Top 15 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Romania
A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Romania
Investor | Media (entertainment) Romania investments |
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Early Game Ventures | 5 |
Sparking Capital | 4 |
SeedBlink | 2 |
LAUNCHub Ventures | 2 |
Sherry Coutu | 2 |
Arts Alliance | 1 |
3TS Capital Partners | 1 |
Long Venture Partners | 1 |
Kirov Group Ventures | 1 |
Gapminder VC | 1 |
Marius Ghenea | 1 |
Credo Ventures | 1 |
Andreas Cser | 1 |
Neogen Capital | 1 |
StartersHub | 1 |
Early Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups that create new industries and build the infrastructure for innovation in the emerging markets of Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United States
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.
- OxidOS — OxidOS supplies a Secure Operating System and Development Tools for OEMs and auto software creators.
- 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.
Sparking Capital is a Business Angel, investing in early-stage startups. It focuses on pre-seed and seed investments to empower businesses.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-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.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SoCyber — SoCyber provides services in the field of Information and Communication Technology, specializing in Cybersecurity services. The main business lines are security as a service, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and IT audits. After being a successful service company for several years, SoCyber developed a holistic vulnerability managementsolution "Kikimora.io" that makes the vulnerability management process centralised, transparent and easy to follow and understand. It enables companies to prioritise the remediation of vulnerabilities and address their security issues in a timely manner. The solution saves companies time and money by eliminating the need for repeated security testing that shows the same vulnerabilities.
- Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
- Affirma Biotech — Affirma Biotech develops new orally available immunotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of severe infections and cancer
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.
Sherry Coutu is an angel investor and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.As an entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully sold two businesses in the financial services industry. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) has operations in more than 70 countries. The second was floated in 2000 on London and Nasdaqand the company was valued at more than $1 billion before being acquired (by AMP plc). Sherry is active in early stage investing and has raised several rounds of venture capital and public equity totaling more than $200 million.Sherry has decades of experience serving companies which range from fast growth private early stage to public and boards with turnover of more than £ 1 bn.She is a frequent public speaker, a national judge of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, and presents regularly at the top business schools. She specialises in consumer, internet, information services and clean energy.Current university affiliations include Cambridge University and Harvard Business School. Charitable / Government affiliations include the Prince's Trust, Cancer Research UK and NESTA.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Romania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Topia — The Topia Global Talent Mobility platform enables businesses to deliver mobility as part of a broader talent and business strategy with enhanced employee experiences. This drives competitive advantage by ensuring the right people in the right place at the right time. The Topia platform automates the entire global talent mobility process, fromscenario-based planning, compliance risk management, expat payroll, reporting and more. Topia powers global talent mobility programs for many of the world's most trusted brands, including Schneider Electric, Dell, Veolia, Equinor, AXA.
- FullCircl — FullCircl is a Customer Lifecycle Intelligence (CLI) platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. Better business, faster.
Arts Alliance is a venture capital organisation supporting a growing network of entrepreneurs. They have a "hands on approach" to investment and provide both creative talent and strategic advice to Portfolio Companies in the technology and services, and communications sectors.
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Investment focus
- Advertising, Mobile, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Spoonshot — Spoonshot's technology leverages food science and artificial intelligence to predict consumer tastes and food trends. We've built our several solutions from this core technology to solve some of the food & beverage industry's key challenges.
- Aprila Bank — Aprila is a product- and technology company offering innovative financial solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Aprila’s API-based technology platform is connected to around 130,000 SMEs through partnership agreements with leading online accounting systems and other relevant system providers.
- Growth Street — Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts.They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the booksmeans delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.
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.
- JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
- Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Personalization
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Romania, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pathrise — Pathrise is an online program for tech professionals that provides 1-on-1 mentorship, training and advice to help you land your next job. On top of that, we're built around aligned incentives.
- Firework — Discover the future of video commerce & shoppable videos. Engage in a seamless shoppable experience with Firework. Start driving engagement & sales today.
- SparkLayer B2B eCommerce — SparkLayer is a powerful B2B eCommerce solution that gives you an easy way to enable B2B functionality on your website. Rapid to setup, simple to use, and integrates beautifully with your existing systems.
Corporate venture capital fund of the Kirovsky Zavod
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, PaaS
- Seed
- Russian Federation, Serbia, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Ivitech — IVITECH financial platform works in SEA region and develop unique scoring models for risk evaluation and risk management.
- HintEd.me — Digital Adoption Platform. Employees software training, Customers onboarding, support automation. Easily create on-screen step-by-step guides for web and Windows applications
- Pro Control — Pro Control specializes in the field of industrial automation, electric motor drives and electrical installations.
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.
- 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.
- DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
• 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.
We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
- Kurs Orbital — Kurs Orbital expands human activities beyond Earth
- Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
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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.
We're a venture studio specialised in marketplaces. We build, fund or buy tech companies with impact.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, B2C
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Romania, Greece, United Kingdom
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An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to distrup the system for good.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
- IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
- PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
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