTree is the first digital platform in Romania that provides real and measurable benefits to the waste management industry by digitizing operational processes and legal documentation through business intelligence modules for data analysis and reporting, dedicated tendering modules and more, ensuring full transparency and traceability. In thisway, the startup actively contributes to a clean and sustainable environment. The company was founded in 2017 by Bogdan Andronache, Alexandru Petrescu, Marius Cîrstea and Dan Simota with the aim of digitizing the specific processes of waste collection and recycling, positioning itself as a player in the circular economy.
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.
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- 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
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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.
Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father
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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!
Our commitment, experience, and perseverance have fueled the creativity of some of the most exciting start-ups in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Romania, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FintechOS — FintechOS extends your core, letting you innovate banking and insurance products, digital journeys, and back-office workflows without the cost or risk.
- Dataworks Research SRL — Soleadify provides business data enrichment with unprecedented coverage of SMBs, accurate classification and in-depth insights based on real-time updates.Always driven by the complexity of AI and Machine Learning, we build more efficient ways of getting more data and get more out of it. Urged on reliability and complete-ness, our datasets haveyet to be beaten in terms of accuracy and classification by industry mammoths.
- TypingDNA — TypingDNA provides typing biometrics authentication as a service, enabling companies to recognize people by the way they type. The company's authentication technology compares how people type on their keyboards against previous recordings. Works on both mobiles and PCs. Headquartered in New York, United States, with offices in Romania, EU.
GapMinder plans to invest and support the most disruptive and bold innovations pushing limits and creating positive impact for the community and the overall society.
Our background and experience together with our common values and vision for the fund are the core of our competitive advantage. Our team is eager to create value in the region and forthe region. We focus on Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stages
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
Catalyst Romania is a private equity and venture capital fund platform.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, EdTech
- Funding Round, Seed
- Romania, Serbia
Portfolio highlights
- evoMAG — evoMAG is an online portal that offers tablets, laptops, computer equipment, appliances, printers, and various products.
- ESX — ESX operates as a fitness subscription startup.
- Adapta Robotics — Creating, designing, and manufacturing adaptable robotic products that support automation efforts and technological progress.
LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
- Dataworks Research SRL — Soleadify provides business data enrichment with unprecedented coverage of SMBs, accurate classification and in-depth insights based on real-time updates.Always driven by the complexity of AI and Machine Learning, we build more efficient ways of getting more data and get more out of it. Urged on reliability and complete-ness, our datasets haveyet to be beaten in terms of accuracy and classification by industry mammoths.
- Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.
RocaX > Is building a solid and much needed bridge for startups between the support offered by business angels and the upper stage VCs. Learn more!
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Romania, Italy, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- 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 is an Environment as a Service platform that enables developers to instantly spin up dev environments for any task on Kubernetes and develop remotely.
All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.
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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.
Romanian Investment fund and strategic partner for early-stage start-ups in Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Automotive, and FinTech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data Mining, Manufacturing
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Serbia, Romania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SaleSqueze — SaleSqueze visual CPQ helps you design visual product configurators and automate quote preparation so your customers can see what they are buying.
- Synaptiq.io — When Artificial Intelligence meets Medical Analysis - we create software solutions based on AI for improving medical services.
- Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- Moveo.AI — Moveo.AI is a conversational AI platform that enhances customer support through automation and self-learning capabilities. It serves sales teams by streamlining routine tasks and optimizing communication across various industries.
- Vivian Lab — Vivian Lab is a women's digital health startup. It integrates menopause education, telehealth, personalized treatment regimens, community support, and AI assistants.
Global Finance is an independent investment firm investing in private equity and venture capital.The firm's operation consists of private equity fund management, real estate development, and advisory services. It manages a number of funds, each with a distinctive, clearly defined geographic and investment focus.It was headquartered inAthens, Attiki in 1991 and has offices in Sofia, Bucharest, and Belgrade.
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Investment focus
- Email, Linux, Software
- Series A, Funding Round
- Romania, Bulgaria
Portfolio highlights
- Axigen — Axigen is an integrated email, calendaring and collaboration platform, masterfully built on our unique Linux mail server technology, for increased speed and security. The Axigen messaging platform is available in three solutions, all tailored to customer needs: - Axigen Business MessagingThe full benefits of email communication &collaboration, integrated in a smart & secure solution based on a powerful mail server for business. - Axigen Service Providers MessagingMulti-tenant messaging for SPs looking to host hundreds to millions of business-level email users, based on a powerful mail server for ISP.- Axigen Free Mail ServerThe Axigen Free Mail Server is a great alternative to open source: it is a turnkey messaging solution with an amazing number of free email users. Currently, AXIGEN is distributed internationally by over 200 partners from 100 countries and manages email traffic for more than 11,000 companies with 6 million end-users.
- Eurolns Insurance Group — Euroins Insurance Group (EIG) is one of the independent groups operating in the Central and SEE insurance markets. The company is focused in providing a full range of insurance products in the areas of general, health and life insurance.
Investment Advisor of private equity fundsFunds under advisory contracts: Romanian-American Enterprise Fund, Balkan Accession Fund and Emerging Europe Accession FundMost extensive investment experience in the region (+15 years presence, + €250M equity invested)Lower mid-market specialists; Deals ranging from €5M to €15M; funds invested for a3-7 years termLargest team in SEE, comprising over 15 people, including investment professionals, finance specialists, legal advisers, and support staff.Blend of local and international perspective. Investment experience, expertise and contacts across relevant sectors and industriesFull time presence in Romania and Bulgaria
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Funding Round
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Elefant.ro — Elefant.ro is a Romanian online retailer that provides products for children and adults, for home and garden. The company offers more than 100,000 items: books, eBooks, toys, movies, music, eReadere, tablets, clothing products, footwear, accessories, cosmetics and products for children.
Underline Ventures partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. Underline Ventures invest at the seed stage (pre-seed, seed, late seed) along with other investors, which we can also help you find. Our average cheque is €500k.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Romania, Serbia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Turneo — Inspire travelers to browse and book all of their holiday activities, directly on your website
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- SaleSqueze — SaleSqueze visual CPQ helps you design visual product configurators and automate quote preparation so your customers can see what they are buying.
MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Supercede — Supercede is an independent reinsurance technology company that supports, rather than disintermediates, the traditional tripartite value chain. We offer a digital ecosystem for all reinsurance industry stakeholders to let them show what they can really do, unhindered by the burden of manual admin. Our product is a powerful, Lloyd’s-recognised,data-centric, global trading platform designed specifically for the reinsurance community of cedents, brokers and reinsurers. It offers the leading outwards analytics solution, in an intuitive placement platform, with access to a global reinsurance network.Supercede supports networking and collaboration, with group chat threads, rapid file sharing, and workflow tools linked to every placement. We help optimise the reinsurance lifecycle, from capturing single-entry, actuarial-grade data, to doing the deal, to driving on-going administration. If you haven’t met us yet, come and find us on www.supercede.com. We are a team of industry experts, technologists and strategists changing reinsurance for the better, for everyone.
- Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Andreas Cser - Partner @ Automat Ventures
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Investment focus
- Apps, Ad Retargeting, Subscription Service
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Romania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jampp — Jampp is the programmatic platform to grow mobile apps. We leverage machine learning to unlock mobile marketing and drive incremental ROI.
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- Pathfinder Medical — Pathfinder Medical is developing a novel electronic guidance system that will enable clinicians to connect blood vessels in a minimally invasive way.
Societatea de Investitii Financiare Transilvania S.A. (SIF Transilvania) is a closed-end financial investment company, self-managed in a dualist system and included in the category "Other collective investment undertakings (A.O.P.C.), with a diversified investment policy". The Company's share capital worth RON 109,214,333.20 iscomposed of 1,092,143,332 common shares issued at par value of RON 0.1/share. The shares are listed at the first category of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and have been traded on this market since November 1, 1999 under SIF3 symbol.
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Investment focus
- Data Mining, Manufacturing, Internet of Things
- Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- KFactory — KFactory is an Industry 4.0 start-up which disrupts the manufacturing industry and innovates the performance management of production line.
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