# Top 20 Financial Services Startup Investors in Romania in May 2026

## Gapminder VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

GapMinder plans to invest and support the most disruptive and bold innovations pushing limits and creating positive impact for the community and the overall society.
Our background and experience together with our common values and vision for the fund are the core of our competitive advantage. Our team is eager to create value in the region and forthe region. We focus on Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stages

## SeedBlink
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

SeedBlink is a platform for startup investments. Invest in startups by having the benefits of crowdfunding, the flexibility of angel investors, and the VC structure.

## Gecad Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Payments

Our commitment, experience, and perseverance have fueled the creativity of some of the most exciting start-ups in Europe.

## ROCA Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2

ROCA Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on providing consumer services companies with flexible capital and operational resources to accelerate growth. It provides strategic and analytical support to its investments.
It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

## Catalyst Romania
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, EdTech

Catalyst Romania is a private equity and venture capital fund platform.

## PortfoLion Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Big Data

Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.

## Day One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

We are an early-stage technology investor, managing privately financed funds.  We seek to find and join the most exciting Central Eastern European teams on their global mission.

## Mapleblock Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.

## Elevator Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Software

Elevator Ventures - Corporate Venture Capital powered by Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI).

## Maven 11 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

## Neogen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Targu-mures, Mures, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2C

We're a venture studio specialised in marketplaces. We build, fund or buy tech companies with impact.

## Woodstock Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

We are a Thesis and Research driven fund, investing in early and growth stage Web 3.0 startups.

## Legion Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Software

Legion Ventures is at the epicenter of the blockchain tokenized revolution – connected with leaders, funds, influencers, governments, companies, technology, and trends that are key to success in this market. They are intimately familiar with the complexities of today’s economic convergence around blockchain, digital securities, crypto trading,tokenizing real-world assets, liquidity solutions, global regulation, investor and customer behavior patterns, and the complex web of relationships tying decentralized systems to a better world. This expertise allows us to build the right plan for each stage in your blockchain journey.A sound finance and marketing strategy, along with sharp vision are must-haves in order to disrupt or keep up with disruption in the blockchain tokenized ecosystem. Legion Ventures’ provides real-time tailored services in order to reach to an innovative ever-changing world of democratized data.

## Early Game Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Early Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups that create new industries and build the infrastructure for innovation in the emerging markets of Europe.

## Malin-Iulian Stefanescu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Software, Internet

Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father

## EDUCATIVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Colti, Giurgiu, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

EDUCATIVA is a group of social enterprises in the education space in Romania. The core of the group’s activities is helping young Romanians with personal development opportunities.

## 3TS Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

## 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.

## Xenofon Vodorouglou
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Xenofon Vodorouglou

## Electric Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.

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