# Dan Mihaescu

> Dan Mihaescu is a seed investor at GapMinder VC backing Software and Information Technology. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GapMinder VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gapminder-vc)
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danmihaescu/

Dan Mihaescu is a seed investor at GapMinder VC in Bucharest focused on Software and Information Technology. Dan Mihaescu is the founding partner at GapMinder Venture Partners.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 36% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 21% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 14% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Romania | 1 | 7% |

## 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 |  |
| Druid AI | DRUID is a high-tech company that develops an AI-powered, no-code, chatbot authoring platform that allows citizen developers to create, configure and deploy natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners, and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations. The platform features a proprietarymulti-language NLU (Natural Language Understanding) engine which identifies user intents, sentiment, and system entities, a powerful Connector Designer which integrates with any enterprise app (REST/SOAP APIs, SQL/Oracle, ERPs, CRMs, RPA). | $30M | Series B | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Cyscale | At Cyscale, we believe that a safer Cloud means a safer World. We need to do something extraordinary to have a better, easier and more secure way of designing & deploying any Cloud Infrastructure in AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and even Alibaba Cloud.That is why we create amazing tools so that everybody canbuild & deploy cloud infrastructure with security in mind, knowing the costs upfront, while maintaining continuous regulatory compliance. All done automatically with just a few clicks.We are the first Cloud Management, Security and Compliance company empowering both regular people and cloud professionals with visual tools to meet this level of cloud automation and security.We're Cyscale, born in the Cloud to protect the Cloud!Join our team or pre-register for the product launch: https://cyscale.com | $3.2M | Seed | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Druid AI | DRUID is a high-tech company that develops an AI-powered, no-code, chatbot authoring platform that allows citizen developers to create, configure and deploy natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners, and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations. The platform features a proprietarymulti-language NLU (Natural Language Understanding) engine which identifies user intents, sentiment, and system entities, a powerful Connector Designer which integrates with any enterprise app (REST/SOAP APIs, SQL/Oracle, ERPs, CRMs, RPA). | $15M | Series A | May 03, 2022 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Druid AI | DRUID is a high-tech company that develops an AI-powered, no-code, chatbot authoring platform that allows citizen developers to create, configure and deploy natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners, and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations. The platform features a proprietarymulti-language NLU (Natural Language Understanding) engine which identifies user intents, sentiment, and system entities, a powerful Connector Designer which integrates with any enterprise app (REST/SOAP APIs, SQL/Oracle, ERPs, CRMs, RPA). | $2.5M | Series A | Jan 12, 2021 |  |
| Cyscale | At Cyscale, we believe that a safer Cloud means a safer World. We need to do something extraordinary to have a better, easier and more secure way of designing & deploying any Cloud Infrastructure in AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, VMWare, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and even Alibaba Cloud.That is why we create amazing tools so that everybody canbuild & deploy cloud infrastructure with security in mind, knowing the costs upfront, while maintaining continuous regulatory compliance. All done automatically with just a few clicks.We are the first Cloud Management, Security and Compliance company empowering both regular people and cloud professionals with visual tools to meet this level of cloud automation and security.We're Cyscale, born in the Cloud to protect the Cloud!Join our team or pre-register for the product launch: https://cyscale.com | $487.5K | Pre-Seed | Jan 10, 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. | $329K | Pre-Seed | Sep 28, 2020 |  |
| 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. | $7M | Series A | Jan 04, 2020 |  |
| 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 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LAUNCHub Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchub) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OTB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otb-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alfabeat](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alfabeat) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Earlybird Digital East Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-digital-east-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About GapMinder VC

VC Fund · Bucharest, Romania

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

5 contacts available at GapMinder VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cristian Dascalu | VC Fund Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristian-dascalu |
| Dan Mihaescu | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-mihaescu |
| Cosmin Ochisor | VC Fund Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cosmin-ochisor |
| Robert Herscovici | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-herscovici-dbb3 |
| Sergiu Rosca | Co-Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sergiu-rosca-27c3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Mihaescu invest in?

Dan Mihaescu invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Mihaescu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Mihaescu closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 14 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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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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