GapMinder VC
VC Fund
Bucharest, Romania
GapMinder VC is a VC fund in Bucharest focused on Software and Information Technology. 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
- Total investments:
- 76
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 59%
- Fund size:
- $87M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries GapMinder VC invests in
Stages GapMinder VC invests in
Countries GapMinder VC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $213k–$4.7M
- Pre-Seed
- $83k–$564k
- Series A
- $2.5M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (17%)
- Information Technology 8 (11%)
- SaaS 5 (7%)
- FinTech 4 (5%)
- E-Commerce 4 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (16%)
- Series A 4 (5%)
- Funding Round 4 (5%)
- Series B 2 (3%)
Country
- Romania 19 (25%)
- United Kingdom 5 (7%)
- United States 4 (5%)
- Luxembourg 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cristian Dascalu
VC Fund Partner
|
VC Fund Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Dan Mihaescu
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Cosmin Ochisor
VC Fund Partner
|
VC Fund Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Robert Herscovici
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Sergiu Rosca
Co-Founding Partner
|
Co-Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Codeplain is an AI-powered code generation service that produces production-ready software from specifications written in Plain language. | $3M / Seed / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| DesignVerse is an AI platform that develops enterprise software using company documentation and internal rules. | $5.5M / Seed / May 13, 2026 | ||
| InsiderCX is a voice of customer of platform that capture, analyze and act on customer feedback. They provide self-service analysis tool that allow users to unlock the value of CX insights. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Etiq is a Data Science Copilot taking the time to develop and debug AI models from weeks to minutes | $1M / Seed / Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients. | $1.3M / Seed / Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Genezio is a serverless platform for building full-stack web and mobile applications in a scalable and cost-efficient way. It allows developers to write their backend logic in classes and design their frontend using their preferred programming language. Genezio then takes care of deploying and scaling the application, so developers can focus onwriting code.Genezio is based on a serverless architecture, which means that developers don't have to worry about managing servers or infrastructure. Instead, genezio automatically scales the application up or down based on demand, so developers only pay for the resources they use. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| Siena AI is a developer of an autonomous chat platform that aims to transform the way it runs and interacts with consumers by combining human empathy and intelligent automation. The platform provides capabilities such as product information, order tracking, address changes, returns and product exchanges, subscription and retention management,allowing firms to conduct customer care and social media interactions autonomously. | $4.7M / Seed / Nov 16, 2023 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Undelucram is a recruitment agency. | $1.1M / Seed / Jun 14, 2023 | ||
| See all 76 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does GapMinder VC invest in?
GapMinder VC invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Romania. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is GapMinder VC's check size?
GapMinder VC typically joins rounds of $213k–$4.7M at Seed, $83k–$564k at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GapMinder VC participates in.
How do I contact GapMinder VC?
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Who are the partners at GapMinder VC?
The team at GapMinder VC includes Cristian Dascalu (VC Fund Partner), Dan Mihaescu (Founding Partner) and Cosmin Ochisor (VC Fund Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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