Top 15 Software Angel Investors in Romania in November 2024
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 November 2024
Investor | Software Romania investments |
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Malin-Iulian Stefanescu | 5 |
Marius Ghenea | 4 |
Oliver Hehl | 2 |
Bianca Rusu | 2 |
Andra Malina Platon | 1 |
Septimiu Pop | 1 |
Constantine Goulimis | 1 |
Marius Istrate | 1 |
Ana Cinca | 1 |
Mihai Tarta | 1 |
Mihai Florin Talpos | 1 |
Luke McNeice | 1 |
Florin Pop | 1 |
Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
Daniel Dines | 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 — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.
- 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, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom
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.
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 — Welcome to Jobful, the leading talent community platform that helps companies build their own talent pools, engage with candidates, and reduce recruitment costs. Explore our solutions today.
- deineStudienfinanzierung — deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
- Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Daniel Dines is Co-founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI software worldwide. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is tomake software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace -- a vision dubbed One Robot for Every Person.Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era, helping businesses of all sizes digitize everyday business operations and apply AI to drive true digital transformation. This era brings tremendous value to businesses and new career opportunities for people – which is why Dines aims to democratize RPA via free training and software, as well through UiPath’s Academic Alliance program, which trains and certifies university students, youth, and traditionally underrepresented groups – with an eye toward preparing people for the jobs of the future.Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth – delivering intelligent automation solutions to thousands of companies around the world, including government agencies and many of the Fortune 500. He has raised more than $1B from top-tier venture capital firms, with a post-money valuation of $7B.Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting the 250,000 developers who are building automations on UiPath’s RPA platform.
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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.
- Goodlegal — Goodlegal is the One-Stop-Shop for all your Legal needs. Get an out-of-the-box Legal Infrastructure Platform to handle all your problems.
- Avi Medical — Avi Medical is a digital health care company that provides telemedicine services. Its platform enables patients to book appointments, manage their health data, and chat with the practitioner. The company uses data-driven medicine to provide patients and healthcare workers with a streamlined, more modern experience.
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