Top 5 Sports Startup Investors in Romania in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Romania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Romania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Sports Startup Investors in Romania in May 2025

Investor	Sports Romania investments
SeedBlink	4
Sparking Capital	2
Early Game Ventures	2
Cleverage VentureCapital	2
Simple Capital	1

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Investment focus

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

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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.
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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Sparking Capital is an early stage fund backing entrepreneurs with unique industry insights, powerful vision and excellence in execution.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Romania

Portfolio highlights

KFactory — KFactory is an Industry 4.0 start-up which disrupts the manufacturing industry and innovates the performance management of production line.
Hyperhuman — Build smarter workouts, faster. Hyperhuman automates video creation, scales delivery and makes fitness content feel personal, inspiring and engaging for every user.
Ecotree Romania — EcoTree is the first digital platform in Romania that provides real and measurable benefits to the waste management industry by digitizing operational processes and legal documentation through business intelligence modules for data analysis and reporting, dedicated tendering modules and more, ensuring full transparency and traceability. In thisway, the startup actively contributes to a clean and sustainable environment. The company was founded in 2017 by Bogdan Andronache, Alexandru Petrescu, Marius Cîrstea and Dan Simota with the aim of digitizing the specific processes of waste collection and recycling, positioning itself as a player in the circular economy.

Early Game Ventures (EGV) is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups that jumpstart new industries in the emerging markets of Europe.Their philosophy is quite straightforward: they invest at the earliest stages in companies whose founders have vested interests, are coachable and address big markets. If the opportunity is real,they prefer to be the first institutional investor in such startups.EGV is also running a concierge accelerator, taking in only 5 or 6 startups per year for a very intensive and tailor-made program.