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Top 10 Recruiting Startup Investors in Romania in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Recruiting Startup Investors in Romania in July 2025

Investor	Recruiting Romania investments
Gapminder VC	5
SeedBlink	5
Sofia Angels Ventures	3
Oliver Hehl	2
Marius Ghenea	2
3TS Capital Partners	2
Catalyst Romania	1
Clever Capital	1
Malin-Iulian Stefanescu	1
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)	1

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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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Genezio — The type safe serverless platform for modern full-stack developers Everything you need to build apps that scale up to millions of users.
FintechOS — FintechOS extends your core, letting you innovate banking and insurance products, digital journeys, and back-office workflows without the cost or risk.
DRUID AI — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pago — Managing and paying utility bills, insurance, mobile top-ups and taxes takes too much time for many households in Europe. Pago simplifies these payments by adding automation where possible, using integrations with billers, insurers and online platforms to dramatically reduce the time needed for all these payments. The service is available in theB2C app called Pago and through B2B integrations by embedding Pago features in partner apps through SDK or API. Pago's services are used by over 500k monthly active users in Romania, Poland and Italy.
Bright Spaces — Reshaping the leasing experience for tenants, agents, and landlords using cutting-edge technologies. We deliver a unique showcasing experience 100% remotely.
Footprints AI — Footprints is one of the most advanced AI-driven Retail Media platforms in the world, helping physical retailers generate a new high profit margin revenue in 3 months or less.Retail Media will be a $100 billion market by 2025. This means that 1 in 4 dollars in digital ad spend will be on media platforms that leverage intent-based customerbehavior data.Footprints is part of the global Microsoft Pegasus program, a cohort of 12 high-impact AI startups worldwide with the most viable solutions to transform the physical retail model into an AI-driven business model.Footprints' unique technology enables physical retailers to turn anonymous traffic into profitable, predictable audiences by leveraging our proprietary offline-to-online behavioral data fusion, artificial intelligence and algorithmic automation.Since 2017, Footprints has pioneered AI technologies that enable physical retailers to: - Enable an automated omnichannel retail media service - Become the brand of choice in local communities - Expand more profitably into new local communitiesFootprints is currently working with Tier 1 retailers and retail properties to transform their offline and online visitors into retail media.Every day, Footprints orchestrates and processes billions of visits, searches, and purchases from offline and online retail environments for YOU, to meet your customers' needs better than ever before. The result? A seamless shopping experience, more customers, more sales, and a new high profit margin revenue.Retail Media is the #1 priority for retailers everywhere, who can now offer personalized and curated content to their customers around the world.

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Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Italy, Austria

Portfolio highlights

inHEART — inHEART is a spin-off from IHU Liryc and Inria, two top-tier research centers respectively in cardiac electrophysiology and digital science and technology, that develops software solutions for medical image analysis and cardiac modeling in heart rhythm disorders. inHEART vision is to make the bridge between radiology and cardiology to become aworldwide leader in image-guided diagnosis, therapy planning and navigation software solutions for heart rhythm disorders.
Ethermind — AI Knowledge Agents that capture & deliver expert answers. Stop losing critical knowledge when experts leave. Transform expertise into 24/7 accessible AI agents.
denxpert EHS&S software — Sustainability reporting software that simplifies ESG & EHS compliance, boosts reporting, and drives impact, all in one expert-built platform.

Oliver Hehl

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Apps
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Romania

Portfolio highlights

OWWN — wajve offers all financial services like banking, advice, and education in one app.
Jobful — Build your own talent community with Jobful. Connect, engage, and hire faster with smart tools that reduce costs and boost candidate quality.
deineStudienfinanzierung — deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.

• Partner of Catalyst Romania VC Fund (part of 3TS Capital Partners) - http://catalystromania.ro/ • “Investor of the Year in Romania 2016 and 2017" award by CESA with Catalyst Romania Fund • Serial entrepreneur and business-angel with successful investments in SEE, ranks in fortune Romanian surveys Capital, Forbes. • Experienceas an start-up entrepreneur with Flamingo, from zero revenues and capital to a $50M company, the largest IT product distribution network in Romania, in 7 years. Setting-up a Flamingo International group structure with direct operations in 7 SEE countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Yugoslavia) and one fully-fledged subsidiary in Holland, 1999 – 2001. • Manager of team of 500+ people with Flamingo, employees from various countries (majority Romanian), cultures, backgrounds and contributing to the creation of one of the best teams in the IT business in the Balkan region • Experience in private equity and venture capital investments. Deal-leader on 6 (123ContactForm, VectorWatch, Marketizator Friends, Intelligent IT/SmartBill, Smartdreamers, Vola.ro) out of 10 investments of Catalyst Romania Fund. • Exit track-record: VectorWatch, sold to FitBit early 2017, PCGarage, bought by Naspers/Emag in 2016; VikingProfil, bought by Pruzsinski of Poland, 2008, Flanco, successful exit in 2006, Flamingo, successful IPO in 2004, etc. • Co-Founder VentureConnect (regional matchmaking platform for tech start-up entrepreneurs and early-stage investors); President Romanian Association for the Online Stores (ARMO) • Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Business Ventures Professor, Maastricht School of Management EMBA program • Co-organizer Schoolforstartups Romania, the first SE European entrepreneurship school • Author of “Entrepreneurship”, the first Romanian book on entrepreneurship and TV dragon in the Romanian Dragons’ Den

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Romania, United Kingdom, Serbia

Portfolio highlights

Marketizator — Serious eCommerce players become customer-centric if they focus on what matters. Optimize your customer journey with data-driven decisions.
Vector Watch — Vector Watch's vision is to change the way people use smart watches and wearable technologies. The company was founded in 2013 by a team of former executives in the technology industry, backed by young engineers and multi-awarded designers for their projects in international innovation competitions.
SmartDreamers — The talent acquisition software that helps you reach and engage more, better candidates in record time through the use of Recruitment Marketing Automation.

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Romania, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.

Catalyst Romania is a private equity and venture capital fund platform.

Investment focus

Software, Retail, Machine Learning
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Romania, United Kingdom, Serbia

Portfolio highlights

Adapta Robotics — Creating, designing, and manufacturing adaptable robotic products that support automation efforts and technological progress.
Footprints AI — Footprints is one of the most advanced AI-driven Retail Media platforms in the world, helping physical retailers generate a new high profit margin revenue in 3 months or less.Retail Media will be a $100 billion market by 2025. This means that 1 in 4 dollars in digital ad spend will be on media platforms that leverage intent-based customerbehavior data.Footprints is part of the global Microsoft Pegasus program, a cohort of 12 high-impact AI startups worldwide with the most viable solutions to transform the physical retail model into an AI-driven business model.Footprints' unique technology enables physical retailers to turn anonymous traffic into profitable, predictable audiences by leveraging our proprietary offline-to-online behavioral data fusion, artificial intelligence and algorithmic automation.Since 2017, Footprints has pioneered AI technologies that enable physical retailers to: - Enable an automated omnichannel retail media service - Become the brand of choice in local communities - Expand more profitably into new local communitiesFootprints is currently working with Tier 1 retailers and retail properties to transform their offline and online visitors into retail media.Every day, Footprints orchestrates and processes billions of visits, searches, and purchases from offline and online retail environments for YOU, to meet your customers' needs better than ever before. The result? A seamless shopping experience, more customers, more sales, and a new high profit margin revenue.Retail Media is the #1 priority for retailers everywhere, who can now offer personalized and curated content to their customers around the world.
.Lumen — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.

Clever Capital invest in bold entrepreneurs and disruptive startups building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Romania, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oveit — Discover Oveit's innovative platform for ticketing, registration, and cashless payments. Elevate your events with seamless, secure, and user-friendly solutions.
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.
Plant an App — Plant an App is a low-code cloud-based platform for the rapid development and deployment of web applications.

Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father

Investment focus

Marketing, Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aggero — Turn every piece of video content into actionable insights for your next campaign
Tokinomo — Discover Tokinomo, the in-store interactive robotic promotional display helps FMCG products stand out on the shelves for an average 200% increase in sales.
Vatis Tech — Speech-to-text recognition API with custom AI models and real-time transcription for the English language. Get started now for FREE!

Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) is an investment fund manager whose funds focus on early-stage businesses from pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds of investment.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
Native Teams — With the Native Teams platform, you can easily hire anyone, anywhere as an employer or get an employed status if you're working as a freelancer. Explore our international EOR and PEO services and start working remotely with full compliance.
Native Teams — Native Teams is the all-in-one global platform for work payments and employment.We help businesses hire, pay, and manage talent across 85+ countries, without setting up local entities. Our platform handles global payroll, compliance, and taxes while empowering international teams and gig workers with flexible financial tools and multi-currencypayment solutions.Whether you're scaling your team or simplifying contractor management, Native Teams makes global hiring simple, secure, and cost-effective.Trusted by 1,500+ companies Operating in 85+ countries Up to 3x lower global employment costsGlobal payroll? Sorted. Compliance? Handled. Payments? Done.

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