Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Romania in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Romania in January 2025

Investor	Payments Romania investments
Gecad Ventures	3
SeedBlink	2
Gapminder VC	2
Elevator Ventures	1
Early Game Ventures	1
Catalyst Romania	1
Legion Ventures	1
3TS Capital Partners	1
Mozaik Investments	1
Malin-Iulian Stefanescu	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Our commitment, experience, and perseverance have fueled the creativity of some of the most exciting start-ups in Europe.

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.

All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.

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.

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

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.

Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital Entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Its focus is on early stage and growth investments in fintechs, enabling technologies in Central/Eastern Europe. Discover more!

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
SESAMm — SESAMm is the leading provider of natural language processing and machine learning solutions and analytics for Investment firms and corporations.
GoUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.

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.

Investment focus

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.

Catalyst Romania is a private equity and venture capital fund platform.

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.

Legion Ventures is at the epicenter of the blockchain tokenized revolution – connected with leaders, funds, influencers, governments, companies, technology, and trends that are key to success in this market. They are intimately familiar with the complexities of today’s economic convergence around blockchain, digital securities, crypto trading,tokenizing real-world assets, liquidity solutions, global regulation, investor and customer behavior patterns, and the complex web of relationships tying decentralized systems to a better world. This expertise allows us to build the right plan for each stage in your blockchain journey.A sound finance and marketing strategy, along with sharp vision are must-haves in order to disrupt or keep up with disruption in the blockchain tokenized ecosystem. Legion Ventures’ provides real-time tailored services in order to reach to an innovative ever-changing world of democratized data.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Italy, Spain, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Coinzix — Coinzix - one of the most convenient and reliable crypto platforms with guaranteed liquidity and low commissions. Come in and make sure.
VisionGame — VisionGame brings the traditional game publishing experience, boosted for the blockchain. VisionGame provides unique products, technical and creative services, all to support the ever-growing gaming blockchain industry, raising the bar one game at a time.
MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.

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.