Top 15 Software Angel Investors in Romania in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Software Angel Investors in Romania in January 2026
| Investor | Software Romania investments |
|---|---|
| Malin-Iulian Stefanescu | 5 |
| Marius Ghenea | 3 |
| Bianca Rusu | 2 |
| Oliver Hehl | 2 |
| Florin Pop | 1 |
| Daniel Dines | 1 |
| Mihai Florin Talpos | 1 |
| Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
| Septimiu Pop | 1 |
| Marius Istrate | 1 |
| Luke McNeice | 1 |
| Mihai Tarta | 1 |
| Andra Malina Platon | 1 |
| Ana Cinca | 1 |
| Constantine Goulimis | 1 |
Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father
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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!
• 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
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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.
Entrepreneur & angel investor in disruptive startups building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Education
- Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Romania, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- BRIO — Brio is more than an idea whose time has come — it’s a fully fledged DeepTech SaaS educational platform that was conceptualised according to the most rigorous global standards. One of those few fortunate businesses where profit and social purpose go hand in hand, Brio is a first mover in a market of 3 million students (in Romania alone), offeringcore testing products for grades 1-12, for the National Evaluation and the Baccalaureate.
- SecurifAI — SecurifAI develop AI systems for real-time video analysis in order to detect suspect behavior, potential attacks, and deliver timely alerts.
Oliver Hehl
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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.
Florin Pop is the founder of Primainvest and investor of Telios, Foodprints, Aiva and others.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Daniel Dines is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer of UiPath. Daniel Dines attended the University of Bucharest.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
- Trickest — Add SEO description here.
Mihai Florin Talpos is entrepreneur, founder of the IT Informal School and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
- Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
- Hyphen SCS — Building India's Biggest warehousing & Fulfilment Platform
Septimiu Pop is HORECA entrepreneur and owner of DaVinci restaurant, Square hotel and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Marius Istrate
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- parol — A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients.
- The Brief — The Brief is the AI agency for marketers — a platform powered by intelligent agents that help teams create, launch, and optimize campaigns faster. Designed to replace scattered tools and manual workflows, The Brief connects every stage of the marketing process in one continuous loop. By automating the busywork and amplifying creativity, it givesmarketers more time to focus on strategy, storytelling, and ideas that drive results.
- Pythagora — Build full-stack applications with AI that go beyond demos. With real debugging tools and production features, Pythagora helps you launch apps that actually work.
Luke McNeice is the founder of Lola Tech, multi-exit techpreneur from UK.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Mihai Tarta is the founder of Synex Media, IT entrepreneur and investor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Remote Butler — Remote Butler provides an application that helps to accepts orders in the native language of abroad visitors.
Andra Malina Platon
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- parol — A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients.
Ana Cinca
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- parol — A platform that streamlines clinical procedures, records the consultation in real time, files all the paperwork for the doctor, and brings in more patients.
Constantine is one of the founders (in 1985) of Greycon. Constantine was born in Greece and studied mathematics at Cambridge (BA, MA) and Control Systems at Imperial College (M.Sc.). He completed his Ph.D. in combinatorial optimisation, the cutting stock problem also at Imperial. He is particularly proud that some of the code he wrote then is stillin daily production use at many plants around the world, as part of Greycon's X-Trim.In the Greek army he learned, among other things, exactly how many chickens it takes to feed a regiment and has amassed collection of army stories to tell. He has also served as Deputy Director of the Industrial Systems Group at Imperial College. During 2010 he also consulted with the Greek Ministry of Finance, advising on how tax collection could be improved; the proposals were adopted a month later. In November 2013 he attended the 3-week Advanced Leadership Programme at Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed
- Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Instant Factoring — Instant Factoring is a fintech factoring platform providing liquidity to small entrepreneurs in max 24h, powered by robot-underwriting, transactions transparency using the blockchain, and developing machine learning based credit risk algorithms. We enable entrepreneurs to reap the rewards of their hard work immediately, turning their invoices intocash as the easiest step to getting the money they need quickly, without the burden of bureaucracy, extremely long analysis and response time.Instant Factoring’s mission is to enable the development of small businesses by providing them with flexible and innovative financing solutions.The company estimates that more than 15.000 small businesses will use its services by the end of 2022, with an average value of invoice financed of approximately EUR 2.000. Distinguishing features of the platform include: the unique and patented internal credit-scoring tool, leveraging artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to provide fast credit decisions; registering the invoice portfolio ledger on the blockchain as an anti-fraud / double sale of an invoice, while in the near future we intend to implement smart contracts and payment ledger on the blockchain. Data and information is gathered from multiple sources and processed efficiently to rate customer invoices, and provide up front transparency on pricing. The internal algorithm is continuously improving through machine learning, bringing significant competitive advantage to the business.
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