GapMinder is a Venture Capital Fund, targeting IT Software and Services start-ups in Romania and Central Eastern Europe. We sit at the heart of the fastest growing European country with a distinctive technological ecosystem being the third global market for quality and speed of Internet connectivity. In a dynamic and growing start-up ecosystem, we are committed to support passionate and thoughtful founders to become global entrepreneurs and to rewrite the place of Romania in the global tech arena.

Catalyst Romania, one of the leading technology-focused venture capital firms in Romania, launched its first EUR 15 million fund in 2012, as the first fund of its type designed for Romania. Managed by a local team based in Bucharest, the fund will continue to make early growth capital investments in SMEs based in Romania and other countries in the region. Our team of highly qualified experts, with entrepreneurial and financial background, become active business partners of the portfolio companies.

Black Sea Capital specialized in mergers, takeovers, management or leveraged buyouts, divestitures, turnaround management and strategy advisory. As a boutique VC firm, we support the founders to get where they want and need to be. Success means not only getting acquired, financing or something like that, but also providing capital effectively to people doing the real work and, most importantly, bringing thoroughness, collaboration and substantial value-add post-investment.

Business Angels Romania wishes to increase awareness and promote business angels investments as a proper option for business start-ups. The community is a source of information and expertise that helps investors and entrepreneurs understand the market with its new developments, trends, and eases up the access to relevant sources of funding.

AmCham Romania is the business association of choice for advocacy and business growth in Romania! A leading business association in Romania, AmCham now represents over 450 members, U.S., international and Romanian companies whose investments in Romania exceed USD 20 billion and have created over 250.000 jobs. AmCham Romania is firmly committed to facilitating an open dialogue between the business community and central authorities, promoting measures and priorities for an improved business climate and increased economic competitiveness for Romania, at a regional, European and global level.