19 Jul Countries Romania Turkish Metis Ventures enters CEE and appoints Romanian Principal The Istanbul-based Metis Ventures has entered CEE to invest in 8-10 startups within the next 12 months. Its ticket is up to €3 million for AI-based startups in cybersecurity, finTech, climate tech, and digital health. The fund also appointed Mircea Ghita,
30 May Countries Romania Catalyst Romania exits SmartBill with sale to Visma The Bucharest-based Catalyst Romania Fund I has sold its remaining shares in SmartBill, a Romanian provider of cloud-based invoicing, inventory, and accounting services, to the Norwegian Group Visma. The deal amount was undisclosed. About Smartbill The deal details The journey of growth
09 May Countries Romania Romanian VC firm Early Game Ventures launches its €60M Fund II A Bucharest-based Early Game Ventures Fund, has announced the launch of its new €60 million VC fund that will invest in early-stage startups in CEE. The ticket size is expected to be up to €6 million. About Early Game Ventures
26 Feb Countries Romania Romanian GapMinder V launches a new €80 million fund GapMinder, a venture capital firm targeting IT software and services startups in Romania and Central Eastern Europe, has announced the launch of its second, €80 million fund. It will support Romanian tech startup with initial ticket size of €2.5 million.
20.11.23 Countries Romania Mebster, FRONTIER, and WakeZ are among the winners of EIT Health InnoStars 2023 Recently, the EIT Health InnoStars Grand Final of 2023 was held in the city of Milan. Seven finalists were announced as the recipients of smart money to launch or develop their healthtech-dedicated products during several stages of the competition. Romanian
15.11.23 Countries Romania Underline Ventures closes its $20M first fund Bucharest-based Underline Ventures, a fund launched by How To Web founder Bogdan Iordache, has announced the closing of its first fund at $20 million, The Recursive reports. In 2022, AIN.Capital wrote about the launch of the Underline Ventures first fund.
15.03.23 Countries Romania INNO launches LevelUP, a health and life sciences accelerator in Romania INNO, the North-West Regional Development Agency’s department, announced the launch of the first accelerator in Romania focused on health and life sciences startups, LevelUP. The accelerator aims to offer expert assistance to teams looking to hasten the commercialization, validation, promotion,
30.01.23 Countries Romania Romanian venture report 2022: 73 transactions and €101.7M in total funding Despite the economic turmoil, Romanian startups hovered over the global tech scene starting with the second half of 2022. The volume of deals nearly reached the previous year’s record — €101.7 million, compared to €116.9 million in 2021. This supports
19.12.22 Countries Romania Luxoft opens two new offices in Romania The tech company Luxoft announced the opening of two new offices in Romania. They are located in the cities Iași and Cluj-Napoca. “Our luxofters from Iași and Cluj can now enjoy the benefits of a truly flexible workplace that perfectly
16.12.22 Countries Romania Startup of the Day: Romanian legal infrastructure platform Goodlegal Goodlegal is a Burcharest-based legal infrastructure platform designed to offer an out-of-the-box legal operations framework for any company. The platform provides access to document management system, document lifecycle, e-sign among other services.
