# Dan Lupu

> Dan Lupu is a Series A investor at Earlybird Venture Capital backing Artificial Intelligence. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital)
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-lupu-62361/

Dan Lupu is a Series A investor at Earlybird Venture Capital in Bucharest focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Venture Partner, Earlybird Venture Capital Partner, Earlybird Digital East Fund

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 28% |
| Robotics | 3 | 17% |
| Software | 3 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 17% |
| Logistics | 2 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 22% |
| Series B | 4 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 22% |
| Romania | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FintechOS | FintechOS is driving a paradigm shift in the way financial products and services are created by making banks and insurers truly customer-centric. We consolidate critical data from multiple sources like existing databases and ecosystem APIs and these rich data insights are automatically plugged into every step of the customer journey to create trulypersonalized offerings. Our tech integrates seamlessly with existing IT systems and our low code tools quickly empower organizations to design personalized customer experiences. These capabilities free our customers to tailor products, services, and interactions to a segment of one, increase ROI and decrease time-to-market. | $60M | Series B | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Sessions | Sessions is a platform for one-of-a-kind meetings and webinars. Sessions provides marketers and sales professionals with everything they need to avoid the Frazzle and conduct effective meetings that constantly wow with a combination of automatic scheduling, video conferencing, embedded files, and apps that keep everything on schedule. | $1.6M | Seed | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| Anari AI | Anari AI is the next-generation computation platform for AI. It pioneers reconfigurable AI for customers to personalize their infrastructure in one click; it also enables chip designers to rapidly create and deploy their solutions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Sessions | Sessions is a platform for one-of-a-kind meetings and webinars. Sessions provides marketers and sales professionals with everything they need to avoid the Frazzle and conduct effective meetings that constantly wow with a combination of automatic scheduling, video conferencing, embedded files, and apps that keep everything on schedule. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $21M | Series B | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Brightpick | Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The innovative Brightpick robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch, as well as stock replenishment. Brightpick Autopicker, the company’s award-winning flagship robot, is the only mobile robotin the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in warehouse aisles. The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to reduce their fulfillment labor to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, OH, Brightpick has more than 200 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed across the US and Europe. | $21M | Series B | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Brightpick | Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The innovative Brightpick robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch, as well as stock replenishment. Brightpick Autopicker, the company’s award-winning flagship robot, is the only mobile robotin the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in warehouse aisles. The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to reduce their fulfillment labor to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, OH, Brightpick has more than 200 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed across the US and Europe. | $21M | Series B | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| FintechOS | FintechOS is driving a paradigm shift in the way financial products and services are created by making banks and insurers truly customer-centric. We consolidate critical data from multiple sources like existing databases and ecosystem APIs and these rich data insights are automatically plugged into every step of the customer journey to create trulypersonalized offerings. Our tech integrates seamlessly with existing IT systems and our low code tools quickly empower organizations to design personalized customer experiences. These capabilities free our customers to tailor products, services, and interactions to a segment of one, increase ROI and decrease time-to-market. | $60M | Series B | Apr 20, 2021 |  |
| FintechOS | FintechOS is driving a paradigm shift in the way financial products and services are created by making banks and insurers truly customer-centric. We consolidate critical data from multiple sources like existing databases and ecosystem APIs and these rich data insights are automatically plugged into every step of the customer journey to create trulypersonalized offerings. Our tech integrates seamlessly with existing IT systems and our low code tools quickly empower organizations to design personalized customer experiences. These capabilities free our customers to tailor products, services, and interactions to a segment of one, increase ROI and decrease time-to-market. | $14M | Series A | Dec 10, 2019 |  |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $9.9M | Series A | Dec 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Earlybird Digital East Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-digital-east-fund) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [LAUNCHub Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchub) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [GapMinder VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gapminder-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IPM Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ipm-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OTB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otb-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Earlybird Venture Capital

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

5 contacts available at Earlybird Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andre Retterath | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-retterath |
| Annette Schiering | Financial Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annette-schiering |
| Catrin Schmidt | Team Assistant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catrin-schmidt |
| Cem Sertoglu | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-cem-sertoglu |
| Christian Nagel | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-christian-nagel |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Lupu invest in?

Dan Lupu invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dan Lupu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Lupu closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 18 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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