# Clever Capital

> Clever Capital is a VC fund backing Software, B2B and SMS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clevercapital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/clevercapitaleu
- Website: https://clevercapital.eu

Clever Capital is a private investment vehicle based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania that generally invests in early stage technology focused startups, including fintech and blockchain projects, and mentors them to support accelerated growth locally and internationally, as well as help them reach next investment rounds.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $132k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 75% |
| B2B | 2 | 25% |
| SMS | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Romania | 2 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| iFactor | iFactor is an online portal that helps to sell their invoices for immediate cash and asset protofolio with a low-risk investments for SMEs. | $921.8K | Equity Crowdfunding | Feb 19, 2021 |  |
| Oveit | The problem: There is no easy and reliable way to set up closed loop economies and payments. Closed loop economies can empower ecosystems, from festivals, to venues, to smart cities. However, setting this type of systems has been historically expensive and hard to implement, given the cost of hardware, security concerns. As globalization extends,a new way of empowering local economies needs to be used. We think we can do this with our closed loop payments system, which is based on a combination of private and public blockchain and uses machine learning algorithms for fraud detection and prevention.From a consumer point of view a local closed loop economy can now be easily set up by just starting an account online and downloading a mobile app.Our solution: Oveit provides a closed loop payments solution for businesses, events or local governments. With Oveit they can easily become a local payment processor, getting access to local payment processing, decreasing costs, improving revenue and gaining data insights.We use a combination of private and public blockchain, in order to secure and distribute data. On demand, we allow customers to access their data. They can see how funds are used and how they interact with to the ecosystem's vendors, marketing sponsors and more. | $603.9K | Seed | Jan 18, 2021 |  |
| Plant an App | Plant an App is a low-code cloud-based platform for the rapid development and deployment of web applications. | $1M | Seed | Jan 07, 2021 |  |
| Nifty Learning | Nifty Learning supports companies to use their learning budget efficiently by resolving the pains of the administrative flow. We provide a training administration platform for companies from consolidated industries such as manufacturing, energy, financial services and healthcare. |  |  | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Nifty Learning | Nifty Learning supports companies to use their learning budget efficiently by resolving the pains of the administrative flow. We provide a training administration platform for companies from consolidated industries such as manufacturing, energy, financial services and healthcare. | $113K | Convertible Note | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Cartloop | Growing an ecommerce brand often equals with automating as much as possible. But automation means losing a key piece of the ecommerce experience: a meaningful connection with customers. At Cartloop we help brands connect with their audience through 1:1 interactions, allowing them to grow and scale without losing the human touch. | $132K | Seed | Dec 22, 2020 |  |
| Crikle | Crikle is a browser-based sales enablement platform transforming the remote selling experience in the age of distance selling. Crikle brings together five core components of the selling process - customer engagement, feedback management, sales enablement, content management and sales analytics. With Crikle, salespeople can easily engage, pitch andcommunicate with their customers consistently and effectively - always asking the right questions and handling all objections to shorten sales cycles and accelerate revenue opportunities.The platform offers a personalised ‘human touch’ by enabling salespeople to present, engage, and manage their sales pitches from a single space. | $636K | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| Jobful | Jobful is a recruitment platform through gamification where candidates create profiles based on skills tested and developed through playing. Their professional experiences are confirmed by psychometric tests so that employers can easily find the right people for their company.Jobful offers the possibility for those looking for jobs to play inorder to discover their skills. | $575K | Seed | Nov 24, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SeedBlink](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedblink) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Republic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/republic-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Roca X](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roca-x) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TBNR Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tbnr-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Clever Capital invest in?

Clever Capital invests primarily in Software, B2B and SMS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Clever Capital's check size?

Clever Capital typically joins rounds of $132k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Clever Capital participates in.

### When did Clever Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Clever Capital closed in Feb 2021. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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