# Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Romania in May 2026

## SeedBlink
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 24
- 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.

## Early Game Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 21
- 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.

## Gapminder VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 17
- 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

## Roca X
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

RocaX > Is building a solid and much needed bridge for startups between the support offered by business angels and the upper stage VCs. Learn more!

## Sparking Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Internet

Sparking Capital is a Business Angel, investing in early-stage startups. It focuses on pre-seed and seed investments to empower businesses.

## Gecad Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## 3TS Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Catalyst Romania
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, EdTech

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

## Malin-Iulian Stefanescu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Software, Internet

Business Angel, Entrepreneur, Father

## Day One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Marius Ghenea
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

•	Partner of Catalyst Romania VC Fund (part of 3TS Capital Partners) - http://catalystromania.ro/
•	“Investor of the Year in Romania 2016 and 2017" award by CESA with Catalyst Romania Fund
•	Serial entrepreneur and business-angel with successful investments in SEE, ranks in fortune Romanian surveys Capital, Forbes.
•	Experienceas an start-up entrepreneur with Flamingo, from zero revenues and capital to a $50M company, the largest IT product distribution network in Romania, in 7 years. Setting-up a Flamingo International group structure with direct operations in 7 SEE countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Yugoslavia) and one fully-fledged subsidiary in Holland, 1999 – 2001.
•	Manager of team of 500+ people with Flamingo, employees from various countries (majority Romanian), cultures, backgrounds and contributing to the creation of one of the best teams in the IT business in the Balkan region
•	Experience in private equity and venture capital investments. Deal-leader on 6 (123ContactForm, VectorWatch, Marketizator Friends, Intelligent IT/SmartBill, Smartdreamers, Vola.ro) out of 10 investments of Catalyst Romania Fund.
•	Exit track-record: VectorWatch, sold to FitBit early 2017, PCGarage, bought by Naspers/Emag in 2016; VikingProfil, bought by Pruzsinski of Poland, 2008, Flanco, successful exit in 2006, Flamingo, successful IPO in 2004, etc. •	Co-Founder VentureConnect (regional matchmaking platform for tech start-up entrepreneurs and early-stage investors); President Romanian Association for the Online Stores (ARMO)
•	Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Business Ventures Professor, Maastricht School of Management EMBA program
•	Co-organizer Schoolforstartups Romania, the first SE European entrepreneurship school
•	Author of “Entrepreneurship”, the first Romanian book on entrepreneurship and TV dragon in the Romanian Dragons’ Den

## Growceanu Angel Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

Growceanu is a group of business angels, active primarily in high-tech areas that contribute with money, professional and business expertise and personal connections to the development of tech startups with high potential of growth.

## Neogen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Targu-mures, Mures, Romania
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Credo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

## The Mavers
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

The Maversis a venture capital investment firm.

## European Union
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical Device

Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member countries; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.

## Bianca Rusu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cluj-napoca, Cluj, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Education

Entrepreneur & angel investor in disruptive startups building the future through technology.

## Alfabeat
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Internet

Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.

## D Moonshots
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Software

D Moonshots in an investment fund created by Sacha Dragic, founder of the Superbet group.

## LAUNCHub Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. 

## 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.

## Oliver Hehl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Apps

Oliver Hehl

## TechAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed

The Tech Business Angel Investors Group in Romania

## Inovo VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE

## Zeyshare Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, News, E-Commerce

Zeyshare Ventures provides venture capital investments in early & growth stage technology startups across Romania and the Central & South Eastern Europe region, as well as venture building services.
Zeyshare Ventures | venture capital & venture building

## Underline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Software, E-Commerce

Underline Ventures partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions

## Cleverage VentureCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS

Cleverage Venture Capital

## Simple Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Fitness, Software

Simple Capital

## Sherry Coutu
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Human Resources

Sherry Coutu is an angel investor and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.As an entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully sold two businesses in the financial services industry. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) has operations in more than 70 countries. The second was floated in 2000 on London and Nasdaqand the company was valued at more than $1 billion before being acquired (by AMP plc). Sherry is active in early stage investing and has raised several rounds of venture capital and public equity totaling more than $200 million.Sherry has decades of experience serving companies which range from fast growth private early stage to public and boards with turnover of more than Â£ 1 bn.She is a frequent public speaker, a national judge of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, and presents regularly at the top business schools. She specialises in consumer, internet, information services and clean energy.Current university affiliations include Cambridge University and Harvard Business School. Charitable / Government affiliations include the Prince's Trust, Cancer Research UK and NESTA.

## Daniel Dines
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dover, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Dines is Co-founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI software worldwide. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is tomake software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace -- a vision dubbed One Robot for Every Person.Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era, helping businesses of all sizes digitize everyday business operations and apply AI to drive true digital transformation. This era brings tremendous value to businesses and new career opportunities for people – which is why Dines aims to democratize RPA via free training and software, as well through UiPath’s Academic Alliance program, which trains and certifies university students, youth, and traditionally underrepresented groups – with an eye toward preparing people for the jobs of the future.Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth – delivering intelligent automation solutions to thousands of companies around the world, including government agencies and many of the Fortune 500. He has raised more than $1B from top-tier venture capital firms, with a post-money valuation of $7B.Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting the 250,000 developers who are building automations on UiPath’s RPA platform.

## Long Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Personalization

BRIDGING CAPITAL + INNOVATION IN THE US AND CHINA

## EarlyBird
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care

EarlyBird is a postal snacking service that delivers healthy snacks to its users’ doorstep. It provides its users with TasteBox, 5 healthy snacks and 2 unique teas, to help them through the working week. Its TasteBox also contains music and art from up and coming artists.
EarlyBird was launched in 2014 and is based in London, England.

## Marius Istrate
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Marius Istrate

## Axxess Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce

Investment Advisor of private equity fundsFunds under advisory contracts: Romanian-American Enterprise Fund, Balkan Accession Fund and Emerging Europe Accession FundMost extensive investment experience in the region (+15 years presence, + €250M equity invested)Lower mid-market specialists; Deals ranging from €5M to €15M; funds invested for a3-7 years termLargest team in SEE, comprising over 15 people, including investment professionals, finance specialists, legal advisers, and support staff.Blend of local and international perspective. Investment experience, expertise and contacts across relevant sectors and industriesFull time presence in Romania and Bulgaria

## 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.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

## Acequia Capital (AceCap)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

## Atlas Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

## MMC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Our mission is to be involved in the creation of the global industry-leading companies of tomorrow.

## Helvetia Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.

## EIT Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives.

## OTB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

OTB Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in technology with unique IP, links to the CEE region. OTB Ventures typically provides series A funding to empower and support talented entrepreneurs to scale their businesses, while keeping the focus on technology advancement.
It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland.

## Alex Hoye
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Advertising

Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University.

## Karma Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.

## Ana Cinca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Ana Cinca

## 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.

## Dawn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

## 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.

## Andra Malina Platon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Andra Malina Platon

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