Top 5 Marketplace Angel Investors in Romania in September 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Marketplace startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Marketplace Angel Investors in Romania in September 2025
Investor | Marketplace Romania investments |
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Ștefan Muscalu | 1 |
Shane Gray | 1 |
Mircea Ilea | 1 |
Paul Robert Cary | 1 |
Marius Ghenea | 1 |
Ștefan Muscalu is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Shane Gray is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
Mircea Ilea
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Investment focus
- Logistics, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Frisbo — Sell more, in new markets with borderless order fulfillment and smart logistics. Curated warehouses, best shipping deals, all in one dashboard.
Classically trained pianist & composer, 20 years working in strategy, sales, marketing & startups. History degree, speaks 6 languages. Born in Africa, educated in the US. NCAA Division 1 Athlete. Award winner at Columbia Business School.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ride Colibri — Discover the Colibri M22, the ultimate folding electric motorbike with a 200 km range, swappable batteries, and a sleek retro-modern design. Built for adventure, urban commutes, and everything in between. Explore, configure, and ride into the future today!
• 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.
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