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Rubik Hub
Rubik Hub's mission is to develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem of North-East Romania by connecting, educating, empowering people to create successful global businesses. Its bold vision is to achieve a world where people reach the best version of themselves and drive positive impact.
Risky Business
The first pre-seed and accelerator fund in Romania. We invest in relentless founders with bold visions. Risky Business is established to support promising early stage startups with the resources to grow into regional and global, sustainable tech firms. In addition to intensive and high-quality consulting services focused on product development, scaling, and strategy, it also offers financial investment. It is the first structure in Romania targeted towards pre-seed support, and an innovate step forward in supporting the growth and sustaining of Romanian startups.
Gapminder VC
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.
Early Game Ventures
Early Game Ventures (EGV) invests in startups that jumpstart new industries in the emerging markets of Europe. Our philosophy is quite straightforward: we invest at the earliest stages in companies whose founders have vested interests, are coachable and address big markets. If the opportunity is real, we prefer to be the first institutional investor in such startups.
Catalyst Romania
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.