Top 15 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Romania in July 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Machine learning startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Romania in July 2025
Investor | Machine Learning Romania investments |
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Early Game Ventures | 6 |
Gapminder VC | 4 |
SeedBlink | 3 |
Sparking Capital | 2 |
Alfabeat | 2 |
Catalyst Romania | 2 |
Day One Capital | 2 |
Simple Capital | 1 |
Gecad Ventures | 1 |
MMC Ventures | 1 |
Hoxton Ventures | 1 |
Karma Ventures | 1 |
OTB Ventures | 1 |
European Union | 1 |
Neogen Capital | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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, which focuses on advancing feline longevity research to prevent or delay age-related illnesses in cats.
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
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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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
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 — Build smarter workouts, faster. Hyperhuman automates video creation, scales delivery and makes fitness content feel personal, inspiring and engaging for every user.
- 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.
Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Poland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 340M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.
- Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.
Catalyst Romania is a private equity and venture capital fund platform.
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Investment focus
- Software, Retail, Machine Learning
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Romania, United Kingdom, Serbia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
We are an early-stage technology investor, managing privately financed funds. We seek to find and join the most exciting Central Eastern European teams on their global mission.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Hungary, United States, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Qneiform — The Leading Financial Services Talent Data Platform
- Orqa — Orqa is a technology company enablling FPV (First Person View) and Remote Reality (RR) for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles.
- Whalebone — Whalebone offers zero disruption cybersecurity products to Telcos, ISPs, and enterprises.
Simple Capital
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Romania, United States
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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.
- Neobility — Neobility offers mobility solutions services.
- Hyperhuman — Build smarter workouts, faster. Hyperhuman automates video creation, scales delivery and makes fitness content feel personal, inspiring and engaging for every user.
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
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- 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.
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, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- BlackWall — Protect your web site from hacking, content theft, crawling, and cloning!
- ABEX — ABEX Capital focuses on algorithmic trading for digital assets using machine learning and high-frequency trading engines. It offers "Algorithmic Best Execution" solutions for institutional clients and is registered with the FCA for cryptoasset activities
- Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company.
The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
- Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
- Deblock — Forget your bank account: Get an IBAN, a Debit Card and a Non-custodial Crypto wallet. Deposit any crypto on your current account. Exchange Euro and Crypto without any limit.
karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Estonia, United States, Sweden
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- Patchstack — Keep your WordPress sites safe from vulnerable plugins & themes. Protect sites with virtual patching.
- Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
- WunderGraph — Full lifecycle API Management for (Federated) GraphQL. Schema registry, composition checks, analytics, metrics, tracing and routing. Deploy 100% on-prem or use our Managed Service. Apache 2.0 licensed, no vendor-lock.
OTB Ventures is a leading European VC focused on DeepTech with an unfair advantage in accessing Central and Eastern European (CEE) deal flow, investing in early growth, real tech startups (late Seed, Series A and B) that develop unique technologies in 4 verticals: SpaceTech, AI & Automation, FinTech and CybersecurityOTB Ventures wasestablished in 2017 and is currently the largest VC originating from the CEE, managing over $300M. OTB Ventures has two offices: Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Warsaw (Poland).
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Apheris — apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Höh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy andhas experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups. Through their work, they encountered barriers that limit progress within data driven industries: data is often stored in silos and most companies work in closed data ecosystems. Therefore, Apheris strives to connect the world’s data to extract better insights.
- Auriga Space — Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit
- Safe Intelligence — Safe Intelligence specializes in deep validation AI systems, focusing on enhancing the reliability of artificial intelligence models.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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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.
We're a venture studio specialised in marketplaces. We build, fund or buy tech companies with impact.
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- Software, Information Technology, B2C
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Romania, Greece, United Kingdom
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