# Alex Plugaru

> Alex Plugaru is a seed investor in New York backing Software and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/313373
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/humanfromearth

Alex Plugaru is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gorgias.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Infrastructure | 1 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 33% |
| Management Information Systems | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |
| Finland | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Swarmia | Data-driven superpowers for software teams | $11.5M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 | https://www.swarmia.com/ |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 | https://hookdeck.com |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $320K | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2021 | https://hookdeck.com |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DIG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dig-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angels of Many](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-of-many) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arbour & Renaud Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arbour-renaud-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Karma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Plugaru invest in?

Alex Plugaru invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Infrastructure startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Alex Plugaru last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Plugaru closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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