# Top 15 Software Angel Investors in Romania in June 2026

## Malin-Iulian Stefanescu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Internet

Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father

## Marius Ghenea
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

•	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

## Marius Istrate
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software

Former Chief People Officer of UiPath, from 2017 until 2020. 
Former CEO of SkillValue, from 2014 until 2016.
Angel Investor and VC Investor. Focus on Enterprise SaaS, Productivity Tech, Dev Tools, Cloud, AI & Automation.

## Bianca Rusu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cluj-napoca, Cluj, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Education

Entrepreneur & angel investor in disruptive startups building the future through technology.

## Oliver Hehl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Financial Services, Apps

Oliver Hehl

## Florin Pop
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence

Florin Pop is the founder of Primainvest and investor of Telios, Foodprints, Aiva and others.

## Daniel Dines
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dover, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Mihai Florin Talpos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence

Mihai Florin Talpos is entrepreneur, founder of the IT Informal School and investor.

## Mihai Tarta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence

Mihai Tarta is the founder of Synex Media, IT entrepreneur and investor.

## Luke McNeice
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence

Luke McNeice is the founder of Lola Tech, multi-exit techpreneur from UK.

## Septimiu Pop
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence

Septimiu Pop is HORECA entrepreneur and owner of DaVinci restaurant, Square hotel and investor.

## Andra Malina Platon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Andra Malina Platon

## Ana Cinca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Ana Cinca

## Constantine Goulimis
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.
